Sterling Public Schools

NeSA Scores

NePAS Scores. The Nebraska Department of Education is in its third year of including NePAS (Nebraska Performance Accountability System) data in the State of the Schools Report. In simplest terms, NePAS is a way to rank schools across the state using NeSA scores and graduation rates. The graduation rates will not be released until early November. Below is a chart that shows how we rank compared to the other districts in the state, for both this year and last year. I have also included our ranking change over the past two years. Please keep in mind that this is a comparison of all public schools across the state, regardless of size. You may also go to the NDE website, http://www.education.ne.gov/, and access the State of the Schools report for Sterling, which provides a more detailed breakdown. In that report, you will also see two other rankings, one for improvement and one for growth. Improvement is comparing different students in the same grade for back to back years. Growth is comparing the same students in back to back years. As a district we view this data as important, but also realize that it is a one-shot picture of our achievement.

As you look at our results, you can see that we have made vast improvements in our scores. In fact, we are STATE CHAMPIONS in grades 3-5 Math. We also did very well across the board in all other areas. When you have success, one of things we do is look at what we have done differently to get the result that we have achieved. It is tough to pin down exactly what caused the change, but I would suggest a few items that we have done and will continue to work on, to be successful. Those factors include: (1) we are now in year three of our new elementary math series, (2) we are also in year three of our RtI (response to intervention) process for reading in the elementary and (3) throughout the building, we made a concerted effort to challenge our students to be competitive with these assessments.

Elementary (Grades 3-5)

	Reading	Math	Science (grade 5)	Writing (grade 4)
2012-13	130 out of 249	72 out of 249	90 out of 225	9 out of 223
2013-14	38 out of 248	1 out of 248	56 out of 225	83 out of 223
Ranking Change	+ 92	+ 71	+ 34	- 74

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

	Reading	Math	Science (grade 8)	Writing (Grade 8)
2012-13	179 out of 249	76 out of 249	33 out of 228	NA
2013-14	53 out of 249	31 out of 249	82 out of 224	NA
Ranking Change	+ 126	+ 45	- 49	NA

High School (Grades 9-12)

	Reading	Math	Science (Grade 11)	Writing (Grade 11)
2012-13	170 out of 229	150 out of 228	133 out of 228	NA
2013-14	85 out of 230	50 out of 230	9 out of 230	NA
Ranking Change	+ 85	+ 100	+ 124	NA

Overall (Grades 3-12)

	Reading	Math	Science	Writing
2012-13	166 out of 249	95 out of 249	71 out of 249	NA
2013-14	39 out of 249	4 out of 249	26 out of 249	NA
Ranking Change	+ 127	+ 91	+ 45	NA

Click on the link below to view the slideshow from the recogniton assembly.

NeSA Assembly

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