La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXXXIII-701

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LXXXIII-701 - Subgroup Component Indicators

A. Each school shall be evaluated on the subgroup component. A school shall pass the subgroup component provided that each subgroup of students meets the subgroup component, and the school, as a whole, meets the criteria for status or improvement on the additional academic indicator.

1. Passing the subgroup component:

a. Participation rate test-95 percent of the students within the subgroup participated in the standards-based assessments during the current year, during the current and previous year averaged, or during the current and previous two years averaged; and

b. Annual Measurable Objective status test (AMO status test)-the subgroup percent proficient score is at/or above the annual measurable objective in ELA and mathematics; or

c. Safe Harbor Test-

i. the percentage of non-proficient students within the subgroup reduced by at least 10 percent of the previous year's value; and

ii. The subgroup improved or met the criterion on the additional academic indicator (attendance rate for K-11 schools, and non-dropout rate through 2006 and graduation rate beginning in 2007 for schools with a twelfth grade).

d. Beginning with the fall 2010, the additional academic indicator for schools with a twelfth grade shall be evaluated using new procedures as required by the U. S. Department of Education published in High School Graduation Rate: Non-Regulatory Guidance (December 22, 2008).

2. 2002-03 will be year one of judging schools based on the subgroup component.

3. 2003-04 will be year two of judging schools based on the subgroup component.

4. For the non-proficient reduction portion of the safe harbor test, a comparison of current year assessment data to the previous year assessment data shall be used. For the additional academic indicator check for the safe harbor test and for the whole school check, attendance and dropout data from two years prior will be compared to data from three years prior. Beginning in 2007, a graduation rate shall replace use of the dropout data for the additional academic indicator.

5. To ensure high levels of reliability, Louisiana will apply a 99 percent confidence interval to the calculations of subgroup component determinations for the:

a. AMO status test;

b. reduction of non-proficient students (safe harbor test); and

c. additional academic indicator status analyses.

6. Louisiana will not apply a confidence interval to improvement analyses for the additional academic indicator.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXXXIII-701

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 29:2742 (December 2003), amended LR 30:2445 (November 2004), LR 32:1025 (June 2006), LR 36:2842 (December 2010).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:10.1.