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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m too tired to do this now, but I hope someone will explain subgroup size, the subgroup reporting requirements, and how that skews the data in — if I may say so — stupid systems like this.[/quote]

Someone? Anyone?[/quote]

It is based on federal designation. Basically, they look at the scores of the 5th percentile of Title 1 schools in the state, and then look at designated demographic subgroups. If any subgroup has scores that are worse than this 5th percentile threshold across all of math, reading, and science (if applicable, not all groups have science scores), then they get designated as a Targeted Support and Improvement school and they are docked a level on the accountability rating.
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Yes, but there’s a reporting threshold for group size. It used to be 30, which I believe is still in effect. 
So your lower-SES school which exceeds the minimum group size in every category? Every subgroup gets reported. A N.A. school with fewer than 30 kids in, say, the 5th grade low-income science test score group? Not reported, thereby artificially raising the scores.[/quote]

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