The performance of state charter schools in Georgia, 2013/2014

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
The Performance of State Charter Schools in Georgia, 2013-14
By Tim R. Sass, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor
Department of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
April 21, 2015 Revised May 6, 2015

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Table of Contents
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 1 I. Introduction and Background.................................................................................................... 3 II. Methodology and Data .............................................................................................................. 7
A. Alternative Methods for Evaluating School Performance................................................. 7 1. The Value-Added Model Approach................................................................................. 8 2. The Student Growth Model Approach............................................................................ 8 3. Proficiency Targets ......................................................................................................... 9
B. Data................................................................................................................................... 10 III. Results All State Charters ................................................................................................... 11
A. Proficiency Targets ........................................................................................................... 11 B. Value-Added and Student Growth Model Estimates........................................................ 12 C. Summary of Findings ........................................................................................................ 13 IV. Results Individual School Summaries................................................................................ 36 Atlanta Heights Charter School............................................................................................... 37 Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) .......................................... 57 Cherokee Charter Academy .................................................................................................... 72 Coweta Charter Academy ........................................................................................................ 95 Fulton Leadership Academy ................................................................................................. 113 Georgia Connections Academy ............................................................................................. 126 Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett................................................................................. 135 Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls ................................................................. 148 Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy ........................................................... 168 Mountain Education Center .................................................................................................. 188 Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy) ......................................................... 192 Pataula Charter Academy...................................................................................................... 201 Provost Academy ................................................................................................................... 224 V. References ............................................................................................................................. 228

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Executive Summary
A total of 16 state charter schools operated in Georgia during the 2013-2014 school year, though two of the 16 ceased operations at the end of the school year. Of the 14 with continuing operations, two schools, the Georgia Cyber Academy and the Odyssey School, appear as a single institution in Georgia Department of Education administrative records during the 2013-2014 school year. Thus, this report focuses on the performance of 13 state charter schools in the 2013-14 school year and also provides performance data for 2012-13 to gauge how state charter school performance is changing over time. Key findings are:
State charter schools are diverse and many provide learning environments that differ from those of traditional public schools. State charter schools vary along multiple dimensions, including grade levels, student demographics, instructional mode (face-to-face or virtual), curricular focus and geographic area served. Four of thirteen serve only elementary and middle grades, another four serve elementary, middle and at least some high school grades, three serve both middle and high grades and two only offer grades 9-12. Four of the thirteen are single- gender schools, and African-American enrollment at four schools exceeds 90 percent. Two schools have over 10 percent of students classified as gifted while three report no gifted students. Three of the thirteen schools provide fully online course offerings while the remaining 10 provide face-to-face instruction exclusively. The three fully online virtual schools and one "brick-and-mortar" school enroll students from throughout the state, one school enrolls students who reside within a five-county region, and the remaining eight enroll students from a single school district only.
The majority of state charter schools serving elementary grades do not perform as well as the average public elementary school in the state. The estimated contribution to student achievement in grades four and five across all five CRCT-tested subjects (reading, math, ELA, science and social studies) was below the state average for six of the eight state charter schools serving elementary grades. Performance for the other two was not significantly different from the state average. This cross-subject average masks significant variation across subjects, however. For example, in ELA only two of the eight schools perform below the average elementary school in the state and the performance of one school exceeds the state average. In contrast, the estimated contribution to student achievement in mathematics is below the state average for six of the eight state charters and indistinguishable from the state average for the other two.
Most state charter schools serving middle grades perform as well or better than the average public middle school in the state. The estimated contribution to student achievement in grades 6-8 averaged across all five CRCT-tested subjects is indistinguishable from the state average for six of the 11 state charter schools that offer at least enroll students in one or more of grades 6-8. The cross-subject average performance of two state charters exceeds that of the average middle school in the state, and the contribution to student achievement for three state charters falls below the state average. Performance of state charters serving middle grades is particularly strong in reading and language arts. In reading, the performance of six of the eleven schools exceeds the state average, and none of the schools exhibit performance below the average middle school in the state. Likewise, in ELA the performance of only one school falls below that of the average middle school in the state, and five exhibit performance above the state average. However, performance in science and social studies is much weaker. In science, seven of eleven schools have estimated contributions to student achievement that fall below
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the state average and none exhibit performance that is significantly above that of the state average middle school in the state. In social studies, the performance of seven schools is below the state average, two exhibit performance that is above the state average and the performance of two is indistinguishable from the state average.
The performance of state charter schools serving high schools grades is mixed when compared to the average public high school in the state. As for elementary and middle grades, state charter schools serving some or all of grades 9-12 generally perform better in language arts than in math, science and social studies disciplines. Variation across subjects must be interpreted with caution, however, since some state charters have just begun to expand their range of grade offerings into high school and thus the sample of schools varies across subject areas. Further, three of the five state charters offering all high school grades (9-12) are virtual schools. In 9th Grade Literature, four of nine state charters are performing above the state average and the performance of the other five is indistinguishable from the state average. For the four schools with test scores for American Literature, two contribute more to student achievement than the state average while the other two contribute less than the state average. In contrast, in Analytic Geometry four of five schools perform below the state average and one performs above the state average. In Biology three of six schools perform below the state average and the performance of the other half is indistinguishable from the state average. Similarly, in Physical Science four of seven schools have estimated contributions to student achievement below the state average, two are indistinguishable from the state average and one exceeds the state average. Performance is also generally low in Economics, with three of four schools performing below the state average and one whose performance is indistinguishable from the state average.
The majority of state charter schools serving elementary grades do not perform as well as the average elementary school in their district(s). Similar to statewide comparisons, the contribution to student achievement averaged across all five CRCT-tested subjects is below the average of all elementary schools in the relevant district for six of eight state charters serving elementary grades. One school's contribution is indistinguishable from the district average and one school's contribution is above the district average.
The performance of state charter schools serving middle grades is mixed when compared to the average of all middle schools in the relevant district(s). Of the eight state charter schools serving middle grades, two perform better than the average of middle schools in their district (based on cross-subject averages of the estimated contribution to student achievement). Four perform worse than the average school in their district, and the performance of the other five schools is indistinguishable from the average school in the district.
At the high school level, most state charters outperform the average school in their district in at least one subject, but no state charter schools outperform the average school in the district or districts they serve in a majority of subjects. Of the nine state charter schools serving one or more high school grades, one performs above the district average in one subject, three outperform the district average in two subjects and one outperforms the district average in three subjects. However, a number of schools perform below the district average in multiple subjects and no state charter schools contribute more to student achievement than the average school in their district in a majority of the subjects in which their students are tested.
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I. Introduction and Background
There were 16 state charter schools operating in Georgia during the 2013-2014 school year, though two of the 16 ceased operations at the end of the year. Although the current State Charter Schools Commission has only been in operation since 2013, many of the state charter schools have been in existence for several years. Some were originally formed as state chartered special schools or were initially chartered by the original Georgia Charter Schools Commission, which was declared unconstitutional by the Georgia Supreme Court.1 Table 1 summarizes information about the 14 schools that continue to operate after the 2013-14 school year, including when the school opened, whether it is affiliated with an education management organization (EMO), grades served, curricular model, school calendar, delivery model (virtual vs. physical classrooms), attendance zone, and any special enrollment requirements (parental participation requirements or gender restrictions). The 14 schools are quite diverse in their structure, mission and service area. For example, three of the 14 state charter schools are virtual schools, and many of the state charter schools target traditionally underserved populations. Four of the schools are single-gender schools. The majority of state charter schools (9 of 14) serve students in a single district/county, one school (Pataula Charter Academy) has an attendance zone that spans multiple counties and the remaining four schools serve students from the entire state.
The state charter schools also vary considerably in the populations of students they serve, as illustrated in Table 2. Four of 13 schools serve almost exclusively African-American students.2 In contrast, five have student populations in which fewer than 20 percent of students are black or Hispanic. There is considerable diversity in proportions of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students, students eligible for Free/Reduced-Price Lunch (FRL), Students with Disabilities (SWD) and gifted students as well.
1 Details on the history of charter schools in general and more specifically state chartered schools, is contained in Georgia Department of Education (2012). 2The Georgia Cyber Academy and the Odyssey School appear as a single institution in Georgia Department of Education administrative records. Therefore, they are combined in Table 2 and all of the subsequent analyses.
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Table 1: General Characteristics of State Charter Schools

School Name
Atlanta Heights
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and
Technology (CCAT)
Cherokee Charter Academy

Calendar Year
Opened 2010
2002
2011

EMO Affiliation
National Heritage Academies
No
Charter Schools
USA

Grades K-8 6-12 K-9

Curriculum Focus School Year

None

Normal

Multi-age classrooms - students grouped
by skill level

Year-round

None

Normal

Single- Gender School
No
No
No

Virtual/ Online School
No
No
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No
No
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
Atlanta Public Schools Zone

1 Hour of Service/week

Bulloch County Public Schools Zone

Not Specified

Cherokee County Public Schools Zone

Coweta Charter Academy

2010

Charter Schools
USA

K-6

None

Normal

No

No

No

20 hours volunteer/year

Coweta County Public Schools Zone

Fulton

Leadership

2010

No

Academy

STEM with focus on

aviation and

6-9

aeronautics -

Normal

partnership with Civil

Boys Only

No

Air Patrol

Fulton

No

Not Specified County Public

Schools Zone

Georgia

Students

Connections

2011

No

K-12

Online Curriculum

Normal

No

Yes

Online

Not Specified

residing in

Academy

State of GA

Curriculum is entirely

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

2008

No

6-11

College Preparatory. Saturday Academy is
available to

Extended Day/Week/
Year

Girls- Only

No

struggling students.

Gwinnett

No

Not Specified County Public

Schools Zone

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School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

EMO Affiliation

Ivy Preparatory

Academy at

2011

No

Kirkwood

Ivy Preparatory

Young Men's Leadership

2011

No

Academy

Mountain

Education

2007

No

Charter School

Odyssey School (including the Georgia Cyber
Academy Program)

2004

K-12 (GCA Only)

Pataula Charter Academy

2010

No

Provost Academy

2012

No

Grades K-8 K-8 9-12
K-12
K-9

Curriculum Focus School Year

Curriculum is entirely College Preparatory. Saturday Academy is
available to struggling students.
College Preparatory curriculum for all students.
Self-paced, individualized, evening high school for students struggling at other
schools Multi-age classrooms - students grouped
by skill level/Looping: students remain with teacher two years (Odyssey School
Only)
Expeditionary Learning: project based lectures and
curriculum delivery/Looping: students remain with teacher for two years

Extended Day/Week/
Year Extended Day/Week/
Year
Year-round
Normal
Normal

Single- Gender School Girls-
Only Boys- Only
No
No
No

9-12

Online Curriculum

Normal

No

Virtual/ Online School
No No
No
GCA Program
No
Yes

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
DeKalb County Schools Zone

DeKalb

No

Not Specified

County

Schools Zone

Students

Yes

No

residing in

State of GA

Yes (GCA Only)

18 hours per academic year (Odyssey School
Only)

Coweta County Public Schools Zone (GCA serves
students statewide)

Yes Online

Not Specified Not Specified

Students residing in
Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph Public School districts
Students residing in State of GA

Note: Grade levels served based on enrollment as of October 2013.

Sources: Georgia Department of Education (2010), Georgia Department of Education (2011), Georgia Department of Education (2013), Georgia Department of Education (n.d.), individual state charter school websites.

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Table 2: Students Served by State Charter Schools

School Name
Atlanta Heights Charter School CCAT School Cherokee Charter Academy Coweta Charter Academy Fulton Leadership Academy Georgia Connections Academy Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Mountain Education Center Odyssey School (including Georgia Cyber Academy) Pataula Charter Academy Provost Academy Georgia

Pct.
Female 49.2 43.5 49.2 51.1 0.0 53.5
100.0 100.0
0.0 49.7 50.1 46.2 51.1

Pct.
White 0.7
81.2 79.9 78.6
0.0 55.0
1.2 3.2 1.5 90.7 60.1 78.6 28.5

Pct. Pct.

Black Hispanic

94.2

0.4

14.3

1.9

9.8

3.1

9.0

6.5

99.2

0.4

30.7

6.6

97.0

1.2

75.8

2.6

95.7

1.8

5.3

0.1

34.4

1.3

13.6

1.2

62.4

1.6

Pct.
Other 4.7 1.9 4.1 5.8 0.4 5.9 0.3
13.4 0.3 3.7 2.1 4.9 7.0

Pct.
FRL 92.6
0.0 15.7 18.4 100.0 49.3 74.1 61.2 70.6 72.9 90.6 59.9 15.9

Pct. Pct. Pct.

LEP SWD Gifted

1.8

9.1

0.0

0.0 13.0

5.8

1.2 11.0 11.6

0.0

7.7 11.2

0.0 13.9

6.5

0.1

9.4

2.5

0.0

3.0

2.7

5.5

6.7

5.5

0.0

8.9

3.7

2.1 14.0

0.0

0.2 12.6

1.1

3.1 10.3

6.6

0.0 11.6

0.0

Note: For the purposes of this table, students who attended more than one school were attributed to the school where they attended the longest period of time during the year.

Source: Individual-level student data from the GAAWARDS system.

