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Report Card on TN Schools

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Navigating the Report Card

The Tennessee State Report Card is designed to allow educators, parents, and community members easy access to the information they need about schools across Tennessee. The Report Card can be navigated entirely with nine easy-to-read tabs at the top of each page. The tabs allow users to quickly access the exact data they are seeking about the state, an individual school district, or just a single school. The 2008 Report Card will include a new feature that allows visitors to jump between the 2008 results and the 2007 results using a drop-down menu at the top of each page.

Explanation of Nine Navigation Tabs:

Profile

The Profile section includes demographic data such as number of students, schools, teachers, and administrators. You will also find student demographics broken down by ethnicity, gender, economically disadvantaged, special education, and limited English proficient.  This section also contains the average per pupil expenditure information broken down by state, local, and federal funds.

NCLB (AYP)

Here you will find a chart showing which benchmarks under No Child Left Behind were met for the 2007-2008 school year. A Green ‘+’ is the symbol for meeting the goal; a red ‘X’ is the symbol for missing the goal. Below this chart is a link that reads ‘AYP Details Supporting this Summary.’ This link jumps to the exact data (test results, graduation rates, etc.) used to determine whether the benchmark was met or missed.

Achievement

The Achievement tab provides all of the test score data for the state, system or school. This includes test scores for all subject areas and the average ACT score. To view test score data broken down by ethnicity or sub group, click on the ‘Additional Academic Achievement Data’ button just below the tabs. You will be able to select the exact grade and subject area test that you would like to view results for.

Value-Added (TVAAS)

Value-Added data is a measurement of teacher effectiveness on student learning over the course of a single school year. Tennessee’s assessments track children from year to year to measure if they have learned a full year’s worth of material since the last test.

Attendance and Graduation

This tab provides attendance and promotion data for elementary schools. For high schools, you will find the graduation rate, dropout rates, and attendance and completion rates.

Discipline

This tab provides information on the number of suspensions and expulsions of students and is also provided by gender and by ethnicity.

Teacher

The Teacher tab provides information on highly qualified teachers in Tennessee, as defined by No Child Left Behind, and statistics about the educational attainment of teachers. This tab also details the number of waivers and permits.

Special Education

Coming soon.

Career and Technical Education

This tab details CTE course enrollment, CTE student demographics and CTE achievement indicators. Coming soon.