Fact sheets providing detailed descriptions of performance metrics for elementary and high schools

EPAS Gains

• EPAS Gains Fact Sheet
• Describes the metric developed to measure whether High School students are making academic progress from the Explore to the Plan and from the Plan to the ACT tests.

Graduation and Dropout Rates

• Five-Year Cohort Graduation Rate Fact Sheet
  This outlines the method for calculating the graduation rate over a cohort of students followed through five years of CPS education.

• Five-Year Cohort Dropout Rate Fact Sheet
  This outlines the method for calculating the dropout rate over a cohort of students followed through five years of CPS education.

• One-Year Dropout Rate Fact Sheet
  This describes the method for calculating the dropout rate over one school year.

ISAT 

• ISAT Gains Fact Sheet
• Describes the metric developed to measure whether elementary students are making academic progress from 2006 to 2007.
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• ISAT Stanine Conversion Table 
• Contains the Percentile to Stanine conversion table.
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• ISAT Composite Calculation 
• Describes the CPS ISAT Composite calculation.
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On Track Rate

• On Track Rate Fact Sheet
• Describes the metric developed to measure whether high school freshmen are on track to graduate. Freshmen who are designated as on track are three and a half times more likely to graduate from high school in four years than students who are off track.

Value-Added Metric

• Click here for more information on the value-added metric.

For more information on any of the topics above, please contact us at: research@cps.k12.il.us or 773-553-2422.