District Achievement Overview Board Report September 19,2017 Naomi Calvo, Director of Research, Evaluation & Assessment 1 The Bellevue School District Mission: To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life.
Agenda 1. Highlights 2. Additional Information & Data 3. Next Steps 4. Q & A 2
Highlights (1/3) Are we making progress on our ‘Academic Success’ Instructional Initiative key indicators? Slide 6 BSD student performance on our key indicators continues to be strong but static, for a fifth consecutive year. A high percentage of students are meeting standards -- around 75-90% depending on the indicator – but we have seen slight if any gains over time. Slide 7 For comparison purposes, statewide progress has been similarly flat over the last three years, with the exception of gains in science. Science is a bright spot : science scores have gradually been increasing over the last decade (despite the fact that the state tests are no longer aligned to current science Slide 8 standards) Three-year progress by cohort is mostly either flat or erratic , with several exceptions. Current 6 th graders have made steady progress in ELA over the last three Slide 9 years (74 to 82%), but have decreased proficiency in math over the same time period (80 to 72%). Current 7 th graders have similarly declining scores in math (down six points), while current 8 th graders have made progress in ELA (up four points). Are students making adequate progress over the course of the year? Slide 11 We have substantially more ‘high growth’ students than the national average, and 3 fewer ‘low growth’ students as well. However, an alarming number of our low- performing students are also ‘low growth’, which means they are not on track to catch up.
Highlights (2/3) How do BSD scores compare to the state average on reading, math and Slides science state tests? 12-13 BSD pass rates are well above the state average in all subjects and grade levels (generally around 20 percentage points above average in grades 3-8, and around 12 points above average in high school) Slide BSD has an exceptionally high rate of students exceeding standards, which reflects 14 our teaching quality, robust curriculum, and student body Are we closing our race achievement gaps? Slides 15-18 No; for the most part our race gaps have not diminished over time and in some cases appear to be increasing (Black and Hispanic student scores are declining in elementary school, widening the gap). Our racial equity work is ongoing. What about other achievement gaps? Slides 19-21 Large gaps persist by income, ELL and special education status. The pass rate for students from higher-income families (~80%) is almost twice that of students from low-income families (~40%). The exact numbers vary by grade level and subject, but generally special education and ELL students have pass rates of 25-45% compared to 4 over 80% among students not receiving these services. Girls are also out-performing boys in ELA by around 10 percentage points in elementary school, and 6 points in middle school.
Highlights (3/3) What is the timeline for progress on our ‘Academic Success’ Instructional Initiative? We have three overarching strategies for achieving our Academic Success goals: MTSS (including both academic and behavioral aspects) Racial equity focus (including culturally responsive teaching & learning) Inclusion focus (for special education and ELL services) Implementing these strategies requires re-thinking district systems and shifting classroom pedagogy. This is a long-term endeavor. We are in the process of identifying milestones for implementation and impact for all three strategies, based on the SWIFT framework and other tools. One of the primary barriers we are working to address is how to provide sufficient professional development time for staff, in order to deepen classroom practices around MTSS, culturally responsive teaching & learning, and inclusion. 5
Progress over time on key Academic Success indicators has been fairly flat Selected Indicators for the Academic Success Instructional Initiative Literacy Indicator Goal: 100% reading at grade level by end of third grade. Math Indicator Goal: 100% proficient in math by end of fifth grade. Writing Indicator Goal: 100% of seventh graders proficient in writing. Science Indicator Goal: 100% of eighth graders proficient in science. Indicator 2015 2016 2017 3 rd Grade ELA SBA 73% 76% 74% 5 th Grade Math SBA 74% 77% 73% 7 th Grade Writing SBA* 91% 91% 92% 8 th Grade Science MSP 81% 88% 84% 6 *SBA scores here are for the Writing strand, a section of the English Language Arts test, and show the percent at/near or above standard. (SBA subtests are scored as below standard, at/near standard, or above standard.)
