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2023-24 Guide to Calculating School Grades, District Grades, and the Federal Percent of Points Index
Download full textFlorida Department of Education, 2024
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The purpose of this technical guide is to provide a description of the procedures used to determine school…
Descriptors: School Districts, Grading, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation
2017-18 Guide to Calculating School Grades, District Grades, and the Federal Percent of Points Index
Florida Department of Education, 2019
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The school grades calculation was revised substantially for the 2014-15 school year to implement statutory…
Descriptors: School Districts, Grading, Guidelines, Annual Reports
2018-19 Guide to Calculating School Grades, District Grades, and the Federal Percent of Points Index
Florida Department of Education, 2019
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The school grades calculation was revised substantially for the 2014-15 school year to implement statutory…
Descriptors: School Districts, Grading, Guidelines, Annual Reports
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, 2014
School grades were introduced in Florida in 1999, the first such A-F model for reporting on school accountability in the nation. The purpose of school grades was to make it easy for parents and citizens to understand and compare how schools were performing academically, and to compel low-performing schools to improve. Since then, the A-F grades…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Scoring Formulas, Student Evaluation
Florida Department of Education, 2017
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The school grades calculation was revised substantially for the 2014-15 school year to implement statutory…
Descriptors: School Districts, Grading, Guidelines, Annual Reports
Florida Department of Education, 2016
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The school grades calculation was revised substantially for the 2014-15 school year to implement statutory…
Descriptors: School Districts, Guidelines, Grading, Annual Reports
Direct linkSouthern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
Superintendents and principals can have a positive and decisive impact on student achievement and higher graduation rates. Their essential leadership can illuminate the path to excellence for faculty and students. In upgrading curriculum and instruction, school leaders need to keep abreast of practices proven effective in other districts and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Best Practices, High Achievement, Graduation Rate
Peer reviewedAhmed, Ayesha; Pollitt, Alastair – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
At the heart of most assessments lies a set of questions, and those who write them must achieve "two" things. Not only must they ensure that each question elicits the kind of performance that shows how "good" pupils are at the subject, but they must also ensure that each mark scheme gives more marks to those who are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Gordon, Michael E.; Herzog, Gregory E.; Potenza, Joseph A. – College and University, 2008
Throughout classrooms in the United States there appears to have been a general watering down of academic standards. The percentages of "A" and "B" grades have risen, and at some schools, the percentage of grades of "C" or lower has plummeted. Numerous scholarly articles about grade inflation discuss the extent,…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Scholarship, Academic Standards, Grading
