S.D. Admin. R. 24:55:01:01

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024

Section 24:55:01:01 - Definitions

Terms used in this article mean:

(1) "Academic indicators," at the presecondary level shall consist of the student achievement, academic growth, and English language proficiency key indicators; at the secondary level, shall consist of the student achievement, graduation rate, college and career readiness, and English language proficiency key indicators;

(2) "Accreditation," certification by the secretary that a school system meets the adopted standards of the state board for a specified school fiscal year;

(3) "Alternative school," programs outside of the traditional setting whereby students receive instruction as an extension of the regular or traditional school environment;

(4) "Attendance, day of," a day in which an enrolled person is present under the guidance and direction of a teacher for the minimum length of time that school is in session;

(5) "Attendance rate," the percentage of students meeting the ninety percent target attendance percentage as referenced in § 24:55:02:07;

(6) "Below proficient level," scoring level one or two on the state academic assessment;

(7) "Confidence interval," a group of continuous or discrete adjacent values that is used to estimate a statistical parameter (as a mean or variance) and that tends to include the true value of the parameter a predetermined proportion of the time if the process of finding the group of values is repeated a number of times;

(8) "Department," Department of Education;

(9) "Dropout," a student who:

(a) Was enrolled in school at some time during the school year and was expected to be enrolled the following year but was not enrolled;

(b) Has not graduated from high school or completed a state or district approved educational program; and

(c) Has not met any of the following exclusionary conditions:

(i) Transfer to another public school district, private school, or state or district-approved educational program;

(ii) Temporary school-recognized absence due to suspension or illness; or

(iii) Death;

(10) "Dual enrollment," the enrollment of a student in a kindergarten through twelfth grade program in two or more school systems at the same time;

(11) "Economically disadvantaged," students who qualify for free and reduced lunch status;

(12) "English learner," as that term is defined in 20 U.S.C. § 7801(20) (2015);

(13) "Enrollment," for accountability purposes, the total number of students who are enrolled in a public school for greater than fifty percent of a school day;

(14) "ESEA," the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq., effective December 10, 2015;

(15) "Grade," that portion of a school program that represents the work of one regular school term, identified by a designation such as kindergarten, grade one, or grade ten;

(16) "Graduation rate," the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate for students who attended at least 50 percent of the last year of enrollment at the same attendance center or who did not attend at least 50 percent of the last year of enrollment at the same attendance center but attended a given attendance center for the longest period in which they were enrolled in a South Dakota secondary school, as defined in Title I, Part A, of the ESEA, 20 U.S.C. § 8101(25) (December 10, 2015);

(17) "High school completion rate," the number of students who attended at least 50 percent of the last year of enrollment at the same attendance center or who did not attend at least 50 percent of the last year of enrollment at the same attendance center but attended a given attendance center for the longest period in which they were enrolled in a South Dakota secondary school, who, in the most recently completed school year, have attained a regular high school diploma or a high school equivalency, divided by the total number of students who dropped out or attained a regular high school diploma or a high school equivalency;

(18) "Key indicators," the key indicators of public school performance in §§ 24:55:02:03 and 24:55:02:05;

(19) "Proficient level," scoring level three or four on the state academic assessment;

(20) "School district," a public school district as defined in SDCL 13-5-1;

(21) "School level," the designation of two separate and distinct levels for determining public school performance under the SPI, with those levels being the presecondary school level and the secondary school level;

(22) "School, presecondary," the elementary, middle, and junior high school levels;

(23) "School, secondary," a school consisting of any combination of three or more consecutive grades, including ninth grade through twelfth grade;

(24) "School term," "school year," the school term as defined in SDCL 13-26-1 and 1326-2;

(25) "Secretary," the secretary of the Department of Education;

(26) "School performance index," 100-point scale consisting of multiple indicators, each assigned a numeric value and is utilized to inform school leaders, teachers, and the public as to how schools are progressing;

(27) "School performance index key indicator score," the score assigned to each key indicator at each school level;

(28) "State academic assessment," the academic achievement test in English language arts and mathematics annually administered to all students in grades three to eight, inclusive, and in grade eleven as defined in SDCL 13-3-55;

(29) "Student," an individual for whom instruction is provided in an educational program under the jurisdiction of a public school district;

(30) "Student growth," a change in student achievement between two or more points in time;

(31) "Student growth percentile," a measure of student growth whereby the change in a student's performance on the state academic assessment over two or more years is compared with students across the state who have similar score histories on the state academic assessment;

(32) "Students with disabilities," as defined in § 24:05:24.01:01;

(33) "Tier one growth," performance that within three years is not projected to allow a student to reach the proficient level but achieves a student growth percentile of seventy or more;

(34) "Tier two growth," performance that is projected to maintain the proficient level on the state academic assessment over three years;

(35) "Tier three growth," performance that is projected to reach the proficient level on the state academic assessment within three years;

(36) "Title I school," "Title I district," a public school or public school district that receives funds under Title I, Part A and 34 C.F.R. Part 200 (July 1, 2014);

(37) "Total school performance index score," the sum of all school performance index key indicator scores, with a maximum of 100 points allowed at each school level per school year; and

S.D. Admin. R. 24:55:01:01

39 SDR 51, effective 10/3/2012; 40 SDR 40, effective 9/11/2013; 41 SDR 37, effective 9/4/2014; 41 SDR218, effective 7/1/2015; 42 SDR 98, effective 1/7/2016; 42 SDR 182, effective 6/27/2016; 44 SDR 95, effective 12/6/2017; 44 SDR 192, effective 7/2/2018; 49 SDR 035, effective 10/10/2022

General Authority: SDCL 13-3-69.

Law Implemented: SDCL 13-3-62, 13-3-69.