DOCUMENT RESUME ED 434 117 TM 030 078 Information Works! Measuring Rhode Island Schools for TITLE Change, 1999. INSTITUTION Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. 1999-00-00 PUB DATE NOTE 891p.; For the statewide analysis, see TM 030 077. AVAILABLE FROM The National Center for Public Education and Social Policy at University of Rhode Island, Shepard Building, 80 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903; Tel: 401-277-5045 (hardcopy, $30). PUB TYPE Numerical/Quantitative Data (110) -- Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF06/PC36 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Academic Achievement; *Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; *Institutional Characteristics; *School Districts; School Statistics; *Standardized Tests; State Programs; State Surveys; Student Characteristics; Tables (Data); *Test Results IDENTIFIERS *Rhode Island ABSTRACT This document reports results from Rhode Island state standardized assessments with a particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy. These results are presented in the context of individual schools and school districts by illustrating the characteristics of student populations and indicators of each school's climate (such as graduation and suspension rates), and in light of the district's financial resources. The report also provides select information from the School Accountability for Learning and Teaching (SALT) Surveys that students, teachers, parents, and administrators completed for the first time in 1998. School targets for improvement are also described. Each graphic summary paints a unique portrait of each public school and school district in Rhode Island. Information is given for the state's 36 school districts, the state operated schools, and area career and technical schools. Information is provided about the use and interpretation of the data, with some comments on data collection and the quality of the information gathered. (SLD) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND EDUCATION 01 lice of Educational Research and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION HAS BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) I"F; document has beer reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. O THE EDUCATIONAL Points of view or opinions , stated in this RESOURCES document do not necessarily represent INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) official OERI position or policy. - IV CO N. O CD O State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Lincoln, C. Almond Governor Rhode Island Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education Frederick, Lippitt, Esq Chairman Robert J. Canavan Vice-Chair Jo Eva Gaines Secretary Representative Paul W. Crowley James Di Prete Sally Dowling Sue P. Duff Mary Sylvia Harrison Patricia Houlihan Senator Michael J. Lenihan Vidal P. Perez The Board of Regents does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, sex, secual orientation, race, religion, national origin or disability. rimy Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 3 Olmeavorramiliorm Mrovka I Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 3 April 1999 Dear Fellow Rhode Islanders: During the last few years there has been a noticeable shift in activity on the state's educational landscape. Schools and school districts are focusing on student results in the context of state expectations of performance, they are using a wealth of data to plan for progress, and conversations about improving schools are increasingly well informed. This focus has been deliberate, and it is in the spirit of nourishing the dialogue that we present the second edition of Information Works! Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change. Information Works! spotlights state priorities. We do this to provide schools and their communities with guideposts as they map out their plans for school improvement. For example, like last year's document, the 1999 report shares results from the state assessments, or tests, with a particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy. We share these results in the context of the school, by illustrating the characteristics of a stu- dent population, indicators of a school's climate, such as graduation and suspension rates, and in light of a district's financial resources. This year we also report select information from the SALT surveys that students, teachers, parents and administra- tors took for the first time in spring 1998, as well as school targets for improvement. Each graphic summary paints a unique picture of each public school and school district in Rhode Island. We share all of this data as part of a much larger strategy aimed at building an edu- cation system that is focused on and accountable for student learning. Achieving this goal requires that schools and their communities, as well as policy makers at all lev- els, use the information to understand a school, to assess its strengths and challenges, and to guide decisions for improvement. We have broad policy agreement on this agenda; it began as a national call, and has become real in our state through the combined leadership of the General Assembly, the Governor, the Board of Regents, and with the full partnership of the state's education community. I extend gratitude to the many hands that joined to create this tool. This document, both its contents and its actual production, would not be possible were it not for the fortuitous partnership the Rhode Island Department of Education and the University of Rhode Island's National Center on Public Education have forged. Furthermore, every element of data in this book relies on the cooperation, good will and commitment of people in schools throughout the state. Sincerely, Peter McWalters Commissioner Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 4 hogontromiHom Maintze 8 Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 'Tells (mg Contsmi User's Guide L State Reports IL School and District Reports )CEL Arranged Alphabetically 1.00 Barrington District 6.00 Coventry District 10.00 East Providence District Barrington High School 1.01 6.01 Blackrock School Agnes B. Hennessey School 10.01 1.02 Barrington Middle School 6.02 Coventry High School Alice M. Waddington School 10.02 Hampden Meadows School 1.03 6.03 Coventry Middle School East Providence High School 10.03 1.04 Nayatt School 6.04 Hopkins Hill School 10.04 Edward R. Martin Junior High School Primrose Hill School 1.05 Oak Haven School 6.05 10.05 Emma G. Whiteknact School 1.06 Sowams Elementary School 6.06 Tiogue School 10.06 Grove Avenue School 6.07 Washington Oak School Bristol Warren District 2.00 10.07 James R. D. Oldham School Western Coventry School 6.08 2.01 Byfield School 10.08 Kent Heights School 7.00 Cranston District 2.02 Child Street School 10.09 Meadowcrest School 2.03 "Colr-Andrews School Arlington School 7.01 10.10 Myron J. Francis Elementary School 2.04 Guiteras School 7.02 Chester W. Barrows School 10.11 Orlo Avenue School Hugh Cole School 2.05 Cranston High School East 7.03 10.12 Riverside Junior High School 2.06 Kickemuit Middle School 7.04 Cranston High School West 10.13 Silver Spring School 2.07 Main Street School 7.05 Daniel D. Waterman School 10.14 Thompson School Mt. Hope High School 2.08 7.06 Eden Park School 10.15 W. R. Wafters School 2.09 Oliver School 7.07 Edgewood Highland School 11.00 Exeter-West Greenwich 2.10 Reynolds School Edward S. Rhodes School 7.08 District ,2.11 Rockwell School 7.09 Garden City School Exeter-West Greenwich Regional 11.01 2.12 Walley School 7.10 George J. Peters School High School Gladstone Street School 7.11 Burrillville District 3.00 11.02 Exeter-West Greenwich Regional 7.12 Glen Hills School Junior High Austin T. Levy School 3.01 7.13 Hope Highlands Elementary School 11.03 Metcalf School 3.02 Burrillville High School 7.14 Hugh B. Bain Middle School 11.04 Mildred E. Lineham School 3.03 Burrillville Middle School John W. Horton School 7.15 11.05 Wawaloam School 3.04 Steere Farm Elementary School 7.16 Norwood Avenue School William L. Callahan School 3.05 12.00 Foster District 7.17 Oak Lawn School Captain Isaac Paine School 12.01 Central Falls District 4.00 7.18 Park View Middle School Alan Shawn Feinstein School 4.01 Foster-Glocester District 7.19 Stadium School 13.00 4.02 Capt. G. Harold Hunt School 7.20 Stone Hill School Ponaganset High School 13.01 4.03 Central Falls Jr - Sr High School Western Hills Middle School 7.21 13.02 Ponaganset Middle