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II. Methodology and Data
A. Alternative Methods for Evaluating School Performance
In order to evaluate the performance of state charter schools, there are two related challenges that must be addressed. First, like schools chartered by local school districts, state charter schools are schools of choice. As such, students and their parents have made a conscious decision to attend these schools rather than their neighborhood traditional public school. This individual selection process makes simple comparisons of student performance in state charter schools to traditional public schools problematic. Average test scores or other measures of student performance could reflect the attributes of the students and their families, rather than the performance of the school they attend. For example, if more highly motivated students/families select state charter schools, this would impart an upward bias to the measured performance of state charter schools. Conversely, if students who are struggling are more likely to seek out alternatives to their neighborhood traditional public school, this could bias downward the average achievement in state charter schools.
Evaluation of the performance of state charter schools is further complicated by the fact that they frequently serve students from multiple counties and have specialized missions. As noted above, three of the 16 state charter schools are virtual schools, and many of the state charter schools target traditionally underserved populations, such as students at risk of dropping out. This exacerbates the selection problem; greater diversity in school programs will tend to lead to even more sorting across schools. For example, the students who choose a virtual learning environment may differ even more from the typical student in a traditional public school than would a student attending a local "brick and mortar" charter school.
Although state charter schools are particularly diverse, the challenges to evaluating their performance are not unique. The issue of selection arises in the evaluation of locally approved charters, traditional public schools and individual teachers as well. A variety of methods have been employed by state and local education authorities throughout the country to evaluate the effects of schools and teachers on student achievement. While the particulars of each evaluation system vary, the methods can be placed into three general categories: value-added models, student growth percentiles and proficiency benchmarks.3
3 A fourth method used by academic researchers to evaluate charter schools is the analysis of admission lotteries (Hoxby & Rockoff (2004), Hoxby & Murarka (2009), Dobbie & Fryer (2009), Gleason, et al. (2010)). By law, charters must hold lotteries for admission if there are more students who want to attend than there are spots available. Since admission is random, one can gauge charter performance by comparing the achievement of students who "win" the lottery and gain admission to a charter to lottery "losers" who sought admission to a charter school, but ended up attending a traditional public school. In effect, the lottery creates a randomized trial where the lottery winners are the treatment group and the lottery losers are the control group. Unfortunately, since admission lottery data are not uniformly collected and not all state charter schools are oversubscribed, this is not a viable strategy in the present context.
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1. The Value-Added Model Approach
One way to evaluate school performance is to estimate the determinants of individual student test scores using a "value-added" model (VAM) of student achievement.4 VAMs typically include statistical controls for observable student characteristics and prior academic performance in order to account for self-selection. Most often factors like free/reduced-price lunch eligibility (a proxy for family income), English language learner status, and disability status are taken into account.5 Race, gender, mobility and age are also sometimes included in the model.6 This approach has been used by academic researchers to study the impact of charter schools in many jurisdictions including Arizona (Solmon, Paark & Garcia (2001)), Florida (Sass (2006)), North Carolina (Bifulco and Ladd (2006)) and Texas (Booker, et al. (2007)). It is also being used to evaluate teacher performance in Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Washington, DC.
In essence, the value-added model predicts what a student's test score would be based on his/her prior test scores and demographic characteristics. The difference between the actual and predicted current test score is a measure of the educational entity's contribution to student achievement. In the context of school-level evaluations, the estimated effect for a school is essentially the difference between actual and predicted test score for each student, averaged over all students in a school.
2. The Student Growth Model Approach
Several states, including Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts and New Jersey, are using student growth models to evaluate teacher performance.7 Like value-added models, the student growth model gauges the performance of teachers or schools by comparing the test scores of individual students to a reference standard. In the case of value-added, the benchmark is the expected performance of a student with the same observable characteristics and prior scores. For the student growth model, the standard is the actual performance of other students with the same prior-year test score (or history of test scores). There are two fundamental differences between the value-added model used in this analysis and the student growth model currently employed in Georgia, however. First, Georgia's student growth model does not include explicit controls for student characteristics like disability status or eligibility for
4 Details on the specification of value-added models and the estimates obtained for Georgia public schools are provided in the Technical Appendix. See also Todd and Wolpin (2003), Guarino, Reckase and Wooldridge (2012) and Sass, Semykina and Harris (2013). 5 For example, Florida's model includes disability status, English Language Learner status, gifted status, prior attendance, mobility and student age. Washington DC's model controls for poverty status, limited English proficiency status, prior attendance, mobility and poverty. Louisiana's model includes controls for disability status, gifted status, poverty and prior disciplinary actions. 6 While all value-added models include some measure of prior student performance, specific value-added specifications may vary in the degree to which observable student characteristics are taken into account (including none at all). The analysis below focuses on a value-added model that includes essentially all available student characteristics. However, the technical appendix reports results based on alternative value-added specifications with either no student characteristics (i.e. only prior test scores) and the full set of student characteristics except for race/ethnicity. The specification of value-added models used for teacher accountability systems vary across states. 7 For a list of states employing or planning to use student growth models, see Wash and Isenberg (2013).
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free/reduced-price lunch.8 This means that school-level average student growth measures will reflect both the impact of a school on student learning and the influences of student characteristics that are not accounted for by prior test scores. For example, if students with disabilities typically experience less growth in achievement than do their typical peers who started with the same prior-year test score, a school with an unusually high proportion of students with disabilities would have a lower mean student growth score than an otherwise identical school with fewer students with disabilities. Second, the student growth model approach is based on student performance rankings among students with the same prior-year test score (or history of test scores), not absolute differences in scores across students. This means there is no need to account for differences in the scaling of tests across years and subjects. It also means that student performance is gauged by the ordering of test scores, not by how much one student's score exceeds that of another.
The logic behind the approach is straightforward, though the underlying calculations are complex.9 As an example, imagine plotting the distribution of fourth-grade test scores obtained by students who all had the same third-grade test score the prior year. Students are assigned a student growth percentile (SGP) depending on where they fall in that distribution. An SGP of 70 would indicate that 70 percent of students with the same third-grade score in the prior year obtained a lower fourth-grade score. To evaluate individual teachers or schools, either the mean or the median SGP value of all students in the relevant unit is typically used.
3. Proficiency Targets
Many state school accountability systems are based in part on whether or not students meet a certain threshold achievement score on tests. For example, about one-fourth of a school's score on Georgia's College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) is determined by the proportion of students who "meet" or "exceed" proficiency standards established by the state.10 In general, proficiency targets (including those in the CCRPI) and associated threshold scores for determining achievement levels are set by policy makers and focus on absolute performance rather than growth.
The advantage of proficiency targets is they establish an absolute benchmark and thus all schools could potentially improve from one year to the next. In contrast, both the value- added and student growth models yield relative measures of school performance. In the case of value-added, schools are compared to the average school in a state. Student growth models yield SGPs for individual students, which by definition have a median value of 50. Therefore
8 Most student growth models used in teacher accountability systems do not include any student characteristics. One exception is the State of New York. In 2011/12 New York State used both "conditional" and "unconditional" student growth percentiles to evaluate teacher performance. The "conditional" SGP approach essentially estimated a value-added model and then used the resulting predictions to determine a student's ranking and SGP. See American Institutes for Research (2012). 9 Student growth percentiles are generated using a non-parametric quantile regression model. For details see Betebenner (2009) and Goldhaber, Walch and Gabele (2012). 10 For 2014, 60 points of the CCRPI are based on "achievement," 40 percent of which is based on content mastery. The remaining 40 points of the CCRPI are determined by progress (25 points) and closing achievement gaps (15 points). An additional 10 points can be earned above the 100-point total through challenge points. The progress portion of the CCRPI is based on a school's students demonstrating typical or high growth via their student growth percentile.
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aggregations of student performance to the school level (whether means or medians) are implicitly tied to the median student's performance across the state.
The downside of achievement levels and associated proficiency targets is that they do not control for student selection into schools. Thus, scores may reflect the abilities of students and the parental support they receive, rather than a school's contribution to student learning. For example, on average, students from more affluent families tend to score higher on achievement exams than do students from lower-income families. Thus, even if the quality of teachers and school leaders were equal across all schools in a state, the schools serving more advantaged students would tend to receive higher scores on a proficiency-target metric.
Given the problems associated with the use of proficiency targets, this report focuses on value-added and student-growth estimates to evaluate the performance of state charter schools. However, descriptive evidence in the form of proportions of students meeting proficiency standards are reported in order to provide a picture of the current achievement level of students attending state charter schools.
B. Data
To estimate the value-added model and derive estimates of the impact of each school on student achievement, data from Georgia's State Longitudinal Data System, known as GAAWARDS (Georgia's Academic and Workforce Analysis and Research Data System) are employed. GAAWARDS is maintained by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) and combines data from the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) along with data from eight other state agencies: Department of Labor (workforce data), Department of Early Care and Learning ("Bright From the Start" pre-K program), Georgia Student Finance Commission (financial aid), Governor's Office of Student Achievement, Georgia Professional Standards Commission (teacher licensure), Technical College System of Georgia, University System of Georgia and the State Charter Schools Commission. GAAWARDS also includes data from the Georgia Independent College Association.
For grades 3-8, achievement is measured by scores on the Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) in Reading, English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science and Social Studies. Prior-year scores in all five subjects are used to control for student ability and prior educational inputs.11 For high school students, End-of-Course test (EOCT) scores in Math (Analytic Geometry, Coordinate Algebra, Math II), ELA (9th Grade Literature and Composition, American Literature and Composition), Science (Biology, Physical Science) and Social Studies (U.S. History, Economics) are employed. For the analysis of EOCT scores, 8th grade CRCT scores in all five subjects are used as controls. Because the CRCT does not vertically align scale scores over time, and the CRCT and End-of-Course Tests can vary from year to year, all scale scores are converted to normal-curve equivalents (z-scores) based on the testing population in the state for each grade, year, and subject. Thus, school effect estimates are measured in standard deviation units or "effect sizes."
In addition to prior test scores, the value-added model includes the following student characteristics as controls: gender, foreign-born indicator, race/ethnicity, ESOL enrollment,
11 Same-subject actual prior-year scores are employed. For other subjects (e.g. prior-year science score when evaluating value added in math), missing values are imputed by using the mean of scores from other subjects.
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free/reduced-price lunch eligibility, gifted status, primary-language-not-English indicator, disability status (15 specific disability categories), number of schools attended in the current year, an indicator for students who changed schools from the prior year, number of disciplinary incidents in the prior year, attendance in the prior year and the difference between a student's age (in months) and the modal age of students in the same grade.12,13
Individual-level student growth percentiles were calculated by the GaDOE and provided to the GAAWARDS staff who in turn assigned anonymous student codes. A very small number of students with SGPs could not be matched to records in the GAAWARDS system and were thus excluded from the analysis. It is important to note that SGPs are not calculated by the GaDOE for students who repeat a grade or skip a grade because the pool of students who took the same grade level exam in the prior year is too small to form a valid SGP.
For both the value-added and student growth model analyses, students were assigned to schools using the "Full Academic Year" (FAY) rule used in the CCRPI calculations. For grades 3-8, FAY was determined by the number of calendar days between the start of each school's school year and the end of the state CRCT testing window. For grades 9-12, FAY for each school was measured by the calendar days between the start and end of the school year. For each student, the school of longest attendance was determined based on individual attendance records. The total calendar days enrolled at the school of longest attendance was then determined. If a student's calendar days of enrollment were at least 65 percent of the FAY, they were assigned to that school for the purposes of determining value-added school effects and mean or median school SGPs.
III. Results All State Charters
A. Proficiency Targets
Proficiency percentages obtained by students in state charters on the CRCT and EOCT exams are those reported publicly by the GaDOE and are presented in the individual school summaries.14 Statewide and district averages are also provided for reference.15 It is important to emphasize that proficiency percentages reflect the ability and motivation of students, family resources and the quality of education received in prior years. As such, they provide a picture of
12 The difference between a student's age and the modal age of other students in the same grade is included to control for students who had previously be retained or started kindergarten late. This variable was not included in the value-added model used for 2012/13 state charter schools accountability report. 13 In addition to the value-added model with all of the specified student characteristics as controls, two other specifications were also estimated. One alternative specification omitted student race/ethnicity and the other omitted all student characteristics (and thus only included prior test scores). Results based on these alternative specifications are available in the Technical Appendix. 14 Georgia Department of Education (2014a) and Georgia Department of Education (2014b). Minor differences in underlying data sometimes result in slight discrepancies when compared to the proficiency levels published on the Governor's Office of Student Achievement's Report Card. 15 Cross-school comparisons of proportions of students meeting proficiency targets are provided in the Technical Appendix.
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the current achievement level of students, not necessarily the impact a student's current school has had on their achievement within the previous year.
When considering the proficiency percentages, a few patterns emerge at the elementary and middle school levels (grades 3-5 and 6-8). First, there is considerable variation across subjects and across grades, even within a school. Second, three state charter schools stand out as having large proportions of struggling students across multiple subjects. Atlanta Heights and Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy each have 40 percent or more of their students in the "does not meet standards" category in multiple CRCT-tested subjects. Similarly, Provost Academy has over half of their students failing to meet standards on four End- of-Course Exams: Math II, Biology, U.S. History and Economics. At the other end of the scale, Coweta Charter Academy frequently has much larger percentages of students in the "exceeding state standards" category than the statewide average. Cherokee Charter Academy also tends to have relatively high proportions of students exceeding grade-level expectations.
While proficiency targets are important to show a school's absolute performance, examining student growth within a school year provides a stronger indication of the school's impact on student learning. The next section provides an overview of the value-added and student growth estimates that provide a more complete picture of a school's impact.
B. Value-Added and Student Growth Model Estimates
By construction, the average school at a given grade grouping (elementary, middle or high school) in Georgia has a school effect of zero in the value-added model (controlling for student characteristics). The performance of each school in a given grade grouping is measured relative to this average. Thus, a positive estimated value for an elementary school's effect indicates that students attending that school experience greater growth in achievement than do students with the same observable characteristics at the average elementary school in the state. Negative values do not mean that the achievement of the school's students fell during the year. Instead, a negative school effect indicates the gap between that school's contribution to student achievement and the contribution of the average school (measured in standard deviation units). For example, a value of -0.10 means that a school's contribution to student achievement is 0.10 standard deviations below that of the average school in the state. In the same way, a value of 0.10 means that a school's effect is 0.10 standard deviations above the average school in the state. To put this in perspective, reducing class size in elementary grades by seven students is associated with a 0.10 to 0.20 standard deviation increase in student achievement (Whitehurst and Chingos (2011)) and the difference in the effectiveness of a rookie teacher and one with three years of experience is about 0.07 standard deviations (Dee and Wyckoff (2013)).
The value-added effects for schools are statistical estimates and carry some degree of uncertainty. Along with the estimated effects, the value-added model generates a measure of the uncertainty of each school's effect, the estimated standard error. The estimated standard errors can be used to develop confidence intervals around each school's estimated impact on student achievement. With a confidence interval of approximately plus-or-minus two standard errors, one can be 95 percent confident that the true school effect lies in that range. Thus, for example, if a school's estimated effect is 0.5 and the standard error is 0.1, one can be 95 percent confident that the true effect lies in the range of 0.3 to 0.7. This information can then be used to determine how confident we are that a given school's performance is above, below, or equal to the average school. The standard errors and confidence intervals will generally be smaller the larger the number of students per school. The estimated school effect on achievement will
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vary with the performance of individual students. In a small school, random events like a student having a poor night's sleep or getting "lucky" in their guesses on an exam will have a larger impact on the school's overall effect creating more uncertainty in the true school effect whereas in a large school such random events will tend to cancel out. Thus, for example, the Odyssey School, which includes the virtual Georgia Cyber Academy, has the largest enrollment of any state charter school and correspondingly tends to have the smallest confidence interval.
Student growth percentiles measure where a student is in the distribution of current achievement relative to students with the same prior-year test score (or history of test scores). Thus, by definition, a score of 50 for a student indicates that about half of students with the same test score last year did better this year and about half did worse. School-level averages of student growth percentiles are reported below. The statewide school-level mean of SGPs is approximately equal to the statewide student median of 50, which provides a benchmark for comparing scores across schools.16 Unlike the value-added model, the student growth percentiles produced from Georgia's model do not include standard errors or confidence intervals at this time.17 Without this information, one cannot quantify the likelihood that two schools with different mean or median SGPs are in fact no different. Put differently, absent a measure of precision, we could judge one school as superior to another when in fact they are likely no different.
For both the value-added and student growth models, separate estimates are presented for different grade groupings and for different subjects. In addition, an estimated effect on average performance across all subjects in each grade grouping is produced. Thus, for example, a charter serving grades K-8 receives two value-added scores in math, one for its impact on math achievement of students in elementary grades (grades 4 and 5) and another for its impact on students in middle grades (grades 6-8).
C. Summary of Findings
A total of 21 figures are presented, five for each of the subjects tested in elementary school, five more for the same subjects in middle school, nine high school courses for which
16 For 2013-14 the GaDOE computed student growth percentiles in two different ways. In the "cohort SGP" approach, statistical models are updated annually so that the median student receives a SGP of 50 each year. This means that the baseline is reset each year and (as with value-added measures), it is not possible to measure a general increase in student achievement gains across all students. In attempt to capture general changes over time in teacher effectiveness the GaDOE also computed a "baseline- referenced SGP." As the name implies, the baseline-referenced SGP uses the same model each year which was developed using a baseline cohort of students. This results in SGPs relative to the baseline cohort and therefore allows for the possibility of universal improvement in performance over time. However, as a consequence, the median baseline-referenced SGP will not necessarily equal 50. In 2013- 14 cohort-referenced SGPs were used for EOCTs in math, but baseline-referenced SGPs were used for the CRCTs and all non-math EOCTs. Future SGP calculations will only use the cohort-referenced method. See McCaffrey, Castellano and Lockwood (2014). 17 It is possible to compute standard errors for student growth percentiles, but there is no single accepted methodology for doing so and most state accountability systems that utilize student growth percentiles, including Georgia's, do not report standard errors at this time. The GaDOE is still developing its approach for calculating standard errors. For a discussion of standard errors in the student growth model see Doran, Swanlund and Lemke (2012) and American Institutes for Research (2012).
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EOCTs are administered, and two for the five-subject averages for elementary and middle school. Based on value-added, the majority of state charters perform at a level that is not significantly different from the average school in Georgia in three of the 19 specific grade group/subject combinations: Elementary ELA, 9th Grade Literature and Coordinate Algebra. In ten areas, the majority of state charters perform significantly worse than the average school in Georgia: Elementary Math, Elementary Science, Elementary Social Studies, Middle Science, Middle Social Studies, Analytic Geometry, Biology, Economics, Physical Science and U.S. History. Conversely, state charters tend to outperform the average school in Middle School Reading. Results are mixed for state charters in the remaining five grade level/subject areas: Elementary Reading, Middle Math, Middle ELA, High School American Literature and High School Math II.
The comparisons with state averages provide an overall picture of state charter school performance. More relevant are comparisons between individual state charter schools and other schools (both traditional public schools and local charters) in the geographic areas they serve. Following the 21 figures mentioned above that combine results for all state charters, Section IV presents individual school summaries as well as graphs comparing each school's results with schools in the district it serves (where applicable).
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Figure 2: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 4 and 5 Reading [Statewide]
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Figure 3: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 4 and 5 English Language Arts [Statewide]
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Figure 4: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 4 and 5 Math [Statewide]
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Figure 5: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 4 and 5 Science [Statewide]
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Figure 6: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 4 and 5 Social Studies [Statewide]
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Figure 11: Value-Added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 6, 7 and 8 Science [Statewide]
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Figure 12: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 6, 7 and 8 Social Studies [Statewide]
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Figure 13: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 9 through 12 9th Grade Literature [Statewide]
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Figure 15: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 9 through 12 Analytic Geometry [Statewide]
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Figure 16: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 9 through 12 Coordinate Algebra [Statewide]
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Figure 17: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 9 through 12 Mathematics II [Statewide]
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Figure 19: Value-added School Effects and Mean Student Growth Percentiles for Schools Serving Grades 9 through 12 Physical Science [Statewide]
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IV. Results Individual School Summaries
The following tables summarize both state and district comparisons of performance for each state charter school. Two estimates of school performance are reported, one based on the value-added model and the other derived from the student growth models. The value-added model includes all available student characteristics (plus prior-year test scores) as controls. Results from two other value-added models, one excluding student race/ethnicity and the other including only lagged test scores, are presented in the Technical Appendix. The student growth model yields individual student growth percentiles which are then averaged across students in a school to produce a mean student growth percentile measure of school performance.
For both the value-added and student-growth percentile measures, a state percentile and a district rank are presented. The state percentile represents the proportion of schools in the state with a lower school effect. Thus, for example, a state percentile of 60 means that 60 percent of schools in the relevant grade group rank below the school. District ranks represent the position of a school relative to other schools in the same district offering the same grade group. For example a ranking of "25 out of 40" indicates that 24 schools from the relevant district have higher scores and 15 have lower scores.
For state charters serving students from a single school district or county, it is possible to compare their performance to traditional public schools and locally approved charters in the same area. For nearly all state charter students, the relevant public school option is a school in the same district as the district served by their current school. Put differently, a within-district comparison shows how students would likely fare if a state charter were to close. Five of the 15 state charter schools serve students from multiple counties or the entire state. Thus, the following analyses only cover the remaining 10 single-district/county state schools. Of these 10 schools, some do not currently serve all high school grades or have fewer than 15 test takers on some of the EOCT exams. Consequently, the within-district comparisons at the high school level are limited.
For both the value-added and student-growth metrics a comparison between a school's 2013/14 and 2012/13 performance is provided. Estimates for both years are based on the model used in 2013/14, and thus the performance estimates for 2012/13 reported here differ from those in the 2012/13 State Charter Schools Performance Report.18
Each school summary report is structured as follows: Key Findings General Characteristics School Demographics Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject Comparison of Summary Results from 2013/14 and 2012/13 Comparison of School Impact Proficiency Level
18 The value-added model used in the 2012/13 report did not include a control for a student's age relative to the age of their grade-level peers. Also, the mean student growth percentiles in the 2012/13 report are schoolwide averages that include all students in a school for which a student growth percentile was calculated. The student growth percentiles averages for 2012/13 reported here include only those students that are included in the value-added model and are limited to the same grade range as reported for the value-added estimates (i.e. elementary, middle and high).
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Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.1152 in elementary grades and -0.0143 in middle grades, meaning that Atlanta Heights Charter School is below the state average in elementary grades and not significantly different than the state average in middle grades.
In general, Atlanta Heights Charter School is strong in middle school ELA and science, but its performance in elementary math and reading is weak relative to both the district and the state.
Atlanta Heights Charter School's 2013/14 performance in elementary and middle grades is generally comparable to performance in 2012/13. Performance in middle school social studies in 2013/14 is improved relative to performance in 2012/13.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the district and state average in middle school ELA and above the district average in middle school science o below the district and state average in reading and math in elementary grades and below the state average in elementary science and middle school social studies. o indistinguishable from the district and state average in ELA and social studies in elementary grades and in reading and math in middle grades.
General Characteristics

