Page 9 - Annual Report of Achievement & Growth

Extra credit for Advanced Achievement (up to 7 points)

 Percent of students scoring Advanced on PSSA tests and Keystone Exams in Mathematics/Algebra 1,
Reading/Literature, Science/Biology, and Writing

 Percent of students scoring 3 or higher on Advanced Placement tests

For schools with grades 3-8, most of the data involved in calculating the School Performance Profile score
comes from PSSA scores. PDE administered two new PSSA assessments in the spring of 2015, Math and
English Language Arts. Because the assessments were aligned to a different set of standards, PA Core, PDE set
new cut scores for each performance level category. The tests are more rigorous and student performance levels
throughout the state have decreased. To give school districts more time to revise curriculum to align with the
PA Core Standards, PDE issued School Performance Profile scores only for schools with grade 11 students in
2015. This year, 2016, PDE has resumed calculating School Performance Profile scores for schools with
students in grades 3-11.

Once SPP scores have been calculated, they are then placed within the following scale:

For Pine-Richland School District, the most recent building level scores were:

PRHS 93.0
PRMS 84.3
EHUE 83.2
Hance 94.4
Richland 88.2
Wexford 91.9

Trend data is not available for most schools given the change in the structure and content of the PSSA tests.
When completing a comparison of PRSD School Performance Profile scores against the top achieving school
districts in Pennsylvania, the results indicate that the six schools in PRSD are very high performing and
clustered tightly within the top levels of this measure (see presentation).

Pine-Richland School District Page 5 School Performance Profile