Sources/Update
There were two data sources for the school report cards – (1) the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) Missouri’s Comprehensive Data System (MCDS), and (2) the Common Core of Data collected by the US Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
Data were obtained through the MCDS Portal.
The finance data are from each district’s Annual Secretary to the Board Report (ASBR). These reports are required to be submitted to DESE by August 1 of each year. More information can be found here Annual Secretary of the Board Report.
US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22.
Downloaded from the Elementary/Secondary Information System (ELSi), various dates.
The CCD is an annual, universal data collection of all public schools and districts (LEAs) in the US. Data for every school and LEA are collected by the state education agency (SEA) and then forwarded to NCES. For more information, see About CCD.
The following files were used:
School Designations
Demographic Data
District Faculty Information
Building Faculty Information (2012-2020)
Finance Data and Summary for All Districts (Data as of 11-17-2020)
Building Level Per Pupil Expenditures 2020 (Data as of 12/9/2019)
School & District-Content Area All and Disag 2019
Missouri 2019 APR Supporting
Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate
US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education 2018-19
Downloaded from the Elementary/Secondary Information System (ELSi), various dates.
The CCD is an annual, universal data collection of all public schools and districts (LEAs) in the US. Data for every school and LEA are collected by the state education agency (SEA) and then forwarded to NCES. For more information, see https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/aboutccd.asp
CCD Education Statistics
Updates
Growth scores
Missouri’s school accountability system, the Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP) – is now in its 6th iteration. MSIP 6 measures student growth slightly differently than MSIP 5 (prior to 2021-22). In MSIP 5, a school or district’s average student growth was converted to National Curve Equivalents (NCEs) and were centered on 50. Above average student growth was represented by scores above 50 and below average student growth was represented by scores below 50. In MSIP 6, a school or district’s growth is represented by assessment scores converted to standard deviations around the average growth, centered on 0. For example, a district with an ELA growth score of .26, had student growth that was .26 standard deviations above the statewide average growth. Like MSIP 5, each district or school’s ELA and math growth scores include a measure of whether or not the score is statistically different from 0, with a “0” indicating not statistically different and a “1” indicating statistically above or below the statewide average of 0, depending on whether the growth score is positive or negative.