School Name Atlanta Heights

Calendar Year
Opened
2010

EMO Affiliation
National Heritage Academies

Grades K-8

Curriculum Focus None

School Year

Single- Gender School

Normal

No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
APS District Enrollment
Zone

School Demographics
School Name Atlanta Heights Charter School

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

49.2

0.7

94.2

0.4

4.7

92.6

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

1.8

9.1

Pct. Gifted
0.0

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Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.1152 Elementary / -0.0143 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0446 Elementary / -0.0331 Middle
Atlanta Heights's contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is less than that of the average elementary school in the state and district, and its contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is not statistically different from the average middle school in the state and district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.1293 0.0227 -0.1838 -0.1083 -0.1692 -0.1152

11 Lower 58 No 14 Lower 21 Lower 18 No 14 Lower

45 of 57 Lower 16 of 57 No 43 of 57 Lower 33 of 57 No 39 of 57 No 36 of 57 Lower

-0.0582 0.1470 -0.0462 0.0409 -0.1613 -0.0143

25 No 96 Higher 36 No 65 No 17 Lower 44 No

17 of 26 No 3 of 26 Higher
18 of 26 No 6 of 27 Higher
18 of 27 No 13 of 27 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

47

17

40 of 57

46

43

31 of 57

34

10

48 of 57

45

19

37 of 57

37

13

43 of 57

42

10

44 of 57

51

17

21 of 26

50

69

8 of 26

40

18

22 of 26

51

57

10 of 27

53

70

8 of 27

49

40

15 of 27

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Atlanta Height's performance in elementary and middle grades in 2013/14 is generally on par with its performance in 2012/13. The all-subject elementary school average value added has changed little, moving from -0.106 in 2012/13 to -0.115 in 2013/14. In 2012/13 the all-subject average value-added for middle grades was -0.0678 whereas in 2013/14 it was -0.0143. Performance in middle school social studies in 2013/14 was substantially higher than in 2012/13.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

-0.0634 0.0050 -0.1719 -0.0884 -0.2057 -0.1056

39 of 58 20 of 58 49 of 58 44 of 58 47 of 58 46 of 58

No No Lower No Lower Lower

-0.1293 0.0227 -0.1838 -0.1083 -0.1692 -0.1152

45 of 57 Lower 16 of 57 No 43 of 57 Lower 33 of 57 No 39 of 57 No 36 of 57 Lower

0.0098 0.0094 -0.1668 0.1443 -0.3561 -0.0678

10 of 27 15 of 27 26 of 27
5 of 27 26 of 27 20 of 27

No No Lower Higher Lower No

-0.0582 0.1470 -0.0462 0.0409 -0.1613 -0.0143

17 of 26 No 3 of 26 Higher
18 of 26 No 6 of 27 Higher
18 of 27 No 13 of 27 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

44 48 of 58 43 22 of 58 38 53 of 58 43 47 of 58 41 37 of 58 42 48 of 58

53 16 of 27

46 15 of 27

37 26 of 27

58

5 of 27

33 23 of 27

45 20 of 27

47 40 of 57 46 31 of 57 34 48 of 57 45 37 of 57 37 43 of 57 42 44 of 57
51 21 of 26 50 8 of 26 40 22 of 26 51 10 of 27 53 8 of 27 49 15 of 27

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Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Atlanta Heights

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Atlanta Heights

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

A t lan ta H eig ht s

S ch ool F E in S td. D ev. U nits -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

A tlan ta Heig hts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S ch ool M ean SG P in P ercen tile U nits

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Atlanta Heights

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Atlanta Heights

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Atlanta Heights

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Atlanta Heights

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Atlanta Heights

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Atlanta Heights

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Atlanta Heights

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Atlanta Heights

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Atlanta Heights

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Atlanta Heights

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

S ch ool F E in S td. D ev. U nits -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
At lan t a H eig h ts

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

At lant a H eigh ts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S ch ool M ean SG P in P ercen tile U nits

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

A tlan ta He ig hts

S ch ool F E in S td. D ev. U nits -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

At lan ta H eig h ts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S ch ool M ean SG P in P ercen tile U nits

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: Middle Math State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

S ch ool F E in S td. D ev. U nits -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
At lan t a H eigh ts

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

At lant a H eigh ts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S ch ool M ean SG P in P ercen tile U nits

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

A tlan ta H eig hts

S c h o o l F E in S td . D e v . U n i ts -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

A tlan ta H eig hts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S c h o o l M e a n S G P i n P e r c e n t il e U n it s

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Atlanta Heights Charter School

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Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Atlanta Heights Comparison District: Atlanta Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Atlant a Heigh ts

S ch ool F E in S td. D ev. U nits -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

A tlan ta H eig hts

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S ch ool M ean SG P in P ercen tile U nits

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 3 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average

CRCT Reading

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

76

13.2

59.2

27.6

86.8

4,202

14.9

46.2

38.9

85.1

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

79

8.9

62.0

29.1

91.1

3,893

11.9

44.3

43.8

88.1

124,872

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

66

12.1

74.2

13.6

87.9

3,817

9.2

56.5

34.3

90.8

123,653

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

60 3,466 124,746

0.0

85.0

15.0

100.0

5.4

55.7

38.9

94.6

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

58

10.3

69.0

20.7

89.7

3,347

8.8

58.2

32.9

91.2

127,269

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

45 3,259 126,232

4.4

68.9

26.7

95.6

4.7

53.7

41.6

95.3

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

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System Name
Grade 3 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT ELA
% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

76

26.3

59.2

14.5

73.7

4,201

21.6

51.1

27.4

78.4

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

79

11.4

73.4

15.2

88.6

3,893

20.0

49.9

30.1

80.0

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

66 3,818 123,571

3.0

83.3

13.6

97.0

9.9

58.2

31.9

90.1

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

60

10.0

73.3

16.7

90.0

3,462

13.4

61.7

25.0

86.6

124,615

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

58 3,343 126,992

8.6

60.3

31.0

91.4

9.8

52.0

38.3

90.2

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

45

15.6

57.8

26.7

84.4

3,253

8.1

58.6

33.3

91.9

126,011

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

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System Name
Grade 3 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average

CRCT MATHEMATICS

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

76

44.7

36.8

18.4

55.3

4,217

31.3

35.7

33.1

68.7

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

79

34.2

54.4

11.4

65.8

3,895

30.1

39.5

30.3

69.9

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

66

42.4

51.5

6.1

57.6

3,796

22.0

43.9

34.1

78.0

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

60

30.0

65.0

5.0

70.0

3,446

25.6

54.8

19.6

74.4

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

58

34.5

48.3

17.2

65.5

3,335

22.6

51.7

25.7

77.4

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

45

48.9

40.0

11.1

51.1

3,224

30.0

46.2

23.8

70.0

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

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System Name
Grade 3 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT SCIENCE

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

76

38.2

40.8

21.1

61.8

4,285

37.4

34.3

28.4

62.6

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

80

37.5

38.8

23.8

62.5

4,007

34.0

32.9

33.0

66.0

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

80.9

66

37.9

51.5

10.6

62.1

3,954

31.1

37.4

31.5

68.9

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

60

46.7

51.7

1.7

53.3

3,578

41.1

43.8

15.1

58.9

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

59

30.5

49.2

20.3

69.5

3,442

26.2

41.8

32.0

73.8

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

45

42.2

48.9

8.9

57.8

3,377

34.8

50.4

14.9

65.2

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

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System Name
Grade 3 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Atlanta Heights District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

76

19.7

44.7

35.5

80.3

4,271

26.0

43.3

30.7

74.0

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

80

30.0

63.8

6.3

70.0

3,986

31.9

41.7

26.3

68.1

127,178

18.8

51.1

30

81.2

66

45.5

53

1.5

54.5

3,942

30.1

44.5

25.4

69.9

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

61

55.7

36.1

8.2

44.3

3,560

31.2

35.5

33.2

68.8

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

59

45.8

37.3

16.9

54.2

3,432

27.9

35.6

36.5

72.1

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

45

40.0

53.3

6.7

60.0

3,374

31.4

44.7

23.9

68.6

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

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Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.1966 in middle grades, meaning that in the middle grades the performance of Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology is significantly below the state average of middle schools. The value-added estimates in Analytic Geometry, Physical Science and U.S. History are also below the state and district averages.
In general, the Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology is weak in all subjects except for reading at the middle school level and is also weak in Analytic Geometry, Physical Science and U.S. History at the high school level, relative to both the state and the district.
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology's performance in middle grades in 2013/14 is generally lower than in 2012/13; its performance in high school is roughly comparable to its performance in 2012/13.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o below the state and district averages in middle school math, science and social studies and in Analytic Geometry, Physical Science and U.S. History. o indistinguishable from the district and state average in middle school reading and in 9th Grade Literature and Biology.
General Characteristics

School Name
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and
Technology (CCAT)

Calendar Year
Opened
2002

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

Multi-age classrooms

6-12

- students grouped Year-round

by skill level

Single- Gender School
No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement

Enrollment Restrictions

1 Hour of Service/week

Bulloch County Public Schools Zone

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Students Served
School Name CCAT School

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Pct. Pct. SWD

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

LEP

Gifted

43.5

81.2

14.3

1.9

1.9

0.0

0.0

13.0

5.8

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.1966 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0331 Middle
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology's contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is lower than the average middle school in the state or district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.
In all three of the five measured subjects, CCAT's contribution to a high school student's achievement is lower than both the average high school in the district and the average high school in the state.

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Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0315 -0.1982 -0.2933 -0.2847 -0.2441 -0.1966

66 No 1 Lower 1 Lower 2 Lower 8 Lower 2 Lower

1 of 5 No 5 of 5 No 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower

9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

0.0781 -0.3250 -0.0988
-0.3788 -0.4934

75 No 3 Lower
31 No
3 Lower 3 Lower

2 of 4 No 4 of 4 Lower 2 of 4 No
4 of 4 Lower 4 of 4 Lower

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

50

11

4 of 5

41

6

5 of 5

37

9

5 of 5

34

4

5 of 5

38

10

5 of 5

39

3

5 of 5

54

73

2 of 4

38

9

4 of 4

56

83

1 of 4

25

1

4 of 4

23

4

4 of 4

59
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology's performance in 2013/14 is generally lower in the middle grades relative to its performance in 2012/13. The all-subjects average contribution to achievement of middle school students was -0.1966 in 2013/14 compared to 0.0368 in 2012/13. In high school, results were mixed, with improvement in the school's contribution to student achievement in 9th Grade Literature and little change in the contribution to student achievement in Physical Science.

