User's Guide: School Report – Page 2

Additional School Indicators

What you are looking at

You can see the number or percentage for each indicator at the school, district, and state levels.

What you are looking for

You are looking to get a sense of what the school feels like to its inhabitants - its tensions, its stability, its cooperative attitude, its safety, etc.

Indicator measures and definitions

SALT survey teacher response rate
The percentage of the total number of eligible teachers in this school who responded to the 2003 SALT Survey

SALT survey student response rate
The percentage of the total number of students in this school who responded to the 2003 SALT Survey

SALT survey parent response rate
The percentage of students in the school whose parents responded to the 2003 SALT Survey.

Dropout Rate (high-school reports only)
The percentage of students who dropped out of the 2003 graduating class from the time that class entered the high school

Stability
This indicator shows the proportion of the total student enrollment who entered the school at the beginning of the year and stayed through the end.

Mobility
This indicator shows the rate of student turnover, or the percentage of students who moved into or out of the school during the school year as compared to fall enrollments.

Please note: The stability and mobility indicators measure different phenomena and are not inverses of one another. The mobility index measures the rate of flow through the non-stable portion of the student body. Together, the two indicators describe the degree of turnover in the school and its potential effect on the classroom environment.

Suspensions
The number of students who have been temporarily dismissed from school, received an in-school suspension or sent to an alternative placement, followed by the total number of students in the building. More detail is provided on page four of the school reports.

Grievances
The number of grievances filed by teachers in the building in 2001-02, alongside the number of grievances filed by teachers in the district and the number statewide at this school level (elementary, middle, or high school).

Teacher Attendance
The teacher attendance rate reflects the percentage of time the average full-time teacher was present within the 180-day school year. This number was calculated using the number of "sick days" that accounted for teacher absences. The attendance rate is also reported for the district and for the state, by school level (elementary, middle, or high school).

Teachers with emergency/special provisional certification
Teachers who do not qualify for state certification may be granted an emergency certification; districts may hire these teachers only if they cannot hire a teacher with a provisional (first three years of teaching) or professional certification. Teachers who qualify for provisional certification but have not passed the Core Battery of the National Teachers Exam may receive a special provisional certification.