How to Read Your School’s 2007 Arkansas School Performance Report
The purpose of the Arkansas School Performance Report is to generally improve public school accountability, to provide benchmarks for measuring individual school improvement, and to empower parents and guardians of children enrolled in Arkansas public schools by providing them with the information to judge the quality of their schools. The Arkansas Department of Education annually publishes a school performance report for each individual public school in the state, and distributes the report to every parent or guardian of a child in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) in the public schools of Arkansas.
The annual school performance report is based on reliable statistical information uniformly required to be collected and submitted by each local school district to the department, published in a format that can be easily understood by parents or guardians who are not professional educators, and distributed to the parents or guardians of children enrolled in the public schools via the postal service. Individual school reports are also made available via the Internet.
Statistical information in the Arkansas School Performance Report is organized into the following seven essential accountability indicators:
- ACHIEVEMENT
- ACCESS
- RETENTION
- DISCIPLINE
- DEMOGRAPHICS
- CHOICE
- ECONOMIC
To view descriptions of the seven essential accountability indicators, click on Accountability Indicators on the left side of any page in the Arkansas School Performance Report section of this Web site.
To view achievement data, enrollment, annual accreditation status, attendance rate, dropout rate, graduation rate, grade inflation rate, college remediation rate, student retention, discipline information, teacher quality, school board member training, school choice and economic information, click on the link under "View Performance Reports" on the main Performance Report page, or click on the following link, which appears at the bottom of the other pages in this section:
 View the Report Card
This will take you to the select page where you can select a statewide summary, a district summary or a school report. Click on the down arrow to the right of the selection box to choose a school and click on Submit. This will pull up information on the selected school. You can also pull up data for previous years.
To view frequently asked questions, click on the Frequently Asked Questions link on the left side of the page. This section provides answers to frequently asked questions concerning the 2007 Arkansas School Performance Reports. The user should find answers regarding the content of the report, sources of data, how data was disaggregated and definitions.
To view the table of contents and definitions of the terms used in the Arkansas School Performance Report, click on the Understanding the Report link on the left side of the page. This will open a PDF file, for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
View the Report Card |