School 4.04 Dr. Earl F. Calcutt Middle School 7.22 William R. Dutemple School Glocester District 14.00 4.05 Ella Risk School 7.23 Woodridge School Fogarty Memorial School 14.01 4.06 Margaret I. Robertson School 8.00 Cumberland District 14.02 West Glocester Elementary 4.07 Veterans Memorial Elementary Ashton School 8.01 Jamestown District 15.00 5.00 Chariho District 8.02 B.F. Norton Elementary School Jamestown School-Lawn 15.01 Ashaway Elementary School 5.01 Community School 8.03 15.02 Jamestown School-Melrose 5.02 Chariho Regional High School Cumberland High School 8.04 16.00 Johnston District Chariho Regional Middle School 5.03 Cumberland Hill School 8.05 5.04 16.01 Brown Avenue School Charlestown Elementary School Cumberland Hill Annex 8.06 5.05 Hope Valley Elementary School 16.02 George C. Calef School Cumberland Middle School 8.07 5.06 Richmond Elementary School 16.03 Graniteville School Garvin Memorial School 8.08 16.04 Johnston Senior High School North Cumberland Middle School 8.09 16.05 Nicholas A. Ferri Middle School 9.00 East Greenwich District 16.06 Sarah Dyer Barnes School Archie R. Cole Junior High School 9.01 16.07 Thornton School 9.02 East Greenwich High School 16.08 Winsor Hill School Frenchtown School 9.03 9.04 George Hanaford School James H. Eldredge Elementary School 9.05 Meadowbrook Farms School 9.06 4 Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 5 DoogovatmeNerra neraus I Providence District Lincoln District North Providence District 28.00 24.00 17.00 28.01 Fairlawn Elementary Alfred Lima, Sr. Elementary School 24.01 17.01 Birchwood School 28.02 Alternate Learning Project 24.02 Lincoln Central Elementary School 17.02 Centredale School 28.03 Asa Messer School 24.03 Lincoln Middle School 17.03 Dr. Edward A. Ricci School 28.04 24.04 Asa Messer Annex Lincoln Senior High School 17.04 Dr. Joseph A. Whelan Elementary School 28.05 Birch Vocational Center Lonsdale Elementary School 17.05 24.05 Greystone School 28.06 17.06 Camden Avenue School Northern Lincoln Elementary School 24.06 James L. McGuire School 28.07 Carl G. Lauro Memorial School 17.07 Saylesville Elementary School 24.07 Marieville Elementary School 28.08 Central High School Little Compton District 18.00 24.08 North Providence High School 28.09 Charles Fortes Elementary School Wilbur & McMahon Schools 18.01 24.09 Stephen Olney School 28.10 Classical High School Middletown District 19.00 28.11 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School North Smithfield District 25.00 19.01 Aquidneck School 28.12 Esek Hopkins Middle School Dr. Harry L. Halliwell Memorial 25.01 19.02 Forest Avenue School 28.13 Edmund W. Flynn School School John F. Kennedy School 19.03 25.02 North Smithfield Elementary School 28.14 Flynn Annex 19.04 Joseph H. Gaudet School 25.03 North Smithfield Jr 28.15 Sr High School Flynn Annex II 19.05 Linden School 28.16 Feinstein High School Pawtucket District 26.00 19.06 Middletown High School 28.17 Feinstein School (formerly Broad 26.01 Agnes E. Little School Street School) Narragansett District 20.00 26.02 Curvin-McCabe School 28.18 George J. West School Narragansett Elementary School 20.01 26.03 Elizabeth Baldwin School 28.19 Gilbert Stuart School 20.02 Narragansett High School 26.04 Fallon Memorial School 28.20 Hope High School 20.03 Narragansett Pier School 26.05 Flora S. Curtis Memorial School 28.21 Laurel Hill Avenue School 26.06 Francis J. Varieur School Newport District 21.00 28.22 Laurel Hill Annex 26.07 Goff Junior High School 21.01 Carey School 28.23 Mary E. Fogarty School 26.08 Henry J. Winters School 21.02 28.24 Mount Pleasant High School Coggeshall School 26.09 Joseph Jenks Junior High School 21.03 Cranston - Calvert School 28.25 Nathan Bishop Middle School 26.10 M. Virginia Cunningham School 21.04 Dr. M. H. Sullivan School 28.26 Nathanael Greene Middle School Nathanael Greene School 26.11 28.27 21.05 Frank E. Thompson Middle School Oliver Hazard Perry Middle School 26.12 Potter-Burns School 21.06 George H. Triplett School 28.28 Pleasant View School 26.13 Samuel Slater Junior High School 21.07 Rogers High School 28.29 Reservoir Avenue School 26.14 Shea Senior High School 21.08 28.30 Sheffield School Robert F. Kennedy School 26.15 William E. Tolman Senior High 21.09 William J. Underwood