The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has been identifying “underperforming” (formerly Level Four) and “chronically underperforming” (formerly Level Five) schools since 2010. Sixty-five schools have been designated as “underperforming” and were required to develop and implement a “Turnaround
The schools may need help, but what happens to the teachers? The teacher turnover rate represents the percentage of teachers who were working at the school in a given year who did not return in the next school year. Teacher
How can five students sink the ranking for an entire school? Our Real School is in the 59th percentile of all schools, met 75 percent of targets and has a graduation rate of 93.2 percent. For 2018 MCAS, 98 percent
The 2018 district accountability system identified 233 Massachusetts public schools as falling into the category of “Requiring Focused/Targeted Support.” Schools may be labeled as “Requiring Focused/Targeted Support” for (a) falling into the lowest 10% of schools in student performance on
Requiring Assistance or Intervention Designations The 2018 school accountability designations are based on the new system created to meet requirements of both ESSA and Massachusetts statute. This new system using a different set of accountability indicators but is still largely