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.3976 0.0044 -0.1289 0.0244 -0.1271 0.0368

1 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 4 of 5 4 of 5 4 of 5

Higher No Lower No No No

0.0315 -0.1982 -0.2933 -0.2847 -0.2441 -0.1966

1 of 5 No 5 of 5 No 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower 5 of 5 Lower

-0.0193 0.1228

3 of 4 No 1 of 4 No

-0.1950 0.0602

4 of 4 No 2 of 4 No

0.0781
-0.3250 -0.0988

2 of 4 No
4 of 4 Lower 2 of 4 No

-0.3156

4 of 4 No

-0.3788 -0.4934

4 of 4 Lower 4 of 4 Lower

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

65

1 of 5

47

4 of 5

50

5 of 5

47

5 of 5

43

5 of 5

50

5 of 5

49

3 of 4

45

1 of 4

39

4 of 4

66

1 of 4

38

4 of 4

50

4 of 5

41

5 of 5

37

5 of 5

34

5 of 5

38

5 of 5

39

5 of 5

54

2 of 4

38

4 of 4

56

1 of 4

25

4 of 4

23

4 of 4

60
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
CCAT

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

CCAT

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

61
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

CCAT

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

CCAT

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

62
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
CCAT

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

CCAT

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

63
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
CCAT

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

CCAT

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

64
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

0

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
CCAT

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

CCAT

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

65
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
CCAT

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

CCAT

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

66
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: 9th Grade Literature State Charter: Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT) Comparison District: Bulloch County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

CCAT

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

CCAT

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

67
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 6 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average

CRCT Reading

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

23 706 124,746

0.0

43.5

56.5

100.0

3.1

47.2

49.7

96.9

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

19 692 127,269

5.3

57.9

36.8

94.7

6.1

57.5

36.4

93.9

5.3

53

41.7

94.7

25 638 126,232

0.0

56

44

100.0

2.2

47.2

50.6

97.8

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

23

17.4

60.9

21.7

82.6

708

8.1

63.1

28.8

91.9

124,615

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

19

15.8

52.6

31.6

84.2

704

6.3

48.9

44.9

93.8

126,992

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

25 630 126,011

0.0

72.0

28.0

100.0

4.8

52.2

43.0

95.2

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

68
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

System Name
Grade 6 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average

CRCT MATHEMATICS

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

22

27.3

54.5

18.2

72.7

703

12.4

58.2

29.4

87.6

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

19

10.5

73.7

15.8

89.5

704

11.5

52.8

35.7

88.5

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

25

24.0

68.0

8.0

76.0

627

11.8

48.8

39.4

88.2

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

24

33.3

54.2

12.5

66.7

736

25.1

55.3

19.6

74.9

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

20

25.0

60.0

15.0

75.0

716

13.1

40.5

46.4

86.9

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

26

30.8

61.5

7.7

69.2

660

20.3

59.7

20.0

79.7

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

69
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

System Name
Grade 6 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 CCAT School District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

24

41.7

33.3

25.0

58.3

733

20.2

38.5

41.3

79.8

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

20

25.0

60.0

15.0

75.0

713

16.1

36.5

47.4

83.9

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

26

23.1

65.4

11.5

76.9

657

14.6

47.0

38.4

85.4

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

70
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

System Name
9TH Grade Literature CCAT School District Average Statewide Average American Literature CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Analytic Geometry CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Biology CCAT School District Average Statewide Average US History CCAT School District Average Statewide Average Economics CCAT School District Average Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

21

4.8

57.1

38.1

95.2

446

12.1

47.5

40.4

87.9

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

9 246 93,689

-- 10.6 7.5

-- 69.5 50.7

-- 19.9 41.9

-- 89.4 92.6

17

82.4

17.6

0.0

17.6

366

68.6

26.2

5.2

31.4

97,659

65.4

28.9

5.7

34.6

14

14.3

78.6

7.1

85.7

224

17.0

43.3

39.7

83.0

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

26

53.8

34.6

11.5

46.1

369

29.3

37.7

33.1

70.8

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

14

50.0

35.7

14.3

50.0

297

22.6

45.5

32.0

77.5

59,564

18.8

39.1

42.1

81.2

71
Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology (CCAT)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Cherokee Charter Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.1228 in elementary grades and 0.0727 in middle grades, meaning that Cherokee Charter Academy is below the state average in elementary grades and above the state average in middle grades. The school's contribution to student achievement in 9th Grade Literature, Biology and Coordinate Algebra are all not significantly different from district and state averages.
In general, Cherokee Charter Academy's performance is strong in middle school social studies, but its performance in elementary school math and science is weak relative to both the district and the state.
Cherokee Charter Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally better than in 2012/13 in the middle grades and generally weaker in the elementary grades in 2013/14 compared to 2012/13.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the district and state average in middle school social studies, above the state average in middle school ELA, and above the district average in middle school science. o below the state and district averages in math and science in elementary grades, below the state average in elementary reading and ELA, and below the district average in math in the middle grades. o indistinguishable from the district and state averages in elementary social studies, middle school reading, 9th Grade Literature, Biology, and Coordinate Algebra.
General Characteristics

School Name
Cherokee Charter Academy

Calendar Year
Opened
2011

EMO Affiliation
Charter Schools
USA

Grades K-9

Curriculum Focus None

School Year

Single- Gender School

Normal

No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
Cherokee County Public Schools Zone

72
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Students Served
School Name Cherokee Charter Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

49.2

79.9

9.8

3.1

4.1

15.7

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

1.2

11.0

Pct. Gifted
11.6

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.1228 Elementary /0.0727 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0561 Elementary / 0.0137 Middle
Cherokee Charter Academy's contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is lower than that of the average elementary school in the state and district, and its contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is higher than that of the average middle school in the state and district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.0924 -0.0999 -0.1660 -0.1501 -0.0971 -0.1228

18 Lower 16 Lower 16 Lower 14 Lower 31 No 12 Lower

21 of 25 No 16 of 25 No 22 of 25 Lower 19 of 25 Lower 14 of 25 No 19 of 25 Lower

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

46

16

11 of 25

42

15

13 of 25

43

33

20 of 25

43

12

20 of 25

42

26

19 of 25

43

15

19 of 25

73
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0292 0.0640 -0.0453 0.0387 0.2596 0.0727

64 No 81 Higher 37 No 65 No 93 Higher 81 Higher

12 of 18 No 8 of 18 No
14 of 18 Lower 7 of 18 Higher 4 of 18 Higher 4 of 18 Higher

0.0544

69 No

4 of 7 No

-0.0740 0.0579

36 No 69 No

7 of 7 No 4 of 7 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

54

39

13 of 18

51

75

3 of 18

51

70

14 of 18

50

52

8 of 18

57

87

4 of 18

53

75

6 of 18

53

68

1 of 7

36

20

7 of 7

68

96

1 of 7

Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Cherokee Charter Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally weaker in the elementary grades relative to 2012/13. In 2013/14 the school's cross-subject contribution to student achievement in the elementary grades was -0.1228 whereas in 2012/13 it was 0.0554. In contrast, Cherokee Charter Academy's performance in the middle grades in 2013/14 was generally better than in 2012/13. In 2013/14 Cherokee Charter Academy's cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in middle grades was 0.0727, whereas in 2012/13 it was -0.0943. Cherokee Charter Academy did not serve any high school grades in 2012/13, and therefore it is not possible to make any year-to-year comparisons at the high school level.

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Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.0685 0.0235 -0.1179 0.0472 0.2112 0.0554

9 of 26 10 of 26 20 of 26
4 of 26 2 of 26 6 of 26

No No No Higher Higher Higher

-0.0924 -0.0999 -0.1660 -0.1501 -0.0971 -0.1228

21 of 25 No 16 of 25 No 22 of 25 Lower 19 of 25 Lower 14 of 25 No 19 of 25 Lower

-0.0589 -0.0381 -0.2599 -0.1713 0.0486 -0.0943

18 of 19 17 of 19 19 of 19 17 of 19
3 of 19 16 of 19

Lower Lower Lower Lower Higher Lower

0.0292 0.0640 -0.0453 0.0387 0.2596 0.0727

12 of 18 No 8 of 18 No
14 of 18 Lower 7 of 18 Higher 4 of 18 Higher 4 of 18 Higher

0.0544

4 of 7 No

-0.0740 0.0579

7 of 7 No 4 of 7 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

54 11 of 26

48 11 of 26

47 18 of 26

50 12 of 26

59

3 of 26

52

8 of 26

55 16 of 19

52 10 of 19

48 18 of 19

42 14 of 19

50

3 of 19

49 14 of 19

46 11 of 25 42 13 of 25 43 20 of 25 43 20 of 25 42 19 of 25 43 19 of 25

54 13 of 18 51 3 of 18 51 14 of 18 50 8 of 18 57 4 of 18 53 6 of 18

53

1 of 7

36

7 of 7

68

1 of 7

75
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

76
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

77
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Cherokee

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

78
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

79
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Cherokee

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

80
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Cherokee

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

81
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

82
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

83
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

84
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Cherokee

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

85
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

86
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

87
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: 9th Grade Literature State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Cherokee

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Cherokee

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

88
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Biology State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Cherokee

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Cherokee

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

89
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Coordinate Algebra State Charter: Cherokee Charter Academy Comparison District: Cherokee County Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

C he ro ke e

S c h o o l F E in S td . D ev . U n i ts -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

C he ro ke e

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

S c h o o l M e a n S G P i n P e r c e n t il e U n it s

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

90
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Proficiency Levels
System Name
Grade 3 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

109 2,927 126,745

0.0

31.2

68.8

100

4.1

36.8

59.0

95.9

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

115 3,068 124,872

3.5

34.8

61.7

96.5

4.4

34.8

60.9

95.6

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

115 3,046 123,653

0.9

45.2

53.9

99.1

2.9

45.4

51.7

97.1

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

108 2,973 124,746

0.9

35.2

63.9

99.1

1.4

36.4

62.2

98.6

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

113 2,978 127,269

4.4

32.7

62.8

95.6

2.3

40.1

57.6

97.7

5.3

53

41.7

94.7

95 3,037 126,232

0.0

35.8

64.2

100

1.4

32.2

66.4

98.6

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

109

2.8

46.8

50.5

97.2

2,940

7.0

48.4

44.6

93.0

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

115

6.1

49.6

44.3

93.9

3,062

8.4

48.4

43.2

91.6

124,719

11.3

54

34.8

88.7

91
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade 5 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average

114 3,038 123,571

1.8

54.4

43.9

98.2

3.6

50.0

46.4

96.4

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

108 2,968 124,615

3.7

53.7

42.6

96.3

5.4

51.4

43.2

94.6

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

112 2,963 126,992

7.1

31.3

61.6

92.9

3.2

33.5

63.3

96.8

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

96 3,028 126,011

2.1

33.3

64.6

97.9

2.8

39.4

57.8

97.2

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

CRCT MATH

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

110

9.1

33.6

57.3

90.9

2,977

14.4

34.0

51.6

85.6

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

114

20.2

37.7

42.1

79.8

3,064

12.5

41.5

46.0

87.5

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

114

7.9

45.6

46.5

92.1

3,016

7.2

40.9

51.9

92.8

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

107

8.4

64.5

27.1

91.6

2,964

9.7

51.5

38.8

90.3

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

111

9.0

45.9

45.0

91.0

2,950

5.1

40.8

54.1

94.9

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

94

14.9

56.4

28.7

85.1

3,008

8.0

43.4

48.7

92.0

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

92
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

System Name
Grade 3 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

114

5.3

29.8

64.9

94.7

3,054

16.9

36.6

46.5

83.1

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

116

10.3

39.7

50.0

89.7

3,124

14.5

37.5

47.9

85.5

127,657

19.1

38

42.9

80.9

116

11.2

29.3

59.5

88.8

3,127

11.6

36.0

52.4

88.4

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

112

13.4

52.7

33.9

86.6

3,024

15.5

55.3

29.2

84.5

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

114

7.0

31.6

61.4

93.0

3,043

8.7

32.2

59.1

91.3

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

96

14.6

58.3

27.1

85.4

3,101

12.4

51.2

36.3

87.6

128,936

22.1

52.9

25

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

114

4.4

43.9

51.8

95.6

3,043

13.3

42.0

44.8

86.7

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

116

10.3

62.1

27.6

89.7

3,115

14.1

52.5

33.4

85.9

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

93
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade 5 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average

116

10.3

52.6

37.1

89.7

3,115

15.1

53.8

31.1

84.9

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

112

10.7

28.6

60.7

89.3

3,024

13.6

35.0

51.5

86.4

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

114

6.1

16.7

77.2

93.9

3,035

8.2

23.7

68.2

91.8

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

96

9.4

40.6

50

90.6

3,090

9.9

41.2

48.9

90.1

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Analytic Geometry Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average Biology Cherokee Charter District Average Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

26

3.8

46.2

50.0

96.2

3,103

6.3

37.3

56.4

93.7

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

9

---

---

2,271

50.9

45.3

97,659

65.4

28.9

---

3.8

49.1

5.7

34.6

25

16.0

52.0

32.0

84.0

2,836

10.0

35.6

54.3

89.9

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

94
Cherokee Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Coweta Charter Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on an elementary student's average achievement across all subjects is 0.0491, meaning that Coweta Charter Academy's performance is indistinguishable from the state average and greater than the district average of elementary schools. In middle school the school's contribution to student achievement averaged across all subjects is -0.0017, meaning that Coweta Charter Academy's contribution to student achievement is not statistically different from either the state average or the district average of middle schools.
In general, Coweta Charter Academy's strengths include elementary ELA and middle school reading. Coweta Charter Academy's performance in the elementary grades in 2013/14 is generally on par with its performance in 2012/13. The school's contribution to student achievement is:
o above the district average in elementary ELA and above the state average in middle school reading. o lower than the state and district average in middle school math and social studies. o indistinguishable from the district and state averages in elementary reading, elementary math, elementary science, elementary
social studies, middle school ELA and middle school science.
General Characteristics

School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

Coweta Charter Academy

2010

EMO Affiliation
Charter Schools
USA

Grades K-6

Curriculum Focus None

School Year

Single- Gender School

Normal

No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
20 hours volunteer/year

Enrollment Restrictions
Coweta County Public Schools Zone

Students Served
School Name Coweta Charter Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

51.1

78.6

9.0

6.5

5.8

18.4

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.0

7.7

Pct. Gifted
11.2

95
Coweta Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: 0.0491 Elementary/-0.0017 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0424 Elementary/0.0153 Middle
Coweta Charter Academy's contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is indistinguishable from the average elementary school in the state but higher than that of the average elementary school in the district. The school's contribution to student achievement averaged across all middle school subjects is indistinguishable from both the average middle school in the state and the average middle school in the district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0191 0.0529 0.0323 0.0683 0.0809 0.0491

56 No 72 No 57 No 70 No 67 No 67 No

2 of 20 No 1 of 20 Higher 8 of 20 No 5 of 20 No 2 of 20 No 2 of 20 Higher

0.2024 0.1401 -0.1909 0.0712 -0.2366 -0.0017

98 Higher 96 No
6 Lower 73 No
9 Lower 49 No

1 of 7 No 1 of 7 No 7 of 7 Lower 2 of 7 No 7 of 7 Lower 6 of 7 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

53

57

3 of 20

47

53

5 of 20

51

66

6 of 20

51

46

11 of 20

52

66

4 of 20

51

62

3 of 20

62

93

1 of 7

55

96

1 of 7

41

23

7 of 7

51

55

3 of 7

39

14

7 of 7

49

40

4 of 7

96
Coweta Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Coweta Charter Academy's performance in elementary grades in 2013/14 is generally equivalent to their performance in 2012/13. In 2013/14 the school's cross-subject contribution to student achievement in the elementary grades was 0.0491 and in 2012/13 it was 0.1291. In both years, its contribution to student achievement averaged across subjects at the elementary level ranked in the top 2 out of 20 schools. However, performance was somewhat weaker in both elementary reading and ELA relative to the prior year. The school did not offer any middle school grades in 2012/13, and thus no year-to-year comparisons can be made at the middle school level.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.2499 0.2064 0.0029 0.1093 0.0906 0.1291

