NORRIS SCHOOL
DISTRICT 160
1999-00 SCHOOL
YEAR
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The State Board of Education approved an Accountability Reporting Policy on October 1, 1998 based upon the belief that reporting public school performance to the residents of the local district and to the Department of Education is critical to improving the quality of education in Nebraska. The policy stipulates that the information reported should:
ü Make the school district
accountable to the public,
ü Assist the school district’s
board of education and administration in focusing programs and resources, and
ü Support local efforts to
provide improved services and programs to students.
Although the design of said report is left to the
discretion of the local school district, the State Board of Education policy
requires school districts to report the information described on the following
pages. This helps to assure consistency
from school district to school district, which is especially important for
information forwarded to the Department of Education.
Information on student achievement, school system
performance, school district resources for instructional support, and financial
resource allocation and expenditures are to be reported both locally and to the
State Department of Education. Student
and program data and school improvement goals and progress are to be reported
to patrons of the local school district only.
Districts are not required to report this information until the
1999-2000 school year. However, Norris
School District 160 has chosen to combine all of this information into one
report and provide it to residents of our district and to the State Department
of Education beginning this school year.
Most of the information is from the 1999-00 school year. However, some information is from the
1998-99 school year because information for the current school year was not
available for at the time of this publication.
The scores below are from the California Achievement Test (grades 3, 5, 7, 9) and the Terra Nova Test (grades 4, 8, 11) given this spring. These scores represent how the median (middle) Norris student did when compared with students from across the country that makes up the norm group for the particular test. For instance the median or middle 3rd grade student from Norris scored better than 83% of the students in the norm group in reading vocabulary on the California Achievement Test.
Grade
|
3 |
4 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
11 |
Reading
Vocabulary
|
83 |
70 |
68 |
70 |
73 |
66 |
65 |
|
Reading
Comprehension |
84 |
75 |
63 |
76 |
68 |
64 |
70 |
|
Total Reading |
85 |
72 |
67 |
74 |
74 |
68 |
68 |
|
Language Mechanics |
64 |
76 |
86 |
79 |
66 |
77 |
66 |
|
Language
Expression |
73 |
77 |
76 |
73 |
63 |
79 |
61 |
|
Total Language |
73 |
79 |
79 |
76 |
65 |
81 |
65 |
|
Math Computation |
83 |
71 |
74 |
70 |
73 |
86 |
66 |
|
Math Concepts
& Apply |
83 |
66 |
85 |
84 |
67 |
86 |
73 |
|
Total Math |
85 |
72 |
82 |
79 |
68 |
86 |
71 |
|
Composite |
81 |
72 |
80 |
76 |
69 |
83 |
67 |
|
Word Analysis |
61 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spelling |
66 |
61 |
66 |
61 |
68 |
68 |
57 |
|
Study Skills |
|
|
61 |
67 |
|
66 |
|
|
Science |
|
79 |
|
76 |
71 |
67 |
68 |
|
Social Studies |
|
67 |
|
76 |
67 |
77 |
68 |
After this year, this information above will be reported for grades 4, 8, and 11 only and will be broken down by gender, socio-economic status, special education, and longevity of enrollment.
Individual Reading Inventories, assessments to measure individual student reading level, indicate that approximately:
95 percent of the students in grade 1 are reading at or above grade level,
90 percent of the students in grade 2 are reading at or above grade level, and
80 percent of the students in grade 3 are at or above grade level.
The California Achievement Test scores for 3rd graders during the spring of the 1999-2000 school year indicate that the median student is performing:
13 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in reading vocabulary
14 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in reading comprehension
15 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in total reading
3 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in language mechanics
1 percentage point above his/her anticipated level in language expression
5 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in total language
16 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in math computation
11 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in math analysis and concepts
13 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in total mathematics
10 percentage points above his/her anticipated level in the total battery
The actual median score for the 1999-2000 3rd grade class for each area of the California Achievement Test is listed in the table above.
