Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2019 Report
Author: Palacios, Moses
Date: 2019-12-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Educational Indicators,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,Academic Achievement,Enrollment,Academic Failure,Grade Point Average,Kindergarten,Grade 4,Grade 8,Grade 9,Secondary School Mathematics,Mathematics Achievement,Scores,Graduation Rate,Attendance,Discipline,Suspension,National Competency Tests,Urban Schools,Preschool Education,Reading Achievement,Advanced Placement Programs

Over the years, the nation's large urban school districts have consistently learned from the progress of their peer districts across the country. In 2002, the board of directors of the Council of the Great City Schools (Council) authorized what became known as the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project to develop and implement key performance indicators across the member school districts in operations, business services, finances, human resources, and technology. These performance indicators in operations have evolved over the years and are now reported annually by the Council in its &quot;Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools&quot; series. Because of that information gap, the board of directors took the next step in authorizing the development of &quot;Academic&quot; Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in October 2014. To put the board's wishes into place, teams of educators from Council member districts came together to begin drafting initial indicators in general instruction, special education, English language learners, and a number of academic cost indicators. Based on the pilot, data-collection surveys and the indicators themselves were further refined, and all Council member districts were asked to participate in a full-scale pilot of the Academic Key Performance Indicators in 2016. A third pilot was conducted in 2017 and included the collection of data across three school years. The 2019 report presents an updated set of data through school year 2017-18. This report presents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. This report focuses on the data collection and analysis of the following Academic KPIs: (1) Pre-K enrollment relative to Kindergarten enrollment; (2) Percent of 4th and 8th graders proficient in reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); (3) Algebra I completion rates for credit by grade 9; (4) Ninth grade course failure rates -at least one core course; (5) Ninth graders with B average (GPA) or better; (6) Absentee rates by grade level; (7) Suspension rates; (8) Instructional days missed per 100 students due to suspensions; (9) AP participation rates; (10) AP-equivalent participation rates; (11) AP exam pass rates; (12) Four-year graduation rate; (13) National Assessment of Educational Progress Achievement, 2019; and (14) National Assessment of Educational Progress Trends, 2009 to 2019. This report illustrates the current use of the performance indicators as viable measures of student achievement outcomes across all member districts. [For the 2018 report, see ED593592.]