1 of 20 1 of 20 5 of 20 1 of 20 2 of 20 1 of 20

Higher Higher No No Higher Higher

0.0191 0.0529 0.0323 0.0683 0.0809 0.0491

2 of 20 No 1 of 20 Higher 8 of 20 No 5 of 20 No 2 of 20 No 2 of 20 Higher

0.2024 0.1401 -0.1909 0.0712 -0.2366 -0.0017

1 of 7 No 1 of 7 No 7 of 7 Lower 2 of 7 No 7 of 7 Lower 6 of 7 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

66

1 of 20

57

1 of 20

57

2 of 20

60

1 of 20

57

2 of 20

59

1 of 20

53 3 of 20 47 5 of 20 51 6 of 20 51 11 of 20 52 4 of 20 51 3 of 20

62

1 of 7

55

1 of 7

41

7 of 7

51

3 of 7

39

7 of 7

49

4 of 7

97
Coweta Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

98
Coweta Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

99

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

100

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

101

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

102

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

103

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

104

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

105

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

106

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Coweta

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

107

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Coweta

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Coweta

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

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Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Coweta Charter Academy Comparison District: Coweta County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Coweta

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Coweta

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Coweta Charter Academy

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System Name
Grade 3 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average

Proficiency Levels

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

93 1,592 126,745

2.2

28

69.9

97.8

5.8

44.0

50.3

94.2

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

91 1,558 124,872

2.2

25.3

72.5

97.8

5.1

43.4

51.5

94.9

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

71 1,591 123,653

2.8

47.9

49.3

97.2

4.0

54.2

41.7

96.0

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

39 1,634 124,746

0.0

38.5

61.5

100

1.6

42.5

55.9

98.4

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

93

1.1

47.3

1,592

7.9

55.9

127,032

11.5

56.1

91

4.4

46.2

1,555

9.8

55.4

124,719

11.3

54.0

71 1,594 123,571

1.4

60.6

4.0

57.1

5.3

55.6

39 1,625 124,615

0.0

56.4

5.6

57.8

8.2

59.6

Coweta Charter Academy

51.6

98.9

36.2

92.1

32.3

88.5

49.5

95.6

34.8

90.2

34.8

88.7

38.0

98.6

38.9

96.0

39.2

94.7

43.6

100.0

36.6

94.4

32.2

91.8

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System Name
Grade 3 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT MATH

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

93

5.4

21.5

73.1

94.6

1,591

15.1

37.0

47.8

84.9

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

91

4.4

38.5

57.1

95.6

1,556

16.9

45.8

37.3

83.1

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

71

5.6

50.7

43.7

94.4

1,579

9.7

44.1

46.2

90.3

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

39

25.6

48.7

25.6

74.4

1,619

8.8

56.6

34.6

91.2

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

93

5.4

26.9

67.7

94.6

1,605

17.4

41.6

41.1

82.6

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

91

4.4

26.4

69.2

95.6

1,573

15.1

40.6

44.3

84.9

127,657

19.1

38

42.9

80.9

71

11.3

45.1

43.7

88.7

1,627

13.6

38.5

47.9

86.4

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

39

23.1

38.5

38.5

76.9

1,667

18.2

59.3

22.5

81.8

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

Coweta Charter Academy

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System Name
Grade 3 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Coweta Charter District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

93

5.4

37.6

57.0

94.6

1,602

10.7

50.9

38.3

89.3

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

91

5.5

42.9

51.6

94.5

1,568

16.3

55.4

28.4

83.7

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

71

14.1

64.8

21.1

85.9

1,624

16.8

57.5

25.7

83.2

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

39

23.1

46.2

30.8

76.9

1,662

12.7

31.2

56.1

87.3

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

Coweta Charter Academy

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Fulton Leadership Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects in middle school is 0.1033, meaning that Fulton Leadership Academy is above both the state and district average of all middle schools. The school's contributions to student achievement in 9th Grade Literature and Coordinate Algebra are both above state averages.
In general, Fulton Leadership Academy's strengths include middle school reading, ELA and social studies as well as 9th Grade Literature and Coordinate Algebra.
Relative to 2012/13, Fulton Leadership Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally comparable to its performance in 2012/13. However, in middle school social studies and math the estimated contribution to student achievement is lower than in the prior year.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the district and state average in middle school reading, middle school ELA, middle school social studies and 9th Grade Literature as well as above the state average in Coordinate Algebra. o indistinguishable from both the district and state averages in middle school math and science and high school Physical Science and indistinguishable from the district average in Coordinate Algebra.
General Characteristics

School Name
Fulton Leadership Academy

Calendar Year
Opened
2010

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

STEM with focus on

aviation and

6-9

aeronautics -

Normal

partnership with Civil

Air Patrol

Single- Gender School
Boys Only

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement

Enrollment Restrictions

Not Specified

Fulton County Public Schools Zone

Students Served

School Name Fulton Leadership Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

0.0

0.0

Pct. Black 99.2

Pct. Pct. Other

Hispanic

0.4

0.4

Pct. FRL 100.0

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.0

13.9

Pct. Gifted
6.5

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Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: 0.1033 Middle Overall District Effect: 0.0129 Middle
Fulton Leadership Academy's contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is greater than that of the average middle school in the state and district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.2748 0.2197 -0.0113 -0.0705 0.1128 0.1033

99 Higher 98 Higher 49 No 27 No 77 Higher 89 Higher

1 of 24 Higher 2 of 24 Higher 14 of 24 No 19 of 24 No 5 of 24 Higher 5 of 24 Higher

0.3009

98 Higher

1 of 19 Higher

0.2485 -0.0105

92 Higher 50 No

6 of 18 No 12 of 19 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

63

95

2 of 24

49

56

14 of 24

44

33

16 of 24

47

30

15 of 24

53

71

6 of 24

51

55

12 of 24

65

99

1 of 19

52

59

11 of 18

48

52

10 of 19

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results

Fulton Leadership Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally comparable to its performance in 2012/13. In 2012/13 its average contribution to student achievement across all five middle school subjects tested on the CRCT was 0.1670 and in 2013/14 it was 0.1033. Its contribution to student achievement in middle school math fell from 0.1392 to -0.0113 and its contribution to student achievement in middle school social studies fell from 0.3217 in 2012/13 to 0.1128 in 2013/14. Fulton Leadership Academy did not offer any high school grades in 2012/13, so no year-to-year comparisons can be made at the high school level.

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.1512 0.1882 0.1392 0.0314 0.3217 0.1670

1 of 24 1 of 24 2 of 24 5 of 24 2 of 24 1 of 24

Higher Higher Higher No Higher Higher

0.2748 0.2197 -0.0113 -0.0705 0.1128 0.1033

1 of 24 Higher 2 of 24 Higher 14 of 24 No 19 of 24 No 5 of 24 Higher 5 of 24 Higher

0.3009

1 of 19 Higher

0.2485

6 of 18 No

-0.0105 12 of 19 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

57 12 of 24

54

6 of 24

53

9 of 24

57

5 of 24

69

1 of 24

58

2 of 24

63 2 of 24 49 14 of 24 44 16 of 24 47 15 of 24 53 6 of 24 51 12 of 24
65 1 of 19

52 11 of 18 48 10 of 19

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Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

50 60 70 80 90 100

Fulton Leadership

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

10 20 30 40

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Fulton Leadership

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Subject Area: 9th Grade Literature State Charter: Fulton Leadership Academy Comparison District: Fulton County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Fulton Leadership

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Fulton Leadership

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Proficiency Levels
System Name
Grade 6 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

57 6,757 124,746

3.5

40.4

56.1

96.5

2.4

41.4

56.2

97.6

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

57 7,043 127,269

0.0

40.4

59.6

100.0

4.2

46.5

49.3

95.8

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

52 6,971 126,232

0.0

46.2

53.8

100.0

2.4

37.5

60.1

97.6

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

55 6,755 124,615
57 7,031 126,992
52 6,972 126,011

3.6

63.6

32.7

96.4

6.8

51.7

41.6

93.2

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

0.0

38.6

61.4

100.0

4.6

39.3

56.1

95.4

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

3.8

55.8

40.4

96.2

4.6

42.0

53.3

95.4

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

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System Name
Grade 6 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 Fulton Leadership District Average

N Tested

CRCT MATH

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

55

16.4

72.7

10.9

83.6

6,722

14.9

46.4

38.6

85.1

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

56

0.0

51.8

48.2

100.0

6,984

11.1

42.2

46.6

88.9

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

50

10.0

68.0

22.0

90.0

6,922

16.7

41.2

42.1

83.3

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

58

27.6

62.1

10.3

72.4

6,931

24.1

47.6

28.3

75.9

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

58

5.2

48.3

46.6

94.8

7,159

14.2

33.9

51.9

85.8

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

53

20.8

67.9

11.3

79.2

7,104

20.5

46.0

33.5

79.5

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

58

13.8

37.9

48.3

86.2

6,901

19.9

30.0

50.1

80.1

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Statewide Average Grade 7 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

58

3.4

29.3

67.2

96.6

7,130

16.5

25.6

57.9

83.5

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

53

17.0

54.7

28.3

83.0

7,069

19.5

39.5

41.0

80.5

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Coordinate Algebra Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average Physical Science Fulton Leadership District Average Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

60

5.0

48.3

46.7

95.0

7,471

9.0

37.5

53.4

90.9

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

60

68.3

30.0

1.7

68.3

7,638

48.2

32.3

19.5

51.8

124,492

59.7

31.4

8.8

40.3

60

11.7

46.7

41.7

88.3

4,185

19.3

37.0

43.7

80.7

71,340

15.5

32.8

51.8

84.5

Fulton Leadership Academy

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Georgia Connections Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.1212 in elementary grades and -0.0674 in middle grades, meaning that Georgia Connections Academy's performance is below the state average in elementary and middle grades. The school's estimated contribution to student achievement exceeds the state average in 9th Grade Literature and American literature, but is below the state average in Analytic Geometry, Biology, Economics, Physical Science and U.S. History.
In general, Georgia Connections Academy's strengths include elementary reading, middle school reading and ELA, and 9th Grade Literature and American Literature in high school. However, its performance in elementary and middle school math, elementary and middle school science, middle school social studies and high school Analytic Geometry, Biology, Economics and U.S. History is weak relative to the state.
Relative to 2012/13, Georgia Connections Academy's performance appears to be somewhat weaker in 2013/14, with substantial declines in elementary social studies and three high school subjects.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the state average in elementary reading, middle school reading, middle school ELA, 9th Grade Literature, and American Literature. o below the state average in elementary math, elementary science, middle school math, middle school science, middle school social studies, high school Analytic Geometry, Biology, Economics, Physical Science and U.S. History. o indistinguishable from the state average in elementary ELA, elementary social studies, and high school Coordinate Algebra.
General Characteristics

School Name
Georgia Connections
Academy

Calendar Year
Opened

EMO Affiliation

Grades

2011

No

K-12

Curriculum Focus Online Curriculum

School Year

Single- Gender School

Virtual/ Online School

Serves Multiple Counties

Normal

No

Yes

Online

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
Students residing in State of GA

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Students Served
School Name Georgia Connections Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

53.5

55.0

30.7

6.6

5.9

49.3

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.1

9.4

Pct. Gifted
2.5

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.1212 Elementary / -0.0674 Middle
Georgia Connections Academy's contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is lower than that of the average elementary school in the state, and its contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is also lower than that of the average middle school in the state. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area. In high school, Georgia Connections outperformed the state in 9th Grade Literature and American Literature but performed below the state average in Analytic Geometry, Biology, Economics, Physical Science, and U.S. History. Performance was indistinguishable in Coordinate Algebra.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0969 0.0054 -0.3276 -0.0886 -0.2563 -0.1212

84 Higher 50 No
3 Lower 25 Lower
8 No 12 Lower

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

54

64

48

53

30

4

46

24

39

18

43

16

Georgia Connections Academy

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Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added

(Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State

Statistically District Rank Statistically

Percentile

Different

(lower is Different From

(higher is

From State

better)

District

better)

Average?

Average?

0.1862 0.1092 -0.1937 -0.0858 -0.3521 -0.0674

97 Higher 91 Higher
5 Lower 22 Lower
3 Lower 20 Lower

0.1506 0.1558 -0.2586 -0.0935 -0.0574 -0.3992

92 Higher 87 Higher
8 Lower 32 Lower 39 No
7 Lower

-0.1895 -0.5646

15 Lower 1 Lower

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

59

74

53

87

36

8

43

12

33

4

45

14

55

73

50

61

37

8

38

23

50

48

39

19

36

10

21

3

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Georgia Connections Academy's performance in 2013/14 appears to be somewhat weaker than its performance in 2012/13, though in only four subjects, elementary social studies, high school Biology, high school Economics and high school U.S. History does the decline exceed 0.15 standard deviations. In 2012/13 the school's cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in the elementary grades was 0.0029, whereas in 2013/14 it was -0.1212. The school's cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in middle school grades was -0.0127 in 2012/13 and -0.0674 in 2013/14.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.1209 0.1455 -0.2357 0.0497 -0.0792 0.0029

0.0969 0.0054 -0.3276 -0.0886 -0.2563 -0.1212

0.2552 0.1707 -0.1863 -0.0726 -0.2303 -0.0127

0.1862 0.1092 -0.1937 -0.0858 -0.3521 -0.0674

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

55

54

55

48

38

30

49

46

48

39

49

43

61

59

53

53

40

36

44

43

34

33

46

45

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Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.2365 0.2714
0.1091 -0.2022 -0.1109

0.1506 0.1558 -0.2586 -0.0935 -0.0574 -0.3992

-0.1532 -0.3671

-0.1895 -0.5646

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

62

55

54

50

37

50

38

43

50

42

39

48

36

29

21

21

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Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 3 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 4 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 5 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 6 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 7 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 8 Georgia Connections Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 4 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 5 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 6 Georgia Connections Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

133

12.0

37.6

50.4

88.0

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

134 124,872

4.5

35.8

59.7

95.5

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

167 123,653

6.0

46.1

47.9

94.0

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

232 124,746

3.0

34.5

62.5

97.0

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

289 127,269

2.8

42.6

54.7

97.2

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

312 126,232

2.2

42.3

55.4

97.8

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

132

15.2

53.8

31.1

84.8

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

133

12.8

39.1

48.1

87.2

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

168 123,571

9.5

58.9

31.5

90.5

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

231 124,615

5.6

61.0

33.3

94.4

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

131
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Grade 7 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 8 Georgia Connections Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 4 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 5 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 6 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 7 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 8 Georgia Connections Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 4 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 5 Georgia Connections Statewide Average

286 126,992

4.2

40.2

55.6

95.8

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

307 126,011

6.2

45.6

48.2

93.8

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

CRCT MATH

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

133

38.3

34.6

27.1

61.7

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

134

33.6

42.5

23.9

66.4

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

166

34.9

46.4

18.7

65.1

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

228

20.2

61.4

18.4

79.8

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

284

13.0

57.7

29.2

87.0

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

307

37.5

48.5

14.0

62.5

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

132

27.3

37.1

35.6

72.7

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

132

21.2

40.2

38.6

78.8

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

80.9

168

21.4

42.9

35.7

78.6

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

Georgia Connections Academy

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Grade 6 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 7 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 8 Georgia Connections Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 4 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 5 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 6 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 7 Georgia Connections Statewide Average Grade 8 Georgia Connections Statewide Average

232

22.0

64.2

13.8

78.0

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

289

17.0

40.5

42.6

83.0

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

315

30.5

54.6

14.9

69.5

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

132

30.3

50.0

19.7

69.7

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

132

24.2

54.5

21.2

75.8

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

167

30.5

56.3

13.2

69.5

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

231

35.1

44.6

20.3

64.9

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

287

28.9

48.1

23.0

71.1

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

315

25.4

52.1

22.5

74.6

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

Georgia Connections Academy

133

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System Name
9TH Grade Literature Georgia Connections Statewide Average American Literature Georgia Connections Statewide Average Biology Georgia Connections Statewide Average US History Georgia Connections Statewide Average Economics Georgia Connections Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

313

8.6

44.1

47.3

91.4

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

248 93,689

4.0

48.4

47.6

96.0

7.5

50.7

41.9

92.6

314

24.5

46.8

28.7

75.5

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

238

53.8

33.2

13.0

46.2

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

143

28.0

51.7

20.3

72.0

59,564

18.8

39.1

42.1

81.2

Georgia Connections Academy

134

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Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.0027 in middle grades, meaning that in the middle grades the Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett is not significantly different than the state average of middle schools. The school's estimated contribution to student achievement in 9th Grade Literature is not significantly different from either the state or district averages.
In general, the Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett is strong in middle school math, but its performance in middle school science is weak relative to the district and state.
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett's performance in 2013/14 is generally comparable to its performance in 2012/13. The school's contribution to student achievement is:
o above the state average in middle school math. o below the district average in middle school reading, ELA, math, science and social studies. o indistinguishable from the district and state average in 9th Grade Literature.
General Characteristics

School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

2008

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

Curriculum is entirely

College Preparatory. Extended

6-11 Saturday Academy is Day/Week/

available to

Year

struggling students.

