School Analysis

 You are an expert analyst for a local school system in the state of West Virginia. List 100 measures of school performance, student academic achievement, physical and fiscal factors impacting the quality of education in a typical school system. Include the demographic factors, the social factors, and other pedagogical factors affecting school, teacher, student, and  teaching techniques.

 

Here is a brief explanation of each of the 100 measures used to evaluate West Virginia public school systems, organized by their respective categories.

**Section 1: Student Academic Achievement Factors**

1. **WVGSA Mathematics Proficiency:** The percentage of students in grades 3-8 and 11 meeting state math standards, recently at 39%.


2. **WVGSA ELA Proficiency:** The percentage of students meeting English Language Arts standards, recently stabilizing at 48%.


3. **WVGSA Science Proficiency:** Evaluates science knowledge in grades 5, 8, and 11, which recently dropped to 29%.


4. **NAEP 4th Grade Mathematics:** A national benchmark score used to compare West Virginia 4th graders (average score of 232) to the rest of the country.


5. **NAEP 8th Grade Mathematics:** The national comparative score for 8th-grade numeracy.
6. **Early Literacy Screener Cut Scores:** Diagnostic reading tests given in the first 30 days of school, mid-year, and end-of-year to identify students needing intervention.


7. **Early Numeracy Screener Cut Scores:** Diagnostic math tests mirroring the literacy screeners to catch early math deficiencies.


8. **Dyslexia Benchmark Deficiencies:** Tracking students whose screener scores indicate potential reading learning disabilities, triggering customized improvement plans.


9. **Dyscalculia Benchmark Deficiencies:** Tracking students whose screener scores indicate math-specific learning disabilities.


10. **Third Grade Retention Rate:** The percentage of 3rd graders held back for failing to meet ELA or math standards under the Third Grade Success Act.


11. **AAAS Progress:** Measures the academic progress of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities using alternative standards.


12. **English Learner Progress:** Tracks if English Learners are meeting annual targets in listening, reading, speaking, and writing on the ELPA21 assessment.


13. **High School AP/Dual Credit Pass Rates:** The percentage of high schoolers successfully earning college credit before graduation.

14. **CTE NOCTI Passage Rates:** Evaluates workplace readiness for vocational students; recently, WV students achieved a 68% pass rate.


15. **Career Cluster Completion:** The percentage of students who finish a sequence of specialized career technical education (CTE) courses.

**Section 2: School Performance and System Accountability**

16. **Balanced Scorecard Color Designation:** The state's accountability rating system that labels schools as Green, Blue, Yellow, or Red based on overall performance.

17. **4-Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate:** The percentage of students graduating high school in standard time, recently 92.6% statewide.

18. **5-Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate:** Tracks students who need an extra year to graduate, recently at 93.4%.

19. **On-Track to Graduation:** The percentage of 10th graders who have earned at least 12 core credits.

20. **Post-Secondary Outcomes:** Tracks 12th graders meeting college or career readiness benchmarks post-graduation.

21. **Chronic Absenteeism Rate:** The percentage of students missing more than 10% of their enrolled school days.

22. **90% Attendance Threshold:** The raw percentage of the student body attending at least 90% of instructional days.

23. **Zero Out-of-School Suspensions:** A behavioral metric tracking the percentage of students who receive no exclusionary discipline, reflecting a positive school climate.

24. **Academic Progress (Growth):** Measures the percentage of students improving by one or more proficiency levels on statewide tests year-over-year.

25. **Dropout Rate:** Tracks students who abandon their education entirely, correlating with negative long-term economic outcomes.

26. **ZoomWV Data Dashboard Utilization:** Evaluates how frequently districts use state data tools to make administrative decisions.

27. **CSI Status:** Identifies the lowest-performing 5% of Title I schools or those with graduation rates below 67% requiring comprehensive state support.

28. **ATS Status:** Identifies schools where specific demographic subgroups perform as poorly as the lowest 5% of schools.

29. **LEA Support and Accountability Phase:** Dictates the severity of state intervention in a county board of education, ranging from monitoring to a full state takeover.

30. **Homeschool Assessment Submission Rate:** Measures whether non-public students are submitting required academic portfolios by the June 30th deadline.

