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Performance Report - How to Read Your School's 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 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 ADE, 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:
- Student Achievement
- School Performance
- Retention
- Safe and Orderly Environment
- Teacher Quality
- Choice
- School Funding
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 NORMES link under "View Performance Reports" on the Performance Report page, or click on the following link, which appears at the bottom of all pages in this section:
