SDP’s annual School Progress Report (SPR) provides information about how District and Charter schools are doing in the areas that matter the most for student success: Academic Achievement and Progress, School Climate, and College and Career Readiness. Schools earn scores for each domain, which are them combined to create an overall score of 0-100%. All scores fall into one of four tiers: Intervene (0-24% of possible points), Watch (25-49% of possible points), Reinforce (50-74% of possible points), or Model (75-100% of possible points). This brief summarizes trends in school performance overall, by report type (as determined by grade levels served), and for each domain from 2014-15 to 2018-19.

Important findings include:

• In the District sector, the percentage of schools in the Intervene and Watch categories has decreased, while the percentage of schools in the Reinforce and Model categories has increased. This trend is also reflected in the number of students attending schools in each tier: more students attended schools in higher tiers in 2018-19 than in 2014-15.
• In the Charter sector, the percentage of schools in the Intervene category has decreased, the percentage of schools in the Watch category has remained steady, and the percentage of schools in the Reinforce and Model categories has increased. Similar to the District trend, more students attended schools in higher tiers in 2018-19 than in 2014-15.

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