PA School Performance Profile
North Penn School District
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What is the School Performance Profile?
• Developed by the Pennsylvania
Department of Education, the PA School
Performance Profile is an online
resource designed to provide
information and resources on school
quality for public schools across the
Commonwealth.
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Academic Performance Score
• School-Level Reporting
• Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Charter Schools
• Cyber Charter Schools
• Comprehensive Career and
Technology Centers
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Indicators of Academic Achievement – 40%
• Percent Proficient or Advanced on
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
(PSSA)/Keystone Exams
• Percent Competent or Advanced on Industry
Standards-Based Competency Assessments
• Percent Proficient or Advanced on PSSA grade
3 reading
• SAT/ACT college ready benchmark
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Indicators of Academic Growth – 40%
• Meeting or Exceeding Annual
Academic Growth Expectations
• Mathematics/Algebra I
• Reading/Literature
• Science/Biology
• Writing
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Other Academic Indicators – 10%
• Cohort Graduation Rate
• Attendance Rate
• Advanced Placement, International
Baccalaureate, or College Credit
• PSAT/Plan Participation
• Promotion Rate – (next year)
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Closing the Achievement Gap – Historically
Underperforming Students (5%) – next year
• Percent of Gap Closure Met
• Mathematics/Algebra I
• Reading/Literature
• Science/Biology
• Writing
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Closing the Achievement Gap – All Students
(5%) – next year
• Percent of Gap Closure Met
• Mathematics/Algebra I
• Reading/Literature
• Science/Biology
• Writing
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Extra Credit for Advanced Achievement
• Percent Advanced on PSSA/Keystone Exams
• Mathematics/Algebra I
• Reading/Literature
• Science/Biology
• Writing
• Percent Advanced on Industry StandardsBased Competency Assessments
• Percent Scoring 3 or Higher on Advanced
Placement Exams
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What is a good SPP?
To help clarify the meaning of the SPP and to provide for
point of comparison, a school that had a 90 percent
proficiency rate, every student made one year of academic
growth (no more and no less,) and attained a 95 %
attendance rate and a 100 % promotion rate would have an
SPP rating of 84.
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How does the State define success?
Acting Education
Secretary Carolyn
Dumaresq defined a
score of 70 as the
benchmark necessary
to be "moving toward
success."
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NPSD’s SPPs
School
Bridle Path
Gwynedd Square
Gwyn-Nor
Hatfield
Inglewood
Knapp
Kulp
Montgomery
Nash
North Wales
Oak Park
Walton Farm
York Avenue
% Prof
% Prof
% Prof
% Prof
SPP
PSSA
PSSA
PSSA
PSSA
% Prof Gr PVAAS
PVAAS
PVAAS
PVAAS
Grad
Score
Math
Reading Science Writing 3 PSSA R Math
Reading Science Writing
Rate
91.1
90.0%
84.8%
94.8%
88.8%
86.0%
74
83
100
100
85.6
89.9%
85.0%
95.0%
85.1%
88.3%
75
71
100
63
92.8
87.1%
82.7%
93.7%
85.3%
87.5%
95
91
92
100
90.1
83.0%
74.2%
91.3%
81.7%
86.4%
90
90
92
100
89.0
86.2%
78.2%
98.0%
77.1%
81.8%
91
93
100
74
81.1
84.5%
76.7%
86.8%
78.7%
82.4%
74
75
68
85
80.0
81.2%
79.0%
86.7%
69.8%
85.1%
73
79
74
72
95.4
93.8%
88.6%
96.4%
95.5%
92.9%
77
96
100
100
96.7
91.0%
86.8%
88.7%
91.2%
87.5%
100
100
100
100
92.2
85.7%
84.8%
94.4%
80.9%
88.1%
100
84
100
89
88.7
86.9%
78.4%
95.8%
58.3%
80.3%
100
100
100
75
87.4
88.1%
87.0%
93.0%
87.3%
88.6%
66
97
79
84
89.8
88.2%
82.0%
97.3%
82.6%
76.7%
100
78
100
83
Pennbrook
Penndale
Pennfield
97.1
86.1
92.2
90.1%
87.0%
93.4%
90.3%
84.8%
87.9%
87.0%
77.7%
80.3%
NPHS
94.3
84.9%
87.6%
75.4%
92.6%
81.1%
88.7%
100
100
100
100
87
74
100
100
97
87
100
100
100
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100
AP, IB, or PSAT
SAT/ACT
Attenda College Participat College
nce Rate Credit
ion
Ready
97.4%
97.0%
97.4%
96.6%
97.4%
97.2%
97.0%
97.4%
97.5%
97.0%
