Students are asked to show competence through presentations, exhibitions, performances, and standardized and criterion-referenced tests. Students' writing folders follow them throughout middle school and are sent with them to the high school. Many adults are available to help students reach the standards if they need help. The district has not used the same test across the past few years, so it is difficult to get longitudinal data. The school's analysis shows that it does a nice job of improving academic performance across the three years the students are in the school.
Teachers meet and go over students' scores to interpret the data.
By hand, they pull out information about each child not meeting state goals and they put supports in for each child. As a result, the school knows it has discrepancies between the scores of Caucasian and African American students that it needs to attend to. The district will have the capability to perform disaggregation of standardized test data in the 1999-00 school year. The school is adopting two different math programs at all three grade levels in order to provide a more rigorous, algebraic focus and additional real-life applications. Connected math will be one of the adoptions, which the school hopes will raise all students' math performance.