School 28.31 Robert L. Bailey, IV Elementary School School New Shoreham District 22.00 Portsmouth District 28.32 Roger Williams Middle School 27.00 22.01 Block Island School 28.33 Sackett Street School 27.01 Elmhurst School North Kingstown District 28.34 Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School 23.00 Howard Hathaway School 27.02 28.35 Textron Chamber of Commerce 27.03 23.01 Davisville Elementary School Melville Elementary School Academy 27.04 23.02 Davisville Middle School Portsmouth High School 28.36 Vartan Gregorian Elementary School 23.03 27.05 Fishing Cove School Portsmouth Middle School at Fox Point 23.04 27.06 Forest Park School Prudence Island School 28.37 Veazie Street School 23.05 Hamilton Elementary School Veazie Annex #1 28.38 23.06 North Kingstown Senior High School 28.39 Veazie Annex II 23.07 Quidnessett Elementary School 28.40 Webster Avenue School 23.08 Stony Lane School West Broadway School 28.41 23.09 Wickford Elementary School 28.42 William D'Abate School 23.10 Wickford Middle School 28.43 Windmill Street School Windmill Street School Annex #1 28.44 5 6 1109gen6isalam 'Ow Tzsis I Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 Scituate District Warwick District Woonsocket District 29.00 33.00 36.00 Clayville Elementary School 29.01 Aldrich Junior High School 33.01 36.01 Bernon Heights School Hope Elementary School 29.02 Cedar Hill School 33.02 36.02 Citizens Memorial School North Scituate Elementary School 29.03 33.03 Cottrell F. Hoxsie School 36.03 Fifth Avenue School Scituate High School 29.04 Drum Rock Elementary School 33.04 Globe Park School 36.04 Scituate Middle School 29.05 E. G. Robertson School 33.05 36.05 Grove Street School Francis School 33.06 Harris School 36.06 Smithfield District 30.00 Gorton Junior High School 33.07 36.07 Kendrick Avenue School Anna M. McCabe School 30.01 Greenwood School 33.08 Kevin K. Coleman Elementary School 36.08 Old County Road School 30.02 33.09 Harold F. Scott School Leo A. Savoie School 36.09 Raymond C. LaPerche School 30.03 33.10 Holliman School Pothier School 36.10 Smithfield Senior High School 30.04 John Greene School 33.11 36.11 Second Avenue School Vincent J. Gallagher Middle School 30.05 33.12 John Wickes School 36.12 Social Street School William Winsor School 30.06 Lippitt School 33.13 36.13 Woonsocket High School South Kingstown District 31.00 Norwood School 33.14 36.14 Woonsocket Middle School Hazard School 31.01 33.15 Oakland Beach Elementary School State-Operated Schools 37.00 Matunuck School 31.02 Park School 33.16 Wm. M. Davies Jr. Career-Technical 37.01 31.03 Peace Dale Elementary School Pilgrim High School 33.17 High School 31.04 South Kingstown High School Potowomut School 33.18 Rhode Island School for the Deaf 37.02 South Kingstown Junior High School 31.05 33.19 Randall Holden School Metropolitan Center 37.03 31.06 South Road Elementary Rhodes School 33.20 Area Career & 38.00 31.07 Wakefield Elementary School Sherman School 33.21 Technical Schools 31.08 West Kingston Elementary School Toll Gate High School 33.22 Chariho Area Career & 38.01 33.23 Warwick Neck School Tiverton District 32.00 Technical Center 33.24 Warwick Veterans Memorial High Fort Barton School 32.01 38.02 Cranston Area Career & School Technical Center Nonquit School 32.02 Winman Junior High School 33.25 38.03 E. Providence Area Career & 32.03 Pocasset School Wyman School 33.26 Technical Center 32.04 Tiverton High School James L. Hanley Career & 38.04 Westerly District 34.00 32.05 Tiverton Middle School Technical Center Babcock Middle School 34.01 32.06 Walter E. Ranger School Newport County Career & 38.05 34.02 Bradford School Technical Center , Dunn's Corners School 34.03 Warwick Area Career & 38.06 Technical Center 34.04 Springbrook Elementary School West Bay Area Career & 38.07 34.05 State Street Elementary School Technical Center 34.06 Tower Street School Woonsocket Area Career & 38.08 34.07 Westerly High School Technical Center West Warwick District 35.00 Additional Health Results 39.00 35.01 Greenbush Elementary School Health results for schools with 39.01 35.02 John F. Deering Middle School non-typical grade configurations John E Horgan Elementary School 35.03 35.04 Maisie E. Quinn Elementary School 35.05 Providence Street School 