Note that the achievement and growth indicators must be based on statewide assessments only.
All indicators can be computed for school year 2024-2025, with a modification to how the growth indicator is calculated. Currently, growth is measured as the change in performance from one year to the next. However, since only approximately half of the schools will have test scores in 2023-2024, the current growth model indicator, based on consecutive years, will not work for all schools.
Therefore, OPI proposes a “skip-year” growth model for evaluating growth for 2024-2025, where growth will be evaluated between 2022-2023 and 2024-2025. This approach has been used successfully throughout the country when evaluating learning challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic when students were not tested in 2020.