Single- Gender School
Girls- Only

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement

Enrollment Restrictions

Not Specified

Gwinnett County Public Schools Zone

Students Served

School Name Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

100.0

3.2

75.8

2.6

13.4

61.2

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

5.5

6.7

Pct. Gifted
5.5

135
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Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject

Overall School Effect: -0.0027 Middle Overall District Effect: 0.1041 Middle
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett's contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is not statistically different from the average middle school in the state, but it is below the average middle school in the district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0148 -0.0256 0.0831 -0.0681 -0.0138 -0.0027

58 No 39 No 77 Higher 27 Lower 46 No 48 No

30 of 30 Lower 29 of 30 Lower 22 of 30 Lower 30 of 31 Lower 29 of 31 Lower 29 of 31 Lower

0.0103

53 No

17 of 23 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

55

45

29 of 30

45

27

30 of 30

47

49

28 of 30

44

15

28 of 31

38

10

28 of 31

46

20

28 of 31

47

23

17 of 23

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett's performance in 2013/14 is generally comparable to its performance in 2012/13. The estimated impact on student achievement averaged across all subjects was -0.0027 in 2013/14 compared to 0.0077 in 2012/13. Changes in estimated performance in specific subjects were generally not large.

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

-0.0930 0.0389 0.1717 -0.1281 0.0398 0.0077

29 of 31 8 of 31 3 of 31
30 of 31 20 of 31 23 of 31

Lower No Higher Lower Lower No

0.0148 -0.0256 0.0831 -0.0681 -0.0138 -0.0027

30 of 30 Lower 29 of 30 Lower 22 of 30 Lower 30 of 31 Lower 29 of 31 Lower 29 of 31 Lower

0.1515 3 of 23 No

0.0103 17 of 23 No

0.0557 -0.0725
-0.5441

11 of 23 No 16 of 22 No
23 of 23 Lower

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

55 29 of 31

54

7 of 31

57 10 of 31

30 29 of 31

47 22 of 31

50 26 of 31

51

6 of 23

46 12 of 23 45 15 of 22
22 23 of 23

55 29 of 30 45 30 of 30 47 28 of 30 44 28 of 31 38 28 of 31 46 28 of 31
47 17 of 23

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

137

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

138
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Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

139

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

140

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

141

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

142

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep.

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Ivy Prep.

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

143

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: 9th Grade Literature State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett Comparison District: Gwinnett County Public Schools
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep.

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Proficiency Levels
System Name
Grade 6 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

94 12,734 124,746

2.1

36.2

61.7

97.9

1.8

37.3

60.9

98.2

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

88 13,004 127,269

3.4

48.9

47.7

96.6

2.2

41.8

55.9

97.8

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

114 12,936 126,232

0.9

39.5

59.6

99.1

1.6

31.7

66.7

98.4

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

94 12,752 124,615
88 12,985 126,992
113 12,940 126,011

3.2

60.6

36.2

96.8

4.9

50.3

44.8

95.1

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

1.1

42.0

56.8

98.9

2.3

35.7

62.0

97.7

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

2.7

47.8

49.6

97.3

3.0

40.7

56.3

97.0

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

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System Name
Grade 6 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 6 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT MATH

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

94

5.3

55.3

39.4

94.7

12,702

9.0

49.0

42.1

91.0

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

86

10.5

43.0

46.5

89.5

12,936

4.5

39.6

55.8

95.5

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

111

9.0

50.5

40.5

91.0

12,932

8.9

41.1

50.0

91.1

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

95

11.6

68.4

20.0

88.4

13,068

16.5

47.8

35.7

83.5

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

89

10.1

41.6

48.3

89.9

13,300

6.5

27.2

66.3

93.5

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

114

11.4

70.2

18.4

88.6

13,232

14.6

50.1

35.3

85.4

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett

146

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System Name
Grade 6 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

95

9.5

18.9

71.6

90.5

12,995

12.2

26.7

61.1

87.8

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

89

6.7

33.7

59.6

93.3

13,227

6.8

19.3

73.9

93.2

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

114

14.9

57.9

27.2

85.1

13,144

11.8

36.1

52.1

88.2

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Analytic Geometry Ivy Prep- Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average Biology Ivy Prep - Gwinnett District Average Statewide Average US History Ivy Prep Academy District Average Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

15

13.3

33.3

53.3

86.6

13,386

8.4

41.2

50.4

91.6

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

15

80.0

20.0

7,884

64.3

31.8

97,659

65.4

28.9

0.0

20.0

3.8

35.6

5.7

34.6

14

35.7

42.9

21.4

64.3

13,842

16.6

38.6

44.7

83.3

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

10

60.0

40.0

0.0

40.0

11,284

21.1

31.1

47.8

78.9

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

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Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.3300 in elementary grades and -0.0171 in middle grades, meaning that Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls is below the state and district averages in elementary grades and not significantly different than the state and district averages in middle grades.
In general, Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls' strengths include middle school reading, but its performance in elementary reading, ELA and science are weak relative to the state and district.
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls' performance in 2013/14 is generally weaker than in 2012/13. The estimated impact on student achievement averaged across all subjects in elementary school was -0.3300 in 2013/14 compared to -0.0757 in 2012/13. In middle school the cross-subject average contribution to student achievement was 0.0339 in 2012/13 and -0.0171 in 2013/14.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the state average in middle school reading. o below the district and state average in elementary school reading, ELA and science, and below the state average in elementary math and in middle school science and social studies. o indistinguishable from the district and state average in elementary social studies and middle school ELA and math.
General Characteristics

School Name
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

Calendar Year
Opened
2011

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

Curriculum is entirely

College Preparatory. Extended

K-8

Saturday Academy is Day/Week/

available to

Year

struggling students.

Single- Gender School
Girls- Only

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
DeKalb County

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Students Served
School Name Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

100.0

1.2

97.0

1.2

0.3

74.1

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.0

3.0

Pct. Gifted
2.7

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.3300 Elementary / -0.0171 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0624 Elementary / - 0.0225 Middle
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls' contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is below that of the average elementary school in the state and district. Its contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is not statistically different from the average middle school in the state and district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.1971 -0.2659 -0.2206 -0.4394 -0.5292 -0.3300

3 Lower 1 Lower 9 Lower 1 Lower 1 No 1 Lower

82 of 85 Lower 84 of 85 Lower 68 of 85 No 85 of 85 Lower 85 of 85 No 85 of 85 Lower

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

44

8

73 of 85

33

1

85 of 85

33

9

75 of 85

25

1

85 of 85

16

1

85 of 85

30

1

85 of 85

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Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.1309 0.1044 -0.0223 -0.1542 -0.1171 -0.0171

93 Higher 90 No 47 No 10 Lower 23 Lower 42 No

6 of 30 No 5 of 30 No 12 of 30 No 26 of 30 No 19 of 30 No 10 of 30 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

56

51

11 of 30

53

89

4 of 30

39

14

23 of 30

51

54

10 of 30

39

15

24 of 30

47

30

17 of 30

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls' performance in 2013/14 is generally weaker than in 2012/13. The estimated impact on student achievement averaged across all subjects in elementary school was -0.3300 in 2013/14 compared to -0.0757 in 2012/13. In middle school the cross-subject average contribution to student achievement was -0.0171 in 2013/14, which is not substantially different from the estimated contribution in 2012/13 of 0.0339. The largest declines were in elementary reading, ELA, science and social studies.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

-0.0193 0.0208 -0.4699 -0.0600 0.1479 -0.0757

58 of 85 27 of 85 85 of 85 36 of 85
8 of 85 48 of 85

No No Lower No Higher No

-0.1971 -0.2659 -0.2206 -0.4394 -0.5292 -0.3300

82 of 85 Lower 84 of 85 Lower 68 of 85 No 85 of 85 Lower 85 of 85 No 85 of 85 Lower

0.1660 0.0294 0.1129 -0.2869 0.1340 0.0339

3 of 29 5 of 29 3 of 29 28 of 29 4 of 29 4 of 29

Higher No Higher Lower Higher Higher

0.1309 0.1044 -0.0223 -0.1542 -0.1171 -0.0171

6 of 30 No 5 of 30 No 12 of 30 No 26 of 30 No 19 of 30 No 10 of 30 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

44 74 of 85

48 31 of 85

25 85 of 85

48 29 of 85

56

9 of 85

44 52 of 85

58

6 of 29

53

5 of 29

56

4 of 29

34 28 of 29

61

3 of 29

52

5 of 29

44 73 of 85 33 85 of 85 33 75 of 85 25 85 of 85 16 85 of 85 30 85 of 85
56 11 of 30 53 4 of 30 39 23 of 30 51 10 of 30 39 24 of 30 47 17 of 30

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Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

153

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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154

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

155

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

156

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

157

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

158

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

159

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

160

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

161

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

162

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Proficiency Levels
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

45

6.7

44.4

48.9

93.3

7,566

13.7

50.8

35.6

86.3

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

24

16.7

41.7

41.7

83.3

7,207

12.0

45.0

43.0

88.0

124,872

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

24

8.3

58.3

33.3

91.7

7,119

10.7

57.9

31.5

89.3

123,653

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

25 6,610 124,746

4.0

52.0

44.0

96.0

6.1

55.4

38.5

93.9

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

42

0.0

59.5

40.5

100.0

6,976

13.3

56.8

29.8

86.7

127,269

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

37 6,875 126,232

2.7

43.2

54.1

97.3

8.7

50.0

41.2

91.3

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

45

2.2

55.6

42.2

97.8

7,577

19.9

56.2

23.9

80.1

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

24

8.3

62.5

29.2

91.7

7,203

18.5

53.0

28.4

81.5

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

164

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Grade 5 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average

24

12.5

58.3

29.2

87.5

7,132

10.4

60.0

29.5

89.6

123,571

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

25

0.0

68.0

32.0

100.0

6,608

14.2

61.1

24.7

85.8

124,615

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

42

0.0

52.4

47.6

100.0

6,972

14.2

50.8

35.0

85.8

126,992

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

36

2.8

38.9

58.3

97.2

6,881

12.6

54.9

32.5

87.4

126,011

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

CRCT MATH

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

45

20.0

37.8

42.2

80.0

7,669

32.0

37.2

30.8

68.0

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

24

29.2

62.5

8.3

70.8

7,245

32.3

41.3

26.4

67.7

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

24

29.2

33.3

37.5

70.8

7,151

23.6

46.7

29.6

76.4

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

25

16.0

80.0

4.0

84.0

6,590

27.1

53.8

19.1

72.9

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

42

4.8

83.3

11.9

95.2

6,942

25.9

51.7

22.5

74.1

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

35

25.7

45.7

28.6

74.3

6,884

35.0

46.1

18.9

65.0

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

Ivy Preparatory Academy at Kirkwood for Girls

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System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

45

6.7

55.6

37.8

93.3

7,808

35.9

37.8

26.3

64.1

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

24

41.7

54.2

4.2

58.3

7,427

32.3

37.3

30.5

67.7

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

80.9

24

33.3

50.0

16.7

66.7

7,398

33.8

39.4

26.9

66.2

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

25

32.0

64.0

4.0

68.0

6,814

42.0

45.1

12.9

58.0

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

43

14.0

65.1

20.9

86.0

7,139

32.3

39.3

28.4

67.7

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

37

24.3

73.0

2.7

75.7

7,025

37.9

48.0

14.1

62.1

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

45

4.4

40.0

55.6

95.6

7,707

27.4

47.3

25.3

72.6

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

24

37.5

62.5

0.0

62.5

7,343

33.1

48.8

18.1

66.9

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

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Grade 5 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Kirkwood District Average Statewide Average

24

29.2

70.8

0.0

70.8

7,332

33.9

49.7

16.4

66.1

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

25

24.0

60.0

16.0

76.0

6,786

35.0

34.6

30.3

65.0

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

43

11.6

51.2

37.2

88.4

7,116

31.4

34.5

34.1

68.6

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

37

18.9

62.2

18.9

81.1

6,976

35.2

42.9

21.9

64.8

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

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Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.3223 in elementary grades and -0.0616 in middle grades, meaning that Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy is below both the state and district average in elementary grades and not significantly different from the state and district average in middle grades.
In general, Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy's performance in elementary reading, math and science and in middle school social studies is weak relative to the state and district. However, its contribution to student achievement in middle school math is strong, exceeding both the state and district averages.
Performance at Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy generally declined in the elementary grades relative to the prior year, while performance in some middle school subjects showed improvement from 2012/13.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o below the state and district averages in elementary reading, elementary math, elementary science and middle school social studies, and below the state average in middle school science. o above the state average in middle school reading and above both the state and district averages in middle school math. o indistinguishable from the district and state average in elementary ELA and social studies as well as in middle school ELA.
General Characteristics

School Name
Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership
Academy

Calendar Year
Opened
2011

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades K-8

Curriculum Focus
College Preparatory curriculum for all students.

