The purpose of the Great Falls Public Schools Profile is to provide meaningful information that is designed to help the School Board, staff and public understand and evaluate how well our schools are doing. The Ten Indicators that have been selected to describe the District's effectiveness are modeled after the State Education Profile developed by the Montana Office of Public Instruction.
Meaningful assessment starts with a baseline from which to make comparisons.
In some cases, we've compared ourselves with the state and the nation. In other cases, we've compared ourselves from one year to the next. Of the two methods, the latter is probably better as it compares Great Falls students to Great Falls students. Walking the fine line between what to include and what to leave out of this profile has been a struggle. But, we've begun the process and plan to improve each year.