35.06 West Warwick Senior High School 6 hogonmenam Wevite P Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 7 co m culta, Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 Rhode 11811and Lawns Ito EintevEwsq and Use IDErRa Until recently, most of us thought of the Information Age as the advent of e-mail and surfing the Internet. While last year schools and districts learned to collect large amounts of new information principally through the SALT (School Accountability for Learning and Teaching) survey this year RI's school communities have been confronted with learning how to read new charts and reports and to make sense of results from large, unfamiliar databases. Suddenly we are making direct contact with technology's ability to collect and analyze vast quantities of information. The experience has been daunting, exciting, humbling, fascinating, frustrating, enlightening and liberating. IInformation Works! Has Changed since Last Year While districts and schools are still in alphabetical order, a "batch" numbering system has made it possible to have a table of contents and provide easier access to desired charts and information. Career and Technical schools are included in their own section after the state schools. The 1999 school charts have key SALT survey findings. Each school reports its achievement targets. Additional information will be available on the web versions of the reports. (See below) For More IInformation, Questions and Suggestions, See: infoworks.ride.uri.edu The two-page, school-level charts published on the web will include information for which there was not room in the hard cover copy of Information Works! The charts on the web will include: Disaggregations of student achievement by students with certain characteristics that continue below the proficiency line. Non-proficient students will be disaggregated by characteristics into the three non-proficient categories. School goals Teacher grievances by type Student suspensions by type 8 Orragenmaucan route g Measuring Rhode Island Schools for Change 1999 The 1999 Information Works! home page also gives access to a technical paper explaining the statistical modeling which generated the graphs in Field #2, to Commissioner Mc Walters' State of Education speech before the General Assembly, to Information Works for Community Stewardship, a state-level report on education in RI, and to last year's Information Works! data and related materials. Information Works! Draws From a Variety off Resources A number of key accountability measures were first identified by the Governor's Comprehensive Education Strategy and then written into legislation. That legislation, Article 31, charged the Department of Education (RIDE) with measuring certain spe- cific outcomes, scores and indicators and publicly reporting the results. However, test scores and accountability outcomes are limited in their ability to promote school improvement. For schools to become successful in their efforts to make progress, they also need sophisticated, detailed information about their own internal functioning. RIDE strongly emphasizes that no single element of information, not even test scores, has much meaning standing by itself. Only when taken together can a full array of important indicators and details begin to paint a picture comprehensive enough to approximate the complexity and uniqueness of a school. Therefore, the principal sources of the data for Information Works! are: The State Assessments Standardized student achievement tests The SALT Survey School-level data about classroom practice, school climate, expectations, and much more Basic School-level Statistics School enrollment, demographic make up, socio-economic status, absenteeism, suspensions, etc. are collected throughout the year through various data collec- tion efforts by RIDE. Tax and Income Statistics From the State Department of Administration's Division of Taxation Form 31 Financial Information Expenditures and revenue information submitted to RIDE. (More detailed infor- mation from the new statewide fiscal accountability system, In$ite, will be report- ed next year at both the school and district level. This year, data from selected schools and districts will be available under separate cover.) 8