North Carolina Superintendent Mark
Johnson announced today that school report cards for all public schools in the
state are now available with 2016-17 data at schoolreportcards.nc.gov, a
completely redesigned, user-friendly website.
North Carolina’s school report
cards are an important resource for parents, educators, state leaders,
researchers, and others, providing information about school- and district-level
data in a number of areas. These include student performance and academic
growth, school and student characteristics, and many other details.
“The brand-new website, schoolreportcards.nc.gov, is a
resource for parents and educators that provides the transparency they need
into the characteristics and performance of our public schools in an easy-to-use
format,” Johnson said. “As a parent, I believe this is the kind of information the
public needs about our schools, in an accessible format we can all understand. As a former ninth-grade teacher, I
am particularly excited to launch the student-readiness indicator, which shows
how prepared students are when they enter a school.”
Report cards are provided for all
North Carolina public schools, including charter and alternative schools. While
many parents and caregivers will receive a printed version of the report card
for their child’s school, the website contains additional data and information
about the indicators that are difficult to capture in a printed document.
In addition to being accessible to
those on mobile devices, the 2017 release of the online report card includes
two new features. The first is information related to Career and Technical
Education — what courses are offered and the number of industry-recognized
credentials that have been earned by students. The second new feature is a
student-readiness indicator, which shows the percentage of students entering a
school’s lowest grade who were proficient in both reading and math at the end
of the previous year. The student-readiness indicator, along with information
about the percentage of students who are economically disadvantaged, provide
context to the test scores and other information that is provided.
Johnson unveiled the new website at
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools district leadership meeting Tuesday.
"As a district that showed
great strides in growth, we think parents will find the color coding and user-friendly
formats nice ways to see how our schools are moving students forward," district
superintendent Beverly Emory said.
The new website allows for side-by-side
school comparisons. Since schools are structured differently from one another
in terms of size, grade levels, student populations, and programs offered, the
report cards should not be used to rank schools.
Researchers and others who want more
detailed data may visit the school report card analytical site at https://ncreportcards.ondemand.sas.com/landing.html. Data
downloads are available at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/src/researchers/. The North
Carolina School Report Cards have been produced annually since 2001 to provide
information about local schools, districts and overall state data. More
information, including answers to frequently asked questions about the report
cards, is available at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/src/.
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