**Section 3: Fiscal Factors and Funding Mechanisms**

31. **Total Basic Foundation Allowance:** The aggregate state funding a district receives based on the Public School Support Program (PSSP).

32. **Educator Density Funding Ratio:** An inflation of staff funding provided to rural counties so they can operate despite low student headcounts.

33. **Service Personnel Ratio Phase-In:** Increased state funding to hire mandated early childhood aides for grades 1-3.

34. **Fixed Charges Allowance:** State funding covering the employer's share of Social Security, unemployment, and workers' comp.

35. **PEIA Employer Premium Contributions:** The cost of public employee health insurance, which heavily impacts teacher take-home pay and retention.

36. **Teacher Salary Compression:** The gap between the state's minimum pay scale and what border states offer, dictating a county's ability to hire.

37. **Transportation Allowance Expenditure Rate:** The percentage of actual busing costs reimbursed by the state based on county density.

38. **Alternative Fuel/Fleet Allowances:** Bonus funding (5-10%) for using propane/electric buses or buses manufactured in WV.

39. **Expected Local Share:** A mandatory deduction from state aid representing what a county is expected to raise via regular property taxes.

40. **Excess Levy Revenues:** Voter-approved local property taxes required to supplement state funding deficits.

41. **Special Education High Cost-High Acuity Fund:** Supplementary state reimbursements for students whose IEP costs exceed three times the average per-pupil cost.

42. **Alternative Education Program Allowance:** A statutory $18 per-student allowance to fund safe schools for behavioral cases.

43. **ESL State Allocation:** A finite state appropriation for English Language Learners that results in highly diluted per-pupil funding.

44. **Federal ESSA Title Funds:** Federal supplements (Title I, II, IV) critical for operations in high-poverty districts.

45. **Hope Scholarship Outflow:** The multi-million dollar reduction in public school funding caused by students taking their state aid to private or homeschools.

**Section 4: Physical Factors and Infrastructure**

46. **Facility Condition Index (FCI):** A percentage calculated by dividing a building's maintenance backlog by its replacement value.

47. **Current Replacement Value (CRV):** The total financial cost to entirely rebuild a specific school facility.

48. **Energy Usage Index (EUI):** A measure of how much energy a school consumes per square foot, impacting utility budgets.

49. **Program Capacity Utilization:** Assesses if a building is over-enrolled (needs portables) or under-enrolled (inefficient to heat/staff).

50. **Recommended Acreage Compliance:** Evaluates if a school has enough usable land for expansion, bus loops, and playfields.

51. **Maintenance Backlog:** An inventory of deferred facility repairs required for 10-year capital planning.

52. **CPTED Compliance:** Ensures school architecture utilizes Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for safety.

53. **Safe School Bus Stop Supervision:** Compliance with Policy 4336 requiring adults to be present for K-3 bus drop-offs.

54. **Multi-county Vocational Transit Times:** Measures the instructional time lost by busing high schoolers to centralized CTE facilities.

55. **Broadband/Digital Infrastructure:** Tracks the physical bandwidth available to support digital learning and state testing.

56. **ADA Accessibility Compliance:** Ensures legacy school buildings accommodate students with mobility impairments.

57. **Major Improvement Plan (MIP) Adherence:** Tracks a district's execution of local 10-year facility upgrades.

58. **Consolidation/Closure Savings:** The financial and personnel savings projected when merging under-enrolled rural schools.

59. **10-Year Demographic Projections:** Population forecasts used to justify retaining or closing a school building.

60. **Outdoor Activity Condition:** Evaluates the safety of playfields required for mandated daily physical activity.

**Section 5: Demographic and Social Factors**

61. **County Poverty/Median Income Indices:** Baseline economic indicators predicting the outside resources available to students.

62. **CIS Case Management Rate:** The percentage of at-risk students receiving individualized support from Communities In Schools coordinators.

63. **CIS Academic Goal Progress:** Tracks whether case-managed students are meeting academic improvement targets.

64. **CIS Behavior Goal Progress:** Tracks whether case-managed students are meeting behavioral and attendance targets.