97.1%
96.9%
97.2%
96.1%
95.4%
95.7%
94.9%
94.4%
100
100
100
% Adv
% Adv
PSSA
PSSA
Math
Reading
58.4%
39.9%
66.7%
51.5%
56.6%
44.6%
52.4%
38.0%
50.6%
37.2%
53.0%
37.2%
51.1%
38.8%
73.4%
50.8%
76.1%
56.8%
59.0%
46.7%
53.4%
32.1%
63.6%
47.8%
63.5%
33.2%
70.2%
66.2%
73.4%
70.2%
60.9%
64.3%
52.0%
20.7%
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NPSD’s Elementary SPPs
School
SPP Score
91.1
Bridle Path
85.6
Gwynedd Square
92.8
Gwyn-Nor
90.1
Hatfield
89.0
Inglewood
81.1
Knapp
80.0
Kulp
95.4
Montgomery
96.7
Nash
92.2
North Wales
88.7
Oak Park
87.4
Walton Farm
89.8
York Avenue
Click here for full Spreadsheet
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NPSD’s Secondary SPPs
Pennbrook
97.1
Penndale
86.1
Pennfield
92.2
NPHS
94.3
Click here for full Spreadsheet
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SPP Examples
Sample
Elementary/Middle
Schools
%
%
% %
%
%
%
%
Prof Prof Prof Prof % R Grow Grow Grow Grow Att Adv Adv Adv Adv SPP
M R
S
W Gr 3 M
R
S
W
Rate M
R
S
W
Score
School 1 - High Growth,
High Proficiency
90
90
90
90
90
100
100
100
100
95
50
50
50
50 95.50
School 2 - Moderate
Growth, High Proficiency
90
90
90
90
90
75
75
75
75
95
50
50
50
50 83.74
School 3 - Moderate
Proficiency, High Growth
80
80
80
80
80
100
100
100
100
95
50
50
50
50 90.79
School 4 - Moderate
Proficiency, Moderate
Growth
80
80
80
80
80
75
75
75
75
95
50
50
50
50 79.03
School 5 - Low Proficiency,
High Growth
43
43
43
43
43
100
100
100
100
95
10
10
10
10 72.98
School 6 - Low Proficiency,
Moderate Growth
43
43
43
43
43
75
75
75
75
95
50
50
50
50 61.62
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In Summary
• It is difficult to determine an SPP score for which all NPSD
should strive, except of course 100. North Penn schools are
tremendous, offer excellent opportunities, and are made up
of high performing students and teachers.
• Our schools’ scores range from 80 to 97.
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In Summary
• The truth is, though, that a school’s score is the big picture.
The little picture, where we need to focus, is the individual
achievement of every single student. As we focus on each
student and providing them the interventions or challenges
to improve their achievement each year, so too will each
school’s SPP score increase.
• The SPP score is secondary to the each individual child’s
score.
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SPP: One Piece of the Puzzle
• Our success include:
• All NPSD schools met or exceeded a score of 80, and 9 schools
exceeded 90
• Oak Park was named a Reward – High Progress school for
demonstrating student growth in achievement that was among
the top 5% of Title I schools in Pennsylvania
• All 16 elementary and middle schools met or exceeded 95%
attendance rate
• NPHS continues to excel with a 94.9% four-year cohort
graduation rate
• 9 NPHS students named semifinalists in the 2013-2014
National Merit Scholarship Competition and 21 students
named as commended scholars.
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SPP: One Piece of the Puzzle
• SPP is just one indicator of a school’s success. Other
measures include:
safe schools,
award-winning music and arts programs,
courses that go well beyond the core curriculum
outstanding co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
whether students get into the college of their choice
whether school personnel communicate effectively with
parents so they are a partner in education
• whether schools provide learning opportunities for children to
promote social responsibility.
• Whether all students are academically challenged to reach new
heights
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SPP: One Piece of the Puzzle
• Our schools are committed to the concept of continuous
improvement as outlined in our district’s strategic plan
• All schools have goals and action plans in place for 20132014 school year
• Information from the SPP corroborates our need to
continuously improve in areas previously identified by
school district administrators, teachers, and support
personnel
• Thank you to our community for its support of our
outstanding schools. We have much to celebrate!!
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