ACT average composite score and percent of seniors
taking the test
94 seniors (approximately 75%) took the ACT test during the 1998-99 school year and scored as follows compared to state and national averages. Core results are for students who completed 4 years of English and three or more years of mathematics, science, and social studies. Non-core results are for students who completed less than this number of courses.
|
|
Norris |
State |
National |
|
English-Core |
23.1 |
22.3 |
21.6 |
|
English-Non Core |
17.8 |
19.2 |
18.7 |
|
Math-Core |
22.8 |
22.4 |
21.8 |
|
Math–Non Core |
18.4 |
19.3 |
18.9 |
|
Reading-Core |
22.7 |
22.9 |
22.4 |
|
Reading-Non Core |
17.2 |
20.0 |
19.8 |
|
Science-Core |
23.2 |
22.4 |
21.9 |
|
Science-Non Core |
20.6 |
20.1 |
19.6 |
|
Composite-Core |
23.1 |
22.6 |
22.0 |
|
Composite-Non Core |
18.6 |
19.8 |
19.4 |
The enrollment figures below were compiled on the last Friday in the month of September for the current (1999-00) school year.
|
Pre-School |
16 |
|
K |
99 |
|
1 |
97 |
|
2 |
99 |
|
3 |
110 |
|
4 |
105 |
|
5 |
93 |
|
6 |
106 |
|
7 |
123 |
|
8 |
102 |
|
9 |
116 |
|
10 |
136 |
|
11 |
119 |
|
12 |
123 |
|
Midlands |
25 |
|
Total |
1469 |
|
|
Ratio |
|
General Education |
1 teacher per 19.10 students |
|
Special Education |
1 teacher per 18.26 students |
|
Title I |
1 teacher per 39.5 students |
` The average class sizes for the 1999-00 school year in the table below were computed by dividing the total number of students enrolled in that grade by the number of teachers assigned to that grade. At the secondary level (grades 6-12), the average class sizes were computed for reading, English, mathematics, science, and social studies classes only.
|
Pre-School |
7 |
|
K |
19-20 |
|
1 |
19-20 |
|
2 |
24-25 |
|
3 |
22 |
|
4 |
26-27 |
|
5 |
23-24 |
|
6 |
26-27 |
|
7 |
24-25 |
|
8 |
20-21 |
|
9 |
23-24 |
|
10 |
22-23 |
|
11 |
23-24 |
|
12 |
24-25 |
The following table illustrates the average number of children enrolled in given grade levels during the 1998-99 school year (ADM) and the average number of children in attendance each day school was in session (ADA).
|
|
Average Daily Membership |
Average Daily Attendance |
|
K |
102 |
99 |
|
1 |
94 |
93 |
|
2 |
122 |
113 |
|
3 |
108 |
102 |
|
4 |
92 |
89 |
|
5 |
103 |
100 |
|
6 |
116 |
112 |
|
7 |
98 |
94 |
|
8 |
117 |
112 |
|
9 |
135 |
129 |
|
10 |
120 |
114 |
|
11 |
129 |
123 |
|
12 |
117 |
109 |
The table below shows the number of dropouts and number of expulsions during the 1998-99 school year with the rate or percent in parenthesis after the number:
|
|
Grade 9 |
Grade 10 |
Grade 11 |
Grade 12 |
|
Number of Dropouts |
1 (1.0%) |
3 (2.5%) |
2 (1.5%) |
5 (4.0%) |
|
Number of Expulsions |
2 (1.5%) |
0 (0.0%) |
1 (1.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
Of the 126 twelfth grade students enrolled at Norris in the fall of the 1998-99 school year, 10 graduated at the end of first semester and 111 graduated in the spring at the end of second semester for a graduate rate of 96%. Five students (4%) dropped out before graduating as indicated in the table above.
The table below lists the number of students who are new to the Norris
School District for the 1999-00 school year either by optioning or moving into
the district since last school year and the number of students who have
optioned or moved from the Norris School District since last school
year.
|
Number of new students optioning into Norris during 1999-00 school year |
44 |
|
Number of new students who moved to Norris district since end of 1998-99 school year |
79 |
|
Number of students who optioned from the Norris to another district this school year |
16 |
|
Number of students who moved from the Norris district since end of last school year |
55 |
It should be noted that the total number of students optioned into the Norris School District during the 1999-00 school year including the 44 students above is 117. The total number of students optioned out of the Norris School District including the 16 students above is 78.
The table below indicates the number of children in each building who come from families whose income and number of family members meets federal guidelines for poverty levels.
|
|
Elementary |
Middle School |
High School |
|
Number of Children Qualifying for Free Meals |
34 |
17 |
33 |
|
Number of Children Qualifying for Reduced Price Meals |
30 |
5 |
13 |
|
Percent Whose Income Meets Poverty Guidelines |
11 |
7 |
9 |
The following chart shows the number of verified special education students per grade level for the 1999-00 school year. Most of these students have only one handicapping condition, although some have more than one. The most common handicapping condition is SLD (specific learning disability) and is usually associated with reading and/or writing ability. 55 of the 224 students receive language services from the sc