What is the SQRP?

The School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP) is the Board of Education’s policy for evaluating school performance.

It establishes the indicators of school performance and growth and the benchmarks against which a school’s success will be evaluated on an annual basis.

Through this policy, each school will receive a School Quality Rating and an Accountability Status.

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Purpose

The School Quality Rating and Accountability Status serve the following purposes:

Communicating to parents and community members about the academic success of individual schools and the district as a whole;

Recognizing high achieving and high growth schools and identifying best practices;

Providing a framework for goal-setting for schools;

Identifying schools in need of targeted or intensive support; and

Guiding the Board’s decision-making processes around school actions and turnarounds.

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Key changes in new policy

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• Metrics centered on assessments, attendance, and progress towards graduation

• Three levels of school performance

• Evaluates Option schools using traditional high school metrics

• ISAT is the main elementary assessment

• Uses CPS historical benchmarks

• Does not account for test participation

• Metrics better aligned to district’s strategic action plan, e.g., college enrollment, persistence, priority student group growth, 5Essentials

• Five-tier rating to more effectively differentiate schools

• New Option School model more targeted to the students served

• Significant changes to ISAT in next few years makes it unstable for year to year comparisons; replace with NWEA MAP

• Performance benchmarks are tied to national standards where possible

• Target test participation rate of 95%

“Old” Performance Policy SY14-15 School Quality Rating Policy

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School Quality Rating Policy: Metric Weights

Metric Weight

Student Growth on NWEA MAP 25%

Student Attendance 20%

Growth of Priority Groups on NWEA MAP 10%

Percentage of Students Making National Average Growth on NWEA

10%

5Essentials Survey 10%

Student Attainment on NWEA MAP (Grades 3-8) 10%

Student Attainment on NWEA MAP (Grade 2) 5%

ELL Language Development Growth on ACCESS 5%

Data Quality 5%

Metric Weight

Student Growth on EPAS 20%

Growth of Priority Groups on EPAS 10%

Student Attainment on EPAS 10%

Student Attendance 10%

Freshman On-Track Rate 10%

4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate 10%

Early College / Career Credentials 5%

1-Year Dropout Rate 5%

College Enrollment 5%

College Persistence 5%

5Essentials Survey 5%

Data Quality 5%

Metric Weight

Percentage of Students Meeting / Exceeding National Growth on STAR

30%

Average Student Growth Percentile on STAR 20%

1-Year Graduation Rate 15%

Stabilization Rate 10%

Student Attendance 10%

Growth in Attendance 10%

Credit Attainment 5%

Elementary Schools High Schools Option Schools

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HUGE DIFFERENCE ….. LOOK BELOW

9th, 10th, and 11th GRADE SCORES ARE INCLUDED

What Does the School’s Status Mean?

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Good StandingTiers 1-3

Provisional Support*Tier 4

Intensive Support**Tier 5

These schools are meeting or exceeding the minimum performance expectations for CPS schools.

While these schools are still bound by federal and state law and CPS policies, they have some autonomy around school improvement planning and budgets. LSCs approve CIWPs in these schools.

These schools are in need of targeted support to keep them moving in the right direction. The CEO may require the following:

• Drafting a new CIWP• Directing the implementation

of the CIWP• Providing additional training

for the LSC• Mediating disputes or other

obstacles to improvement

If the CEO determines the problems are not able to be remediated by the above methods, the CEO may place the school in Intensive Support.

These schools are in need of intensive support to quickly improve the quality of education for students. In addition to the types of support provided under “Provisional Support”, the following actions may be taken*:

• Replacing the principal• School turnaround• Ordering new LSC elections• Closure

*These actions are allowable under Illinois School Code, but will not necessarily happen in all “Intensive Support” schools. A hearing and a Board vote are required for these actions.

* Listed in state code as “Remediation”** Listed in state code as “Probation”