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FOCUS IS ON 7TH GRADE...this time!
Growth Ratio: Reading (0.46) Math (0.47)

Targets: Reading (56%) Math (54%)

Attainment: Attainment: Reading (58% on college ready or above) Math (49% on college ready or above), Tier 2 or below grade level Math (23%) and Reading (12%)

Math Attainment and Reading Attainment goes up every year from 6th - 8th grade

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Growth Ratio:  Julian is .12 behind Brooks in Reading Growth Ratio.

Targets:  A larger percentage of students in 8th grade are meeting their targets for Math than Reading.

Attainment: More 8th Grade students are at PCR in Reading than in Math.

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Growth Ratio: Let's look at why 8th grade Growth Ratio and attainment don't jive.

Targets: Perhaps a large number of 8th graders are already at PCR in reading and not showing enough improvement to effect the overall Growth.

Attainment: Perhaps because math is more concrete (less social cues, cultural difference, etc.) there is a greater chance for growth among students who are below level to improve.

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Growth Ratio:  .37 reading, .35 math

Targets: .50 Reading, .50 Math

Attainment:  Numbers increase from 6th through 8th in math.  Stays consistent in reading.

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Growth Ratio: We need to make a bigger deal about MAP testing and limit other activities going on on team

Targets:  IEP student met growth ration goal, african american and free and reduced lunch need focus

Attainment:  Focus attention on MAP testing, make it a bigger deal in school.  Focus some instruction on testing skills.   We do not seem to have good interventions in place for tier 2 and tier 3 students.  The overall numbers do not seem to change for those groups over the years.

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Growth Ratio:  .37 reading, .35 math

Targets: 50% reading, 48% math

Attainment: reading attainment is higher than math

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Growth Ratio: we have a number of different backgrounds (elementary schools) which produce students who come to us at different levels and we must standardize our students and adjust our expectations accordingly

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Attainment: our students could benefit from a study skills/test taking class.  Summer prep?  After school?  Integrated Studies?

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Growth Ratio: Big drop from 5th to 6th grade, but then build from there to get to 8th grade

Targets: Students with IEP's hitting targets almost as much as those without

Attainment: Free/Reduced lunch shows a strong correlation to low student attainment.

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Targets: We would like to see the data broken down even further. Some students may be counted in multiple subgroups.

Attainment: Students with free reduced lunch, and IEP need the higest levels of support

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Growth Ratio: Reading (0.46) Math (0.47)

Targets: Reading (56%) Math (54%)

Attainment: Reading (58% on college ready or above) Math (49% on college ready or above), Tier 2 or below grade level Math (23%) and Reading (12%)

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Growth Ratio: Elementary schools seem to place more emphasis on reading and middle schools more on math. More focus on support or programs to assist lower socio-economic students and black students.

Targets: Might be harder for students with higher scores to meet projected growth target. Although growth ratios for lower socio-economic students and black students were lower as a whole those demographic groups achieved similar growth target percentages compared to other groups. Essentially they are growing at the same percentage as other demographic groups.

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Growth Ratio:
Julian and Brooks are on target for math but not reading. Brooks is slightly higher than Julian.

Huge drop between 5th and 6th grade, but students make progress throughout middle school. Students meet growth targets in 8th grade.

Targets:
Targets are met increasingly throughout elementary school, but there's a huge drop between elementary school and middle school. IEP students have similar target growth as non-IEP students. Black student group is the only group below 50% in MAP growth/target.

Attainment:
Tier 3 students achieve the most MAP math attainment growth in 7th grade. Tier 2 and Below Grade Level have gradual growth throughout the years, while Tier 3 is all over the place throughout the years. For Reading, the Below Grade Level attainment level decreases throughout the years.

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There is a drop in reading scores once they get to the middle schools, while there is a jump in math. Math is tracked, but there is no tracking/clustering for students' reading in the middle schools. Could we "track"/cluster students using their MAP reading scores? During one school year, we used to look at our classes and make sure that attainment groups were not too spread apart in classes (three attainment groups at most in classes). Could that possibly allow reading/humanities teachers to teach reading skills, targets, etc. that are more targeted for these groups?

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Growth Ratio:
-Math growth ratio is higher in middle schools than reading growth ratio
-Elementary schools show the opposite: reading growth ratios are higher than math (substantially higher)
-6th grade shows the least growth ratio overall; 8th grade shows a great change in growth ratio
-Black students in the district are growing the least in both Reading and Math, but Math is higher than Reading.
-IEP vs. no IEP growth ratios is basically the same across the district

Targets:
-District: almost all are over half or more.
-6th-8th grade: 8th grade Math is the highest.

Attainment:
-18% in the District are not at Attainment for Reading and 28% for Math.
-Black students at Julian are 48% Reading and 69% for Math.

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Growth Ratio:
-Kids are struggling in both Math and Reading.

Targets:
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Attainment:
-The achievement gap in our district is delineated along racial lines.
-Heterogeneous grouping is better for students' psyches.
-It is hard to compare reading and math when they are taught differently.
-Advocacy for "moving up" is a problem...
-What is the argument about Math being tracked and LA not being tracked? LA classes are differentiating in every class while Math doesn't need to as much, and then this tracking drives the rest of the team schedule.

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Growth Ratio:
Julian is on-target for math, off target for reading. For 8th grade, both reading and math are on target. There is a steady increase in MAP scores from 5th, 6th, 7th to 8th grade (because they seem to start conspicuously low).
Julian's reading is well below the district average growth ratio. Both still are on track.
There is more discrepancy in reading between certain demographic groups. The IEP students are making virtually the same growth ratio as non-IEP students.
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There's more attainment in Reading at Julian.

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Growth Ratio:
8th grade learned about complex numbers this year, so that unit helped specifically with the Winter MAP.
The MAP attainment for math is perhaps lower because there are no specific interventions as there are for reading.
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Growth Ratio: Slide 3 shows that the growth ratio goes up at each grade level in each subject (6th - 8th)

Targets: There is an upper trajectory of students hitting their targets in 6th through 8th grade.

Attainment: Over 70% of our students are at grade level or above
in each subject.

Assumptions/Suggestions
Growth Ratio:   Leveled classes in math may help with growth.

Targets:  The curriculum is more aligned.

Attainment: Students are building on their experiences from one year to the next; what can we do to increase this statistic?

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Growth Ratio: 0.54 reading/0.84 math in 8th grade.

Targets: Black and free and reduced are the lowest.  47% (reading) and 44% are not meeting MAP growth targets.

Attainment: 24% have not met math attainment in 8th grade.  18% have not met reading attainment in 8th grade.  69% of Blacks in our district did not meet their math attainment goals and 48% in reading.

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Growth Ratio: Tracked classes for math may assist in the elevated numbers.

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Growth Ratio: Growth ratios among African Americans are lowest and Asians are highest.  Growth ratios are highest among 8th graders, lower among 7th graders and lowest among 6th graders.  Growth radios are similar between reading & math for 6th & 7th grade.  Growth ratios are much higher for 8th grade math.  As a school, our growth ratios are approx. .85 for math.  They are near .5 for reading.
Targets: As a school, only half of our students are meeting growth targets.  8th grade math is the only area that is exceeding half students meeting growth target.  There is not much variability in achievement of target based on ethnicity or free & reduced lunch.

Attainment:
60% of our students are at least college ready in reading.
52% of our students are at least college ready in math.
There is a greater percentage of 8th graders who are at grade level or above than 6th & 7th.l

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