That means that we want each student to increase in national percentile score from year to year. Parents will want to keep track of their students' test scores while they are at Summit and should confer with the school if growth is not evident. In addition, Summit intends for its most of its students to have actual scores higher than anticipated scores after students have been at Summit for more than one year. If your student is above the 90th national percentile, it means the grade-level CTBS is not the best tool to measure his or her academic growth. For such students, we plan to offer additional higher-level assessments to better measure academic growth.
Information is available in the counseling office.
This is the difference between the actual and anticipated performance of an average student at the school. A positive difference indicates value added. The anticipated difference score will not be very meaningful for Summit this year because 1996-97 was its first year of operation. Another possible use of the data is to help parents select schools under the State's open-enrollment law. Some parents might wish to consider, in addition to anticipated differences, a school's average level of achievement compared to that of their own student.