Each year the Division of Exceptional Children Services (DECS) is required to publicly report how local school districts performed with respect to meeting certain indicators of the State Performance Plan (SPP).
Though there are twenty (20) indicators in the SPP, not all address district or student performance and therefore are not included in the Public Report of District Performance. The fourteen (14) SPP indicators that do measure the performance of Districts and students with disabilities within the District are:
Indicator 1 – Graduation rate
Indicator 2 – Drop-out rate
Indicator 3 – Performance on state-wide assessments
Performance on Kentucky's Alternate Assessment Program
Indicator 4 – Suspension rate
Indicator 5 – Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment(LRE) for elementary through secondary
Indicator 6* – Placement in the LRE for preschool
Indicator 7* – Preschool Outcomes
Indicator 8 – Parent Involvement
Indicator 9 – Disproportionate representation of racial/ethnic groups in special Education
Indicator 10 – Disproportionate representation of racial/ethnic groups in particular disability categories
Indicator 11 – Timely initial evaluation of students for special education services
Indicator 12 – Timely placement of students from First Steps into preschool programs
Indicator 13 – Compliance with secondary transition requirements
Indicator 14* – Post-school Outcomes
Note: An asterisk* beside the indicator means that for this reporting period, there is no public report for the indicator.
As indicated above, the Public Report that follows sets forth the performance of Kentucky School Districts on KDE’s SPP targets for Indicators one through fourteen. In the Report, KDE has compared its targets for the fourteen SPP indicators with data from each Kentucky school district.
Description of the Public Report of District Information
The Public Report of District Performance has fourteen sections representing each of the SPP indicators that address district and or student performance. The Public Report is a separate file for each of the indicators for which data is reported during the identified school year.
Some districts will not have district level data reported. Privacy laws prohibit the disclosure of certain district data when a district has small groups of students whose performance is being measured. An example of omitted district level data could be a small district’s graduation rate, since small districts will often have low numbers of students with disabilities graduating from high school. This is intended to maintain privacy and confidentiality of the students in the district whose identity and status as a special education student could be determined from the reporting of these data.
Below are the Public Reports of District Information by SPP Indicator.