Learning and Achievement: Accountability

School Performance

This box describes the school’s performance classification, which is determined by the following:

• the school’s overall index proficiency score (All Students) in both subjects
• whether or not the school hit all targets
• the progress made between last year’s scores and this year’s

There are 7 possible classifications:

• High Performing and Commended
• High Performing
• High Performing, with Caution
• Moderately Performing and Commended
• Moderately Performing
• Moderately Performing, with Caution
• Insufficient Progress

For details on how the classifications are determined, see How Rhode Island Classifies Schools.

The classification box also notes whether a school has been “identified for improvement” under the provisions of NCLB, and for how many years it has been in this status.

Here you would like to see a high classification for your school or an indication of progress.

Performance Progress

This graph shows the schoolwide index scores in English language arts and mathematics, plotted against the state scores, for the past five years.

Here, you would like to see that your school’s index scores are relatively high and improving. Therefore, you would like to see that the orange lines connecting the diamonds are high on the scale – above the state average, perhaps – and sloping upward.