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Abbreviations
PPS: Pittsburgh Public Schools
PDE: Pennsylvania Department of Education
All information is from the 2004-05 school year unless noted.
Student mobility rate
Definition: A measure of student movement in and out of a school during one academic year. The student mobility rate represents the total number of student withdrawals and re-entries divided by the total enrollment for the year.
Source: PPS.
Student stability rate
Definition: A measure of student stability during one academic year. The student stability rate represents the total number of students enrolled for the entire year divided by the total enrollment for the year.
Source: PPS.
Interpreting mobility and stability percentages: A low number for the "mobility" percentage and a high number for the "stability" percentage indicates a stable student population.
Students receiving special education services (excluding “gifted”)
Definition: The percentage includes all full-time, part-time, resource, or itinerant students receiving one or more special education services, excluding only the “gifted” classification.
Source: PPS.
Students identified as “gifted”
Definition: Students identified by PPS as “gifted” based on multiple criteria, according to state law. Criteria may include IQ greater than or equal to 130; achievement test results; and/or evaluations of higher-level thinking skills, academic creativity, leadership skills, and communication skills.
Source: PPS.
Teacher attendance
Definition: Teachers’ average daily attendance. Non-attendance includes sick days, personal days, funeral leave, military leave, jury duty, and professional leave due to seminars, conferences, etc.
Source: PPS.
Teachers with advanced degrees
Definition: Percentage of teachers who have an advanced degree beyond a bachelor’s degree plus teaching certification, including master’s degrees, master’s degrees plus additional credits, and doctoral degrees.
Source: PPS.
Principal stability
Definition: Number of different named or acting principals (excluding assistant principals) in a school within a four-year period from 2002 to 2005.
Sources: PPS’ “Public School Choices” and PPS staff lists, 2001-2004.
Reportable student disciplinary actions
Definition: This indicator includes: a) number of reported incidents involving acts of violence and cases involving possession of a weapon on school property (one incident may involve one or more offenders), b) number of reported offenders who committed the incidents (offenders who committed multiple offenses during the school year are counted only once), c) number of total reported in-school and out-of-school suspensions resulting from the incidents, d) number of total reported expulsions resulting from the incidents, and e) percentage of enrollment (number of unique violent offenders divided by the total school enrollment). Information is from 2003-04.
Source: PDE.
Note about test scores and other information reported as “n/a” or “--”
PPS Reading scores (“Tests given by the district: Percentage of students at Proficient/Advanced levels by race and family income”) were not available by subgroups for first grade. In other cases, subgroup scores are reported as “n/a” when that subgroup had 0-9 students (test scores of fewer than 10 students are not reported by PPS or PDE). Scores are reported as “--” when no one at that grade level was tested in that school.
Note about District Tests:
"Percent tested" was not available for PPS Reading.
Note about PSSA Test Scores:
Third grade PSSA score ranges ("Advanced," "Proficient," and so on) were rounded to zero decimal places.
Note about subgroup information
The state of PA did not report PSSA scores by subgroup for students who are not low-income.
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