Statewide progress has been similarly fairly flat in ELA and math, with some progress in science Proficiency Rates Change Over Time 2015 to 2016 to Net 2015 Indicator 2015 2016 2017 2016 2017 to 2017 3 -2 1 BSD Grade 3 ELA 73% 76% 74% 52% 54% 53% 2 -1 1 State Grade 3 ELA 3 -4 -1 BSD Grade 5 Math 74% 77% 73% 48% 49% 49% 1 0 1 State Grade 5 Math 7 -4 3 BSD Grade 8 Science 81% 88% 84% 61% 68% 66% 7 -2 5 State Grade 8 Science 7
Science scores have generallybeen increasing over time Note: BSD has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, but the state science test measures old state standards. Thus the state test is not aligned to what students are learning in science , and won’t be until the new science test begins in the spring of 2018. 8
Progress differs somewhat by cohort* 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 2015 2016 2017 ELA 74% 79% 82% Math 80% 77% 72% LEGEND Upward trend Flat or erratic Downward trend 2015 2016 2017 ELA 79% 83% 79% Math 82% 81% 76% 2015 2016 2017 ELA 81% 81% 85% Math 76% 76% 77% 2015 2016 2017 ELA 78% 82% 81% 9 Math 71% 78% 72% *Note: Students must have test scores for all three consecutive years in order to be included in the cohort results shown here. 9
While we don’t have state test scores for primary students (grades K-2), we do have standards-based progress reports Percent of K-2 Students Meeting Standards on Progress Reports, Spring 2017 Grade Level Reading Math Science Total # Kindergarten 82% 88% 98% 1359 Progress report Grade 1 83% 89% 95% 1480 grades Grade 2 87% 85% 96% 1573 83% SBA pass rates Grade 3 74% 80% 1465 (grade 5) 10 10
In addition to performance (the percent of students meeting state standards), it is helpful to look at growth (how much progress students make over the course of the year). Percent of students making low, typical and high growth BSD continues to have in reading and math (STAR grades 3-8) slightly fewer “low growth” Growth BSD BSD students and more “high Category Reading Math growth” students than the 2016 2017 2016 2017 national average, in both Low 26% 28% 28% 31% reading & math. Typical 34% 31% 32% 30% High 41% 41% 40% 38% Note: For comparison purposes, the national average is 33% in each category. What is STAR’s student growth measure? STAR growth scores reflect the amount of progress that a student made over the course of the year relative to his/her academic peers nationally (“academic peers” are same -grade students who started the year with similar achievement levels). By convention, “low growth” is the bottom third of the distribution, “typical growth” is the middle third, and “high growth” is the top third. Generally students need to be at least at the 40 th growth percentile to stay on track, so when we don’t need to look at a more nuanced distribution we often use just two categories, with “low growth” being below the 40 th growth percentile and “solid growth” being above. 11
BSD students score well above the state average on SBA, in all grade levels and subjects SBA English Language Arts Pass Rates by Grade: English BSD compared to WA Average - 2017 100% Language 80% 60% Arts 40% 20% 0% 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 11th BSD 74% 75% 80% 76% 83% 78% 87% State 53% 55% 59% 56% 60% 59% 74% BSD State SBA Math Pass Rates by Grade: BSD compared to WA average - 2017 100% 80% Math 60% 40% 12 20% 0% 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th BSD 80% 74% 73% 74% 77% 70% State 58% 54% 49% 48% 50% 48% 12 BSD State
SBA comparisons, continued Science Pass Rates by Grade: Science BSD compared to WA Average - 2017 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 5th 8th 10th* BSD 83% 84% 90% State 63% 66% 72% BSD State 13 *Note: 5 th and 8 th scores are for the science MSP test, which is only given in those two grade levels. The 10 th grade scores are for the Biology End- of-Course test (EOC), which students take when they finish Biology (generally in 9 th grade but sometimes 8 th or 10 th ). The 10 th grade scores 13 shown here reflect the percent of students who have passed the Biology EOC by the end of 10 th grade.
BSD has a particularly high proportion of students who exceed standards, compared to the state average Some examples (Spring 2017): Well Below Below Meets Exceeds Standard Standard Standard Standard 3 rd Grade ELA Statewide, about 50% of third graders met standards on ELA. In BSD, about 50% of third graders exceeded standards on ELA. 5 th Grade Math 14 14
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