Dear Parent/Guardian,
North Dakota has launched a dashboard called “Insights,” designed to help communities across the state access important information about K-12 districts and schools. Insights features easy-to-read reports on multiple measures of school success, including:
Student Achievement
Choice Ready Results
Performance Comparisons
English Learner Progress
Graduation Rates
School and State Accountability Results
School Improvement Information
Post-Secondary Education
School Environment
Transparency to the Public
North Dakota is committed to informing communities about how well our schools are doing. North Dakota’s future success depends on tapping into the potential of all students, so they graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to be successful.
State education departments are required to annually create an accountability report for every public school in the state per Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The school accountability reports outline how schools perform on the accountability elements North Dakota selected within its ESSA plan.
How is our School Doing?
To find more information about our School Accountability Report, visit the dashboard at Insights.nd.gov, select “Find My School,” and search alphabetically. The school accountability report is posted under the Dashboard heading.
Please note that the data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with ten or fewer students to protect confidential information about individual students. Therefore, if data is unavailable to less than ten students, it will say “no data available.”
Family Engagement
We have strong plans for working to improve the educational programs at our schools. We want you and your child(ren) to continue actively participating in our educational system. Please help support our high expectations for student achievement by participating in the school educational initiatives, offering input and support in our endeavors to raise student achievement, or volunteering at the school. Meeting our schools’ goals will take a united effort, and we look forward to working with our families to ensure success for each student.
Continuous Improvement
All schools engage in continuous improvement for general support; therefore, our schools have completed a continuous improvement plan through Cognia.
As part of the overall school’s improvement plan, a strategy map is generated for each school. Our strategy maps, outlining our key school’s improvement initiatives, is also available on Insights.
School Support
In addition, the following schools were selected for Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) due to a high proportion of struggling student groups. McVay Elementary, Missouri Ridge School, and Williston Middle School have all been identified for the 2022-2023 school year.
North Dakota selects schools for Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) from a pool of consistently underperforming schools. The state ESSA plan defines "consistently underperforming schools" based on all indicators within the state’s accountability system performing in the bottom 10% for three consecutive years.
Identified schools also may have a high proportion of struggling student groups and/or significant performance gaps between student groups. The key measures for identification are comprised of student engagement, academic achievement and growth, and EL learner growth.
More information on TSI can be found here: https://www.nd.gov/dpi/districtsschools/essa/accountability/targeted-support-and-improvement
Sincerely,
Dr. Richard H. Faidley
