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The NJDOE provides many resources to help understand and use the School Performance Reports.
Using and Understanding the School Performance Reports
Guides to Start Conversations
Resources for Districts
- Sample superintendent letter
- Template that can be sent to communities announcing the release of the reports
- PowerPoint template
- Optional presentation template for sharing school and district data
- Data Sources Spreadsheet
- Spreadsheet explaining the source of all data in the reports
- School Performance Reports: Data Quality Guidance
- Guidance to improve data quality in School Performance Reports
Graduation Rate Resources
- Understanding Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rates
- Overview of adjusted cohort graduation rates with examples
- Introduction to the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (Coming soon!)
- Detailed guide explaining how graduation rates are calculated
- Graduation Frequently Asked Questions (Coming soon!)
- Commonly asked questions about calculating and reporting graduation rates
- Graduation Data Quality Checklist (Coming soon!)
- List of ways to review and check district graduation data
- ESSA Federal Guidance
- Federal non-regulatory guidance from January 2017
Median Student Growth Percentile Resources
- Understanding Median Student Growth Percentiles
- Overview of student growth percentiles with examples
- An Overview of Student Growth Percentiles
- Overview of student growth percentiles from the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessments (NCIEA)
- A Technical Overview of the Student Growth Percentile Methodology
- Technical paper providing a detailed explanation of the statistical methodology used to calculate student growth percentiles
Chronic Absenteeism Resources
- Reporting Student Attendance and Determining Chronic Absenteeism Rates
- Guide explaining how attendance is reported and calculated
Accountability Resources
The Title I Accountability webpage has multiple resources available related to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) accountability data in the School Performance Reports, including the annual ESSA Profile Companion Guide and Technical Guide to Summative Ratings and Identification of Schools.