AAnnual Assessment Report

Background Information:

The Annual Assessment Report is a compilation of data provided to school board members and the public annually.

The state of Alaska changed assessments to the Performance Evaluation of Alaska’s Students (PEAKS) for the spring 2017 administration. Due to Covid, no state assessment (PEAKs) was administered spring of 2019-2020 school year. School ratings remainded status quo.

The state has submitted their ESSA addendum for rating of schools criteria to the federal Department of Education for review.

The proposed indicator and calculation changes for school rating system for FY21:

1. For academic achievement indicator they will aggregate up to 4 years instead of 3 years for school’s who’s n is too small to be counted
2. Academic Growth will not be calculable since there is no FY20 PEAKs data.
   
   1. If TSI schools are not required to be identified fall 21 then deed will skip year calculate (fy19 to fy21)
   2. If TSI schools are required to be identified fall 21 then deed will skip year calculate (fy19 to fy21) but will exclude from index score and redistribute weighting proportionally (20% Ela and 20% math) ---this is what they do now for schools with too small and n.
   3. In both scenarios, student would need to still be in the same school and have naturally progressed 2 grades to be counted (3^rd grade to 5^th).
3. School Quality or Student Success indicator:
   
   1. Currently, K-6 is 3^rd grade ELA Achievement (proficiency) weighted at 5% and Chronic Absenteeism weighted at 10%. The Chronic Absenteeism’s 10% would be redistributed to 3^rd grade ELA Achievement.
   2. Currently, 7-12 is Chronic Absenteeism 10%. The Chronic Absenteeism 10% would be changed to 9^th Grade on Track.
      
      1. 9^th Grade on Track: student must be enrolled for at least half the total number of student days at the school, be a first time 9^th grader, and complete ¼ of the credits required for graduation in their district as collected in Summer Oasis.

Other proposed changes:

1. Annual Meaningful Differentiation will become a range indicator instead of the current index to two decimals. 0-24.99, 25-49.99, 50-74.99, 75-100. Individual index’s will still be recoverable because the federal requirement identifies the lowest 5% as in improvement.
2. Addendum will shift identifications forward a year. So next year should have been re-identification (who gets the three year improvement grants). So if approved, Connections, Nikiski MS/HS, Alt and Flex will get an additional year of improvement grants without being re-identified. (flex may not because they were an exception in all the previous changes anyway)
3. Proposed change to Exiting Improvement within 3 years would basically not count 2019-2020 year.

KPBSD submitted input on the proposed addendum.

It is important to remember that the state assessment is just one of several data points used by the district to measure student, school, and district progress and performance.

The attached report provides the assessment data points and other data points used by the district as part of our comprehensive system of assessment and support: Aims Web, MAPs, ACT, SAT, EL data, Graduation data, Drop Out data, other.