A-F Accountability

Posted: Tue, 11/22/2011 - 4:27pm Updated: Mon, 05/07/2012 - 3:09pm

Beginning with the 2010-11 academic year, the State Board of Education changed the labels for school categories based on student performance from the terms Exemplary, Commendable, Academic Progress, Academic Watch and Academic Probabtion to easy-to-understand letter grades (A, B, C, D and F).

The new A-F labels improve transparency by allowing parents and community members to better recognize how well Indiana schools are performing and leading students to achieve positive academic outcomes.

Starting with the 2011-12 academic year, the State Board of Education adopted the use of a new methodology for determining a school or corporation's grade, A-F.

Indiana's new A-F model holds schools and corporations to higher standards and provides a more accurate picture of their performance by incorporating student academic growth and graduation rates, as well as college and career readiness, as measures of success.

The following documents help explain the new A- F model.

 

Public Law 221

Public Law 221 (P.L. 221) is the state law by which Indiana's accountablility model is authorized. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, Indiana replaced the existing P.L. 221 metrics with the new A-F accountability model in order to determine a school or school corporation's P.L. 221 status. Please click HERE for past P.L. 221 results or more information on P.L. 221.

Adequate Yearly Progress

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is the mechanism by which each school and school corporation's progress towards satisfying the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is tracked. AYP is a federal accountability system that is designed to ensure that 100% of all students and all student subgroups are proficient in both English and Math by 2014. Please click HERE for more information on AYP or to view previous AYP results.

Contact Us

For additional information, please contact schoolaccountability@doe.in.gov.