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Interactive Map: High School SAT scores

Interactive Map: Elementary and Middle School Student Growth Measures

Welcome to the new math that will calculate how New Jersey’s public schools are going to be publicly judged and measured. And beware, it’s going to take some getting used to.
The Christie administration yesterday finally released its “School Performance Reports” for 2011-2012, a new version of the long-running School Reports Cards that have been an annual spring rite since the mid-1990s.

And while the new reports use many of the same sources of data as years past, they add a layer of interpretation as to what the data means -- at least as the Christie administration sees it.

Does a school match up to its counterparts? Are students gaining on their peers? Which schools are hitting their state-defined targets? Are students on track to be “college and career ready” -- starting in elementary school?
The state’s new multipage and color-coded report for every school – 15 pages for elementary schools, 11 for high schools -- seeks to answer a few of those questions, relying on a series of new tools and methods.
For the first time, for example, elementary and middle schools are being judged not only on overall proficiency on the state’s language arts and math NJASK tests, but also using the new “student growth percentiles” (SGP).

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