65. **Foster Care Student Ratio:** Quantifies the high volume of state-ward students in the local system.

66. **Kinship Care (Grandfamilies) Ratio:** Tracks the 58% of out-of-home placements where students are raised by relatives like grandparents.

67. **Student Mobility Rate:** The percentage of students changing schools mid-year, severely disrupting learning.

68. **Homelessness (McKinney-Vento) Rate:** Identifies students lacking fixed housing who require immediate wraparound services.

69. **Geographic Sparsity/Density Index:** Measures rural isolation, correlating with lack of access to medical and social resources.

70. **Broadband Access at Home:** Assesses the "homework gap" for rural students without internet access.

71. **Mental Health / ACEs Indicators:** Tracks childhood trauma affecting a student's ability to learn.

72. **Juvenile Justice Involvement Rates:** Tracks students removed from traditional schools due to legal system interactions.

73. **Homeschool and Private Transfer Rate:** The volume of students exiting the public system.

74. **Substance Abuse Impact:** Measures the community ripple effects of the opioid epidemic on student trauma and absenteeism.

75. **Medical Care Access:** Tracks a student's access to basic healthcare, a barrier frequently addressed by school nurses.

76. **Out-of-School Learning Opportunities:** Measures community access to tutoring, camps, and arts enrichment.

77. **Parental Notification/Involvement Rates:** Compliance with strict 15-day communication mandates regarding early learning deficiencies.

78. **Student Employment Participation:** The rate of older students working jobs to support households, which can lower graduation rates.

79. **Hope Scholarship Demographic Disparities:** Evaluates if voucher usage is equitable across race and income lines (currently heavily skewed White).

80. **Title I Eligibility Rate:** The percentage of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, unlocking federal funds.

**Section 6: Pedagogical Factors, Teacher Efficacy, and Teaching Techniques**

81. **Certified Teacher Vacancy Rate:** Tracks the massive statewide shortage of fully credentialed educators (roughly 1,200 vacancies).
82. **Out-of-Field Teaching Rate:** The percentage of teachers instructing subjects they are not formally credentialed to teach.

83. **Emergency Certification Usage:** The reliance on untrained adults holding emergency permits to keep classrooms open.

84. **New Teacher Retention Rate:** Tracks the 20% of beginning WV teachers who leave the profession after their first year.

85. **Policy 2510 Credit Accumulation:** Tracking adherence to graduation requirements, such as the new 23-credit mandate.

86. **Embedded Credit Coding:** A technique allowing students to earn core math or ELA credits through applied CTE coursework.

87. **Science of Reading Integration:** Measures fidelity to the legally mandated shift toward explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction.

88. **MTSS Utilization:** The execution of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports to provide targeted small-group or individual interventions.

89. **IEP Compliance:** Ensures legally binding special education instruction is delivered accurately across 14 categories of exceptionality.

90. **Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Ratios:** Measures whether special education students are included in general classrooms rather than separated.

91. **Level 4 Safe Schools Infractions:** Tracks severe offenses like battery, felonies, and weapons that require mandatory suspensions or expulsions.

92. **Expulsion/Suspension Disproportionality:** Ensures minority or special needs students aren't disciplined at unfair rates compared to peers.

93. **Personalized Education Plan (PEP) Completion:** A mandated advisory system mapping a secondary student's trajectory for college or career.

94. **WVS.326 Accommodations Provision:** Tracks whether required testing accommodations (like extended time) are accurately provided to students with IEPs.

95. **Educator Professional Development Hours:** Tracks required teacher upskilling, currently focused heavily on LETRS reading training.

96. **Educator Preparation Program Completion:** The rate of new college graduates entering the teaching pipeline, which recently declined by 27%.

97. **Student-to-Teacher Ratios:** Measures class sizes, which are heavily constrained by the state funding formula.

98. **MVPA Time:** Compliance with the rule that 50% of physical education time must involve moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.

99. **Co-Teaching Efficacy:** The use of two collaborating teachers in a single classroom to support diverse learning needs.

100. **Universal Pre-K Enrollment:** The percentage of early learners attending state Pre-K to build baseline cognitive and social skills.

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