Why do some school report cards not have information on Performance Gains, Subgroups within Goal Range, and Gaps between Subgroups?
The Performance Gains section can be calculated for 96 percent of elementary and middle schools in the School Report Cards database that have publicly available CMT data. It was not possible to calculate a similar measure for Connecticuts high schools because only one grade is tested in high school (grade 10). In addition, since CMT and CAPT data are not made public for schools with less than 20 students per subgroup, low-income scores can only be calculated for 47 percent of Connecticuts public schools, African American scores can only be calculated for 23 percent of schools, and Hispanic scores can only be calculated for 25 percent of schools. In addition, only 30 percent of schools have enough students in these subgroups to calculate at least one Gap between Subgroups score. Finally, to shed light on the relative effectiveness of schools in increasing the percentage of students within goal range during their time in the school, the change in the average percentage of a student cohor
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