School Year
Extended Day/Week/
Year

Single- Gender School
Boys- Only

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
No

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
DeKalb County

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Students Served
School Name Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

0.0

1.5

95.7

1.8

0.3

70.6

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.0

8.9

Pct. Gifted
3.7

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.3223 Elementary / -0.0616 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0624 Elementary / - 0.0225 Middle
Ivy Preparatory Academy Young Men's Leadership Academy's contribution to an elementary student's average achievement across all five CRCT- tested subjects is less than the average elementary school in the state and district, and its contribution to a middle school student's cross-subject average achievement is not statistically different than that of the average middle school in the state and district. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.2072 -0.1430 -0.4430 -0.3944 -0.4343 -0.3223

2 Lower 8 No 1 Lower 1 Lower 1 No 1 Lower

84 of 85 Lower 79 of 85 No 83 of 85 Lower 84 of 85 Lower 81 of 85 No 84 of 85 Lower

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

40

2

82 of 85

38

5

83 of 85

23

1

84 of 85

32

1

82 of 85

25

2

83 of 85

31

1

84 of 85

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Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.1313 0.0359 0.1302 -0.1275 -0.4200 -0.0616

93 Higher 71 No 85 Higher 15 Lower
2 Lower 22 No

5 of 30 No 11 of 30 No
5 of 30 Higher 22 of 30 No 30 of 30 Lower 22 of 30 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

56

53

10 of 30

49

61

20 of 30

50

63

6 of 30

44

17

24 of 30

27

2

30 of 30

45

14

25 of 30

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Ivy Preparatory Academy Young Men's Leadership Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally lower in the elementary grades relative to its performance in 2012/13. The cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in elementary grades fell from -0.0589 in 2012/13 to -0.3223 in 2013/14. In middle grades the school's overall performance in 2013/14 was roughly on par with its performance in the prior year; the cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in the middle grades was -0.0616 compared to -0.1695. There were, however, substantial improvements in the school's estimated contribution to student achievement in middle school reading and ELA.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.0933 0.1069 -0.1621 -0.0668 -0.2730 -0.0589

21 of 85 No 7 of 85 No
52 of 85 No 39 of 85 No 72 of 85 No 42 of 85 No

-0.2072 -0.1430 -0.4430 -0.3944 -0.4343 -0.3223

84 of 85 Lower 79 of 85 No 83 of 85 Lower 84 of 85 Lower 81 of 85 No 84 of 85 Lower

-0.0990 -0.1412 -0.1696 -0.1815 -0.3371 -0.1695

26 of 29 27 of 29 22 of 29 23 of 29 27 of 29 27 of 29

No No No No Lower Lower

0.1313 0.0359 0.1302 -0.1275 -0.4200 -0.0616

5 of 30 No 11 of 30 No
5 of 30 Higher 22 of 30 No 30 of 30 Lower 22 of 30 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

56 15 of 85 49 26 of 85 43 47 of 85 46 43 of 85 39 63 of 85 47 40 of 85
52 19 of 29 40 27 of 29 43 19 of 29 44 19 of 29 31 26 of 29 42 24 of 29

40 82 of 85 38 83 of 85 23 84 of 85 32 82 of 85 25 83 of 85 31 84 of 85
56 10 of 30 49 20 of 30 50 6 of 30 44 24 of 30 27 30 of 30 45 25 of 30

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Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Ivy Preparatory Young Men's Leadership Academy Comparison District: DeKalb County
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Ivy Prep. - Young Mens Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Ivy Prep. - Kirkwood

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Ivy Prep. - Young Mens

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

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Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

41

9.8

65.9

24.4

90.2

7,566

13.7

50.8

35.6

86.3

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

24

8.3

54.2

37.5

91.7

7,207

12.0

45.0

43.0

88.0

124,872

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

16

31.3

56.3

12.5

68.8

7,119

10.7

57.9

31.5

89.3

123,653

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

25

16.0

56.0

28.0

84.0

6,610

6.1

55.4

38.5

93.9

124,746

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

49

16.3

67.3

16.3

83.7

6,976

13.3

56.8

29.8

86.7

127,269

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

39 6,875 126,232

0.0

53.8

46.2

100.0

8.7

50.0

41.2

91.3

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

41

17.1

63.4

19.5

82.9

7,577

19.9

56.2

23.9

80.1

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

24

20.8

62.5

16.7

79.2

7,203

18.5

53.0

28.4

81.5

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

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Grade 5

Ivy Prep Young Men's

16

25.0

62.5

12.5

75.0

District Average

7,132

10.4

60.0

29.5

89.6

Statewide Average

123,571

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

Grade 6

Ivy Prep Young Men's

24

12.5

66.7

20.8

87.5

District Average

6,608

14.2

61.1

24.7

85.8

Statewide Average

124,615

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

Grade 7

Ivy Prep Young Men's

49

22.4

57.1

20.4

77.6

District Average

6,972

14.2

50.8

35.0

85.8

Statewide Average

126,992

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

Grade 8

Ivy Prep Young Men's

39

10.3

51.3

38.5

89.7

District Average

6,881

12.6

54.9

32.5

87.4

Statewide Average

126,011

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT MATH

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

41

22.0

51.2

26.8

78.0

7,669

32.0

37.2

30.8

68.0

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

24

45.8

45.8

8.3

54.2

7,245

32.3

41.3

26.4

67.7

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

17

52.9

35.3

11.8

47.1

7,151

23.6

46.7

29.6

76.4

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

24

25.0

70.8

4.2

75.0

6,590

27.1

53.8

19.1

72.9

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

49

18.4

55.1

26.5

81.6

6,942

25.9

51.7

22.5

74.1

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

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Grade 8 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Ivy Prep Young Men's District Average Statewide Average

39

23.1

56.4

20.5

76.9

6,884

35.0

46.1

18.9

65.0

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

43

32.6

48.8

18.6

67.4

7,808

35.9

37.8

26.3

64.1

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

24

41.7

41.7

16.7

58.3

7,427

32.3

37.3

30.5

67.7

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

80.9

17

52.9

35.3

11.8

47.1

7,398

33.8

39.4

26.9

66.2

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

25

32.0

64.0

4.0

68.0

6,814

42.0

45.1

12.9

58.0

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

50

36.0

52.0

12.0

64.0

7,139

32.3

39.3

28.4

67.7

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

43

37.2

60.5

2.3

62.8

7,025

37.9

48.0

14.1

62.1

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

43

14.0

53.5

32.6

86.0

7,707

27.4

47.3

25.3

72.6

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

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Grade 4

Ivy Prep Young Men's

24

33.3

58.3

8.3

66.7

District Average

7,343

33.1

48.8

18.1

66.9

Statewide Average

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

Grade 5

Ivy Prep Young Men's

17

70.6

17.6

11.8

29.4

District Average

7,332

33.9

49.7

16.4

66.1

Statewide Average

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

Grade 6

Ivy Prep Young Men's

25

52.0

40.0

8.0

48.0

District Average

6,786

35.0

34.6

30.3

65.0

Statewide Average

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

Grade 7

Ivy Prep Young Men's

50

46.0

44.0

10.0

54.0

District Average

7,116

31.4

34.5

34.1

68.6

Statewide Average

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

Grade 8

Ivy Prep Young Men's

43

39.5

55.8

4.7

60.5

District Average

6,976

35.2

42.9

21.9

64.8

Statewide Average

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

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Mountain Education Center
Key Findings
Mountain Education Center's contribution to student achievement exceeds the state average in Math II, but falls below the state average in American Literature. Since the school serves students from multiple counties it does not have a district comparison group.
Compared to 2012/13, Mountain Education Center had a substantial increase in the contribution to student achievement in Math II but had a large decrease in 9th Grade Literature.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the state average in Math II. o below the state average in American Literature. o indistinguishable from the state average in 9th Grade Literature, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics and Physical Science and U.S. History.
General Characteristics

School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

EMO Affiliation

Mountain

Education

2007

No

Charter School

Grades 9-12

Curriculum Focus
Self-paced, individualized, evening high school for students struggling at other
schools

School Year Year-round

Single- Gender School
No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
Yes

Parental Involvement Requirement
No

Enrollment Restrictions
Students residing in State of GA

Students Served

School Name Mountain Education Center

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

49.7

90.7

5.3

0.1

3.7

72.9

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

2.1

14.0

Pct. Gifted
0.0

188
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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Mountain Education Center's contribution to student achievement is less than the state average in American Literature and greater than the state average in Math II. The table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area.

Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0498 -0.1565

67 No 13 Lower

-0.0198 -0.1002 0.0812 0.3140 0.0914 -0.0678

47 No 26 No 62 No 86 Higher 73 No 42 No

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

44

14

46

38

46

53

49

47

61

79

64

93

52

65

43

42

Mountain Education Center

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Mountain Education Center's performance in 2013/14 was similar to it performance in 2012/13 in most subjects. However, the school's contribution to student achievement in Math II rose from -0.0506 in 2012/13 to 0.3140 in 2013/14. Mountain Education Center's contribution to student achievement in 9th Grade Literature declined from 0.4303 to 0.0498. It also experienced a smaller decline in American Literature from -0.0020 to -0.1565

Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.4303 -0.0020

0.0498 -0.1565

0.0675
0.0413 -0.0506 0.0078 -0.0463

-0.0198 -0.1002 0.0812 0.3140 0.0914 -0.0678

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

65

44

40

46

50

46

49

60

61

51

64

55

52

37

43

Mountain Education Center

190

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Proficiency Levels

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Mountain Education Statewide Average American Literature Mountain Education Statewide Average Math II Mountain Education Statewide Average Biology Mountain Education Statewide Average US History Mountain Education Statewide Average Economics Mountain Education Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

37

8.1

64.9

27.0

91.9

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

83 93,689

8.4

63.9

27.7

91.6

7.5

50.7

41.9

92.6

41

63.4

36.6

4,946

77.4

22.2

0.0

36.6

0.3

22.5

62

27.4

51.6

21.0

72.6

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

104

27.9

44.2

27.9

72.1

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

159

19.5

50.9

29.6

80.5

59,564

18.8

39.1

42.1

81.2

191
Mountain Education Center

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy)
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.0694 in elementary grades and -0.0256 in middle grades, meaning that Odyssey School is below the state average in both elementary and middle school. The value-added estimates in 9th Grade Literature and American Literature are above state averages but below state averages for Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics and Physical Science. Because Georgia Cyber Academy serves students throughout Georgia, the school does not have a district comparison group.
In general, Odyssey School's strengths include reading and ELA at all levels and its weaknesses include math, science, and social studies at all levels.
The Odyssey School's performance in the elementary grades in 2013/14 is comparable to their performance in 2012/13. In middle school, the Odyssey School's performance improved overall.
The school's contribution to student achievement is: o above the state average in elementary reading and ELA, middle school reading and ELA and 9th Grade Literature and American Literature at the high school level. o below the state average in elementary math and science, middle school math, science, and social studies and high school Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics, Physical Science and U.S. History.
General Characteristics

School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

EMO Affiliation

Odyssey School

2004

None

Georgia Cyber

Academy (program of

2009

K-12

Odyssey School)

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

Multi-age classrooms

- students grouped

K-8

by skill level/Looping:

Normal

students remain with

teacher two years

Single- Gender School
No

K-12

Online Curriculum

Normal

No

Virtual/ Online School
No
Yes

Serves Multiple Counties
No
Yes

Parental Involvement Requirement

Enrollment Restrictions

18 hours per academic year

Coweta County Public Schools Zone

Not Specified

Students residing in State of GA

192
Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Students Served
School Name Odyssey School (including Georgia Cyber Academy)

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

50.1

60.1

34.4

1.3

2.1

90.6

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.2

12.6

Pct. Gifted
1.1

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.0694 Elementary / -0.0256 Middle
Odyssey School's contribution to an elementary student and a middle school student's average achievement across all five CRCT-tested subjects is less than the average elementary and middle school in the state. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area. At the high school level, the school's contribution to student achievement is above the state average in 9th Grade Literature and American Literature, but below the state average in Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics, Physical Science and U.S. History.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

0.0900 0.0539 -0.2435 -0.0856 -0.1635 -0.0694

82 Higher 72 Higher
7 Lower 26 Lower 19 No 26 Lower

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

49

31

46

41

33

8

44

18

44

32

43

16

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Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

Grade Level and Subject
Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

School Effect
0.1478 0.1280 -0.0971 -0.0467 -0.2648 -0.0256
0.2234 0.2245 -0.2586 -0.2082 -0.0867 -0.3351
-0.2394 -0.4012

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

95 Higher 94 Higher 21 Lower 33 Lower
7 Lower 36 Lower

96 Higher 95 Higher
8 Lower 12 Lower 31 Lower 10 Lower

10 Lower 7 Lower

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

56

54

52

82

41

21

44

17

36

6

46

19

57

85

50

67

42

24

32

9

48

42

50

49

39

16

27

7

194
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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
The Odyssey School's performance in the elementary grades in 2013/14 is on par with their performance in 2014/15. In 2013/14 their cross- subject average contribution to student achievement in elementary was -0.0694 compared to -0.0559 in 2012/13. In middle school, the school's performance generally improved in 2013/14; the cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in middle grades was -0.3500 in 2012/13 and -0.0256 in 2013/14. At the high school level, results were generally similar from one year to the next.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.1632 0.0634 -0.1992 -0.0941 -0.1978 -0.0559

0.0900 0.0539 -0.2435 -0.0856 -0.1635 -0.0694

0.1734 0.1057 -0.1239 -0.0686 -0.2542 -0.0350

0.1478 0.1280 -0.0971 -0.0467 -0.2648 -0.0256

0.1689 0.1578

0.2234 0.2245

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

52

49

49

46

39

33

44

44

43

44

45

43

57

56

51

52

42

41

44

44

34

36

46

46

57

57

36

50

195
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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade Level and Subject
Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

-0.2300 -0.2096

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

-0.2586 -0.2082 -0.0867 -0.3351

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

-0.2327 -0.3975

-0.2394 -0.4012

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

42

32

32

42

48

50

35

39

29

27

196
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Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 3 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 4 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 5 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 6 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 7 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 8 Odyssey School Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 4 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 5 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 6 Odyssey School Statewide Average

CRCT Reading

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

798

13.3

42.4

44.4

86.7

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

809 124,872

8.9

42.3

48.8

91.1

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

873 123,653

8.4

47.7

44.0

91.6

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

1,089 124,746

2.1

42.4

55.5

97.9

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

1,378 127,269

5.0

51.2

43.8

95.0

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

1,511 126,232

2.9

42.8

54.3

97.1

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

797

20.1

52.9

27.0

79.9

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

801

17.1

49.6

33.3

82.9

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

874

10.0

54.7

35.4

90.0

123,571

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

1,088 124,615

8.2

57.8

34.0

91.8

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

197
Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade 7 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 8 Odyssey School Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 4 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 5 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 6 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 7 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 8 Odyssey School Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 4 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 5 Odyssey School Statewide Average

1,367 126,992

7.1

46.2

46.7

92.9

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

1,500 126,011

6.9

48.9

44.1

93.1

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

CRCT MATH

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

798

36.8

33.0

30.2

63.2

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

799

33.7

37.9

28.4

66.3

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

870

32.4

44.0

23.6

67.6

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

1,071

24.0

55.6

20.4

76.0

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

1,355

15.9

57.3

26.8

84.1

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

1,485

35.1

48.6

16.3

64.9

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

803

31.6

36.1

32.3

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

823

26.4

39.5

34.1

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

886

25.4

40.2

34.4

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy)

68.4 77.1
73.6 80.9
74.6 81.9
198

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Grade 6 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 7 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 8 Odyssey School Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 4 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 5 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 6 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 7 Odyssey School Statewide Average Grade 8 Odyssey School Statewide Average

1,111

27.6

54.0

18.4

72.4

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

1,408

20.2

46.2

33.5

79.8

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

1,533

29.2

55.5

15.3

70.8

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

801

32.2

49.6

18.2

67.8

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

821

30.9

54.0

15.1

69.1

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

881

28.9

52.3

18.7

71.1

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

1,106

35.7

39.4

24.9

64.3

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

1,400

30.8

39.4

29.9

69.2

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

1,525

30.9

50.7

18.4

69.1

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

199
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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Odyssey School Statewide Average American Literature Odyssey School Statewide Average Math II Odyssey School Statewide Average Biology Odyssey School Statewide Average US History Odyssey School Statewide Average Economics Odyssey School Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

1,198

9.2

45.7

45.2

90.9

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

728 93,689

7.0

49.0

44.0

93.0

7.5

50.7

41.9

92.6

5

---

---

4,946

77.4

22.2

---

0.3

22.5

1,218

44.8

42.2

13.0

55.2

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

697

52.2

31.6

16.2

47.8

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

56

42.9

37.5

19.6

57.1

59,564

18.8

39.1

42.1

81.2

200
Odyssey School (Including Georgia Cyber Academy)

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Pataula Charter Academy
Key Findings
The value-added estimate of the school's impact on a student's average achievement across all subjects is -0.0091 in elementary grades and -0.0332 in middle grades, meaning that Pataula Charter Academy is not significantly different than the state average in elementary and middle grades. At the high school level, the value-added estimates in 9th Grade Literature, Analytic Geometry and Physical Science are all above the state average.
In general, Pataula Charter Academy's performance is strong in middle school social studies relative to the five-county area it serves, but its performance in middle school science is weak relative to the state average. The school's performance is also strong in high school 9th Grade Literature, Physical Science, and Analytic Geometry where its contribution to student achievement exceeds the state average.
Relative to 2012/13, Pataula Charter Academy's performance is generally equivalent in 2013/14. The school's contribution to student achievement is:
o above the five-county average in middle school social studies, above the state and five-county averages in Physical Science and above the state average in 9th Grade Literature and Analytic Geometry.
o below the state average in middle school science. o indistinguishable from both the state and five-county average in all five CRCT-tested subjects in elementary and in middle school
reading, ELA and math as well as in Coordinate Algebra at the high school level.
General Characteristics

