Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 3 - School Performance Score Component › Section XI-301 - School Performance Score Goal [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.301]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. A school
				  performance score (SPS) shall be calculated for each school. This score shall
				  range from 0.0 to 150.0.
B. Each
				  school shall receive its school performance scores under one site code
				  regardless of its grade structure.
C. Final accountability results shall be
				  issued by the fall semester of each year and all accountability reports will
				  reflect the configuration of the school as it existed the prior spring
				  semester.
1. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school
				  year (2018 SPS), the school performance score for K-7 schools will include an
				  assessment index and a progress index. An interests and opportunities indicator
				  will be included in school performance scores no later than the 2019-2020
				  school year (2020 SPS).
2.
				  Beginning in 2017-2018 (2018 SPS), the school performance score for K-8 schools
				  will include an assessment index, progress index, and dropout/credit
				  accumulation index. The interests and opportunities indicator will be included
				  in school performance scores no later than 2019-2020 school year (2020 SPS).
K-8 School Performance Score
								Indices and Weights
Index
Grades
Beginning in 2017-18
No Later than 2019-20
3-8 and high school LEAP 2025, Innovative
								Assessment, LEAP Connect, and ELPT* and ELPT Connect*
Grades K-7
75 percent
70 percent
Grades K-8
70 percent
65 percent
Progress Index
Grades K-8
25 percent
25 percent
Dropout/Credit Accumulation Index
Grade 8
5 percent
5 percent
Interests and Opportunities
Grades K-8
NA
5 percent
*Beginning in 2023-2024
3. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year
				  (2018 SPS), the school performance score for schools with a grade 12 will
				  include five indicators as outlined in the table below. The interests and
				  opportunities indicator will be included in school performance scores no later
				  than 2019-2020 school year (2020 SPS).
High School Performance Score
								Indices and Weights
Index
Grades
Beginning in 2017-2018
No Later than 2019-2020
High school LEAP 2025, LEAP Connect, and ELPT* and
								ELPT Connect*
Grades 9-12
12.5 percent
12.5 percent
Progress Index
Grades 9-12
12.5 percent
12.5 percent
ACT/Work Keys**
Grade 12 and graduating students with last
								enrollment as grade 11
25 percent
25 percent
Strength of Diploma Index
Grade 12
25 percent
25 percent
Cohort Graduation Rate
Grade 12
25 percent
20 percent
Interests and Opportunities
Grades 9-12
NA
5 percent
*Beginning in 2023-2024
** When calculating a school's ACT index score, students
					 participating in the LEAP Connect assessment shall not be included in the
					 denominator of such calculation unless the students take the ACT.
4. For the 2020-2021 school year,
				  when calculating the 2021 school performance scores (SPS), if the interests and
				  opportunities measure results in a lower SPS than a school would earn using the
				  2018-2019 weights, then the SPS will be calculated without the interests and
				  opportunities measure using the 2018-2019 weights.
5. A combination school (a school with a
				  grade configuration that includes a combination from both categories of
				  schools, K-8 and 9-12), will receive a score from a weighted average of the SPS
				  from the K-8 grades and the SPS from the 9-12 grades.
a. The K-8 SPS will be weighted by the number
				  of students eligible to test during the spring test administration.
b. The 9-12 SPS will be weighted by the sum
				  of:
i. assessment units from students who are
				  initial testers for high school LEAP 2025 plus the students eligible to test
				  ACT (students with high school LEAP 2025 and ACT will count only one
				  time);
ii. cohort graduation units
				  from the number of members of the cohort used as the denominator in the
				  graduation index calculation and the graduation rate (Students in cohort will
				  count only one time.).
6. For schools with configurations that
				  include grades 9-11, but do not have a grade 12, the school performance score
				  will consist of the indices available.