Indicators of Academic Achievement
A Return to the School Performance Profile
With the release of 2015-16 academic achievement data, Pennsylvania school districts returned to being measured through the School Performance Profile( SPP).
School districts received a oneyear reprieve from the SPP after the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment( PSSA) was aligned in the 2014-15 school year to the more rigorous PA Core Standards. The SPP is based upon a variety of measures, one of which is the PSSA( see page 5). Forty percent of a school’ s rating is related to the PSSA, 40 percent is related to academic growth( measured by the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System, or PVAAS- see page 9), five percent is related to academic improvement for all students, five percent is related to improvement among historically under-performing groups of students, and 10 percent is related to measures such as graduation rate,
Our Schools’ Building Level SPP Scores
promotion rate and attendance rate. While SPP scores for our buildings decreased since they were last measured in 2014, Perkiomen Valley schools are still among those in the county with the highest SPPs. At the elementary level, Evergreen is 7th in the county, Perkiomen Valley Middle School East is 13th in the county, and Perkiomen Valley High School is 4th of 23 in the county.
Evergreen Elementary School: 87.2 Skippack Elementary School: 68.4 South Elementary School: 82.1 Schwenksville Elementary School: 71.8
Middle School East: 73.7 Middle School West: 67
Perkiomen Valley High School: 93.8
The SPP represents one measure of our schools’ work with children and provides us with feedback about the strengths of our programs, as well as areas of need. In Perkiomen Valley, we recognize that the true measure of a school’ s success is based on many factors beyond the components of the SPP score.
District’ s Scores Compare Favorably to Neighbors
Perkiomen Valley has consistently exceeded the state’ s benchmarks for student performance in math and reading on the PSSA. This year, we also compared our scores to the average PSSA scores from our neighbors( the school districts with which we share borders). As you can see from the charts on the following pages, we compare quite favorably in terms of our students’ achievements in reading, math, and science. Perkiomen Valley School District shares borders with Boyertown, Upper Perkiomen, Souderton, North Penn, Methacton and Spring-Ford Area school districts.
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