School Name

Calendar Year
Opened

Pataula Charter Academy

2010

EMO Affiliation
No

Grades Curriculum Focus School Year

Expeditionary

Learning: project

based lectures and

K-9

curriculum

Normal

delivery/Looping:

students remain with

teacher for two years

Single- Gender School
No

Virtual/ Online School
No

Serves Multiple Counties
Yes

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
Students residing in
Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph Public School districts

201
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Students Served
School Name Pataula Charter Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

46.2

78.6

13.6

1.2

4.9

59.9

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

3.1

10.3

Pct. Gifted
6.6

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Overall School Effect: -0.0091 Elementary / -0.0332 Middle Overall District Effect: -0.0207 Elementary/-0.0540 Middle
Pataula Charter Academy's contribution to an elementary student and a middle school student's average achievement across all five CRCT- tested subjects is not statistically different from the average elementary and middle school in the state and five surrounding county districts. It is important to note that averaging achievement scores across subjects masks any variation in school performance between subject areas. As a result, the table below includes the school's effect on student achievement in each subject area. At the high school level, Pataula Charter Academy's contribution to student achievement exceeded the state and five-county district averages in 9th Grade Literature, Analytic Geometry and Physical Science; it was not significantly different from either the state or five-county averages in Coordinate Algebra.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.0234 0.0136 -0.0156 -0.0553 0.0028

40 No 54 No 46 No 35 No 51 No

4 of 6

No

4 of 6

No

3 of 6

No

3 of 6

No

3 of 6

No

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

46

16

5 of 6

51

74

1 of 6

43

35

3 of 6

47

28

3 of 6

50

54

4 of 6

Pataula Charter Academy

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Grade Level and Subject
All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect -0.0091

State Percentile (higher is
better)
46

Statistically Different From State Average?
No

District Rank (lower is better)
3 of 6

Statistically Different From
District Average?
No

0.0440 -0.0283 -0.0886 -0.1229 0.0127 -0.0332

69 No 37 No 23 No 15 Lower 51 No 32 No

2 of 6 5 of 6 5 of 6 3 of 6 1 of 6 2 of 6

No No No No Higher No

0.3183

99 Higher

2 of 6

No

0.3016

90 Higher

1 of 5

No

0.0945

75 No

3 of 6

No

0.4804

98 Higher

1 of 6

Higher

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs
48

State Percentile (higher is
better)
41

District Rank (lower is better)
3 of 6

55

45

4 of 6

49

57

3 of 6

41

20

1 of 6

48

37

3 of 6

47

37

3 of 6

48

31

3 of 6

69

99

2 of 6

78

99

1 of 5

64

93

1 of 6

65

95

1 of 6

Pataula Charter Academy

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Relative to 2012/13, Pataula Charter Academy's performance is generally equivalent in 2013/14. The school's cross-subject average contribution to student achievement in elementary was virtually unchanged, moving from -0.0045 in 2012/13 to -0.0091 in 2013/14. Similarly, there was little change in the cross-subject average contribution to student achievement; in 2012/13 it was 0.0025 and in 2013/14 it was -0.0332. No year- to-year comparison can be made at the high school level because Pataula Charter Academy did not serve any high school grades in 2012/13.

Grade Level and Subject
Elementary Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average Middle Reading ELA Math Science Social Studies All-Subject Average

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.0463

1 of 6

No -0.0234

4 of 6

No

-0.0925

4 of 6

No 0.0136

4 of 6

No

0.0694

3 of 6

No -0.0156

3 of 6

No

-0.1610

5 of 6

No -0.0553

3 of 6

No

0.1182

1 of 6

Higher 0.0028

3 of 6

No

-0.0045

3 of 6

No -0.0091

3 of 6

No

0.0215 0.0133 -0.0816 0.0203 0.0052 0.0025

2 of 6 4 of 6 4 of 6 2 of 6 2 of 6 2 of 6

No No No No Higher No

0.0440 -0.0283 -0.0886 -0.1229 0.0127 -0.0332

2 of 6 5 of 6 5 of 6 3 of 6 1 of 6 2 of 6

No No No No Higher No

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

54

1 of 6

44

2 of 6

48

4 of 6

44

5 of 6

52

2 of 6

49

2 of 6

57

2 of 6

55

1 of 6

50

1 of 6

58

2 of 6

48

3 of 6

54

2 of 6

46

5 of 6

51

1 of 6

43

3 of 6

47

3 of 6

50

4 of 6

48

3 of 6

55

4 of 6

49

3 of 6

41

1 of 6

48

3 of 6

47

3 of 6

48

3 of 6

Pataula Charter Academy

204

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.3183

2 of 6 No

0.3016

1 of 5 No

0.0945

3 of 6 No

0.4804

1 of 6 Higher

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

69

2 of 6

78

1 of 5

64

1 of 6

65

1 of 6

Pataula Charter Academy

205

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Comparison of School Impact Subject Area: All-Subject Elementary Average State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

206
Pataula Charter Academy

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: All-Subject Middle Average State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

207

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Reading State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Pataula

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

208

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary ELA State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

209

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Mathematics State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

210

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Science State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

211

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Elementary Social Studies State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

212

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Reading State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

213

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle ELA State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Pataula

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

214

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Mathematics State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7
Pataula

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Pataula

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

215

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Science State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

216

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Middle Social Studies State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

217

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: 9th Grade Literature State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

218

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014
Subject Area: Analytical Geometry State Charter: Pataula Charter Academy Comparison Districts: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, and Randolph
School Value-Added Estimate with 95% Confidence Intervals (Mean Effect with all controls across all Georgia public schools= 0)

Pataula

School FE in Std. Dev. Units -.7 -.6 -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Mean Student Growth Percentile (Median SGP across all Georgia public school students = 50)

Pataula

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Mean SGP in Percentile Units

0

State Charters

Local Charters

Traditional

Pataula Charter Academy

219

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Proficiency Levels

System Name
Grade 3 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average

N Tested

CRCT Reading

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

41

4.9

53.7

41.5

95.1

313

15.3

56.2

28.4

84.7

126,745

7.7

46.5

45.9

92.3

45 325 124,872

2.2

46.7

51.1

97.8

9.8

52.3

37.8

90.2

6.4

41.3

52.3

93.6

44

2.3

45.5

52.3

97.7

292

15.4

66.1

18.5

84.6

123,653

5.2

53.1

41.7

94.8

46 346 124,746

4.3

56.5

39.1

95.7

5.2

62.1

32.7

94.8

2.8

47.6

49.6

97.2

38 313 127,269

7.9

47.4

44.7

92.1

7.0

66.5

26.5

93.0

5.3

53.0

41.7

94.7

43 332 126,232

2.3

30.2

67.4

97.7

6.9

63.9

29.2

93.1

3.0

43.7

53.2

97.0

CRCT ELA

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

42

7.1

66.7

26.2

92.9

313

18.2

61.3

20.4

81.8

127,032

11.5

56.1

32.3

88.5

44

6.8

61.4

31.8

93.2

323

18.6

63.8

17.6

81.4

124,719

11.3

54.0

34.8

88.7

Pataula Charter Academy

220

State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Grade 5 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average

44

0.0

52.3

47.7

100.0

293

11.3

70.3

18.4

88.7

123,571

5.3

55.6

39.2

94.7

46

6.5

76.1

17.4

93.5

347

12.7

70.0

17.3

87.3

124,615

8.2

59.6

32.2

91.8

38 315 126,992

5.3

55.3

39.5

94.7

6.0

56.8

37.1

94.0

6.1

46.6

47.3

93.9

43 331 126,011

4.7

48.8

46.5

95.3

8.5

66.2

25.4

91.5

5.5

50.3

44.3

94.5

CRCT MATH

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

41

7.3

48.8

43.9

92.7

312

28.8

44.2

26.9

71.2

127,519

19.3

36.7

44.0

80.7

44

9.1

68.2

22.7

90.9

323

28.5

55.4

16.1

71.5

124,706

18.3

42.6

39.0

81.7

44

4.5

40.9

54.5

95.5

289

21.8

49.8

28.4

78.2

123,006

12.3

43.8

43.8

87.7

46

10.9

73.9

15.2

89.1

347

25.6

66.6

7.8

74.4

124,070

15.9

55.8

28.3

84.1

38

10.5

52.6

36.8

89.5

313

15.0

55.9

29.1

85.0

126,420

12.4

50.2

37.4

87.6

43

20.9

65.1

14.0

79.1

333

31.5

53.2

15.3

68.5

125,259

18.5

47.5

34.1

81.5

Pataula Charter Academy

221

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System Name
Grade 3 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 5 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 6 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 7 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 8 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average
System Name
Grade 3 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average Grade 4 Pataula Charter Five-County Average Statewide Average

CRCT SCIENCE

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

42

16.7

42.9

40.5

83.3

318

32.1

47.8

20.1

67.9

129,662

22.9

41.1

35.9

77.1

45

8.9

60.0

31.1

91.1

328

33.8

44.2

22.0

66.2

127,657

19.1

38.0

42.9

80.9

45

11.1

35.6

53.3

88.9

293

37.5

44.7

17.7

62.5

127,252

18.1

39.8

42.1

81.9

46

37.0

52.2

10.9

63.0

351

45.9

45.3

8.8

54.1

127,590

24.9

52.4

22.7

75.1

39

17.9

43.6

38.5

82.1

321

31.5

43.9

24.6

68.5

129,848

15.8

38.0

46.2

84.2

42

14.3

64.3

21.4

85.7

333

44.4

49.5

6.0

55.6

128,936

22.1

52.9

25.0

77.9

CRCT SOCIAL STUDIES

N Tested

% Did not meet the standard

% Meets the standard

% Exceeds the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

42

14.3

54.8

31.0

85.7

318

20.4

56.3

23.3

79.6

129,137

16.3

47.7

35.9

83.7

45

8.9

71.1

20.0

91.1

328

27.4

53.0

19.5

72.6

127,178

18.8

51.1

30.0

81.2

Pataula Charter Academy

222

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Grade 5

Pataula Charter

45

17.8

42.2

40.0

82.2

Five-County Average

293

30.4

55.6

14.0

69.6

Statewide Average

126,802

19.3

53.8

26.9

80.7

Grade 6

Pataula Charter

46

17.4

54.3

28.3

82.6

Five-County Average

351

39.0

41.3

19.7

61.0

Statewide Average

127,200

20.2

35.1

44.8

79.8

Grade 7

Pataula Charter

39

15.4

25.6

59.0

84.6

Five-County Average

321

25.5

43.6

30.8

74.5

Statewide Average

129,400

16.5

30.5

53.0

83.5

Grade 8

Pataula Charter

42

9.5

54.8

35.7

90.5

Five-County Average

332

34.9

50.9

14.2

65.1

Statewide Average

128,365

19.4

44.4

36.2

80.6

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Pataula Charter Five-County Average19 Statewide Average Analytic Geometry Pataula Charter Five-County Average20 Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

36

5.6

36.1

58.3

94.4

311

23.8

58.8

17.4

76.2

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

20

15.0

70.0

15.0

85.0

269

83.3

16.0

0.74

16.7

97,659

65.4

28.9

5.7

34.6

19 Only four counties took the 9th Grade Literature exam: Calhoun, Clay, Early and Randolph County
Schools 20 Only three counties took the Analytical Geometry exam: Calhoun, Early and Randolph County Schools

Pataula Charter Academy

223

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Provost Academy
Key Findings
In general, Provost Academy performance in American Literature, Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics, Math II, Physical Science and U.S. History is weak relative to the state. Because the school serves students throughout the state it does not have a district comparison group.
Provost Academy's performance in 2013/14 is somewhat weaker than in 2012/13. The school's contribution to student achievement is:
o below the state average in American Literature, Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics, Math II, Physical Science and U.S. History.
o indistinguishable from the state average in 9th Grade Literature.
General Characteristics

School Name
Provost Academy

Calendar Year
Opened

EMO Affiliation

Grades

2012

No

9-12

Curriculum Focus Online Curriculum

School Year

Single- Gender School

Virtual/ Online School

Serves Multiple Counties

Normal

No

Yes

Online

Parental Involvement Requirement
Not Specified

Enrollment Restrictions
Students residing in State of GA

Students Served
School Name Provost Academy

Pct. Female Pct. White

Pct.

Pct. Pct. Other

Pct.

Black Hispanic

FRL

51.1

28.5

62.4

1.6

7.0

15.9

Pct. Pct. SWD

LEP

0.0

11.6

Pct. Gifted
0.0

224
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State Charter Schools Performance Evaluation, 2013-2014

Value-Added and SGP Results Summary by Grade Level and Subject
Provost Academy's contribution to student achievement was below the state average in American Literature, Analytic Geometry, Biology, Coordinate Algebra, Economics, Math II, Physical Science and U.S. History; it was not significantly different from the state average in 9th Grade Literature.

Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

State Percentile (higher is
better)

Statistically Different From State Average?

District Rank (lower is better)

Statistically Different From
District Average?

-0.0349 -0.1480 -0.3882 -0.1998 -0.3199 -0.4493 -0.4450 -0.3824 -0.4703

38 No 14 Lower
2 Lower 13 Lower
3 Lower 5 Lower 4 Lower 3 Lower 5 Lower

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

School Mean of Individual
SGPs

State Percentile (higher is
better)

District Rank (lower is better)

69

99

37

5

35

15

34

4

61

79

37

10

27

2

26

7

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225

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Comparison of 2013/14 and 2012/13 Value-Added and SGP Summary Results
Provost Academy's performance in 2013/14 is generally somewhat weaker than in 2012/13. Its estimated contribution to student achievement fell by more than 0.15 standard deviations in three subjects and increased by more than 0.15 standard deviations in just one subject..

Grade Level and Subject
High 9th Grade Literature American Literature Analytic Geometry Biology Coordinate Algebra Economics Math II Physical Science U.S. History

Value-Added (Controls for Student Demographics and Prior Test Scores)

School Effect

2012/13
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

School Effect

2013/14
District Rank (lower is better)

Statistic- ally
Different From District
Average?

0.1668 0.0233
-0.2831 -0.3020 -0.3012 -0.6350 -0.1548 -0.4902

-0.0349 -0.1480 -0.3882 -0.1998 -0.3199 -0.4493 -0.4450 -0.3824 -0.4703

Note: statistical significance based on a 95 percent confidence level.

Student Growth Percentiles

2012/13

School District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

2013/14

School

District

Mean of

Rank

Individual (lower is

SGPs

better)

56

69

37

37

30

35

29

34

33

61

17

37

43

27

20

26

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Proficiency Levels

System Name
9TH Grade Literature Provost Academy Statewide Average American Literature Provost Academy Statewide Average Math II Provost Academy Statewide Average Biology Provost Academy Statewide Average US History Provost Academy Statewide Average Economics Provost Academy Statewide Average

END OF COURSE TEST

N Tested

% Did Not Meet the standard

% Met the standard

% Exceeded the standard

% Met or Exceeded the standard

96

22.9

53.1

24.0

77.1

112,505

12.3

45.1

42.6

87.7

128

14.8

60.9

24.2

85.1

93,689

7.5

50.7

41.9

92.6

37

91.9

8.1

4,946

77.4

22.2

0.0

8.1

0.3

22.5

131

70.2

26.7

3.1

29.8

109,030

25.0

41.1

33.9

75.0

146

68.5

26.0

5.5

31.5

93,645

27.2

32.6

40.2

72.8

146

52.1

40.4

7.5

47.9

59,564

18.8

39.1

42.1

81.2

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