GPRA 1.1: Kindergarten Readiness

The number and percentage of BUP-PN target school students who demonstrate at the beginning of the school year age-appropriate functioning across early childhood literacy and mathematics as determined using the statewide, standardized kindergarten readiness assessment.

GPRA 1.2: Kindergarten Readiness

Number and percent of children in kindergarten who demonstrate at the beginning of the program or school year age-appropriate functioning across multiple domains of early learning as determined using developmentally-appropriate early learning measures.

Definition. Early childhood providers may use a wide variety of valid assessment tools to assess the five dimensions of early learning development and skills identified by the National Education Goals Panel (i.e., language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches toward learning, physical well-being and motor development including adaptive skills, and social and emotional development). Promise Neighborhoods should work with their early childhood partners to ensure they are using either the school readiness assessment recognized by their state or local school district, or they are using a nationally recognized assessment tool or set of tools for their program that measures age appropriate functioning across the multiple domains. Partners should implement those assessments at the beginning of the programmatic or school year.

GPRA 2.1: Grade-level Mathematics

The number and percentage of BUP-PN target school students scoring at or above grade level according to State mathematics assessments in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school.  The Algebra 1 end-of-course exam will serve as the State mathematics assessment for high school students taken in Grades 9 or 10.

GPRA 2.2: English Language Arts Proficiency

The number and percentage of BUP-PN target school students scoring at or above grade level according to State English language arts assessments in Grades 3 – 8 and 10.

GPRA 3.1: Students successfully transition from middle school grades to high school

Definition. The average daily attendance (ADA) rate (%) for BUP-PN target school students
in Grades 6 – 9.



GPRA 3.2: Chronic absenteeism rate of BUP-PN target school students in Grades 6 – 9.

Definition. The number and percentage of BUP-PN target school students in Grades 6 – 9 who are absent for 10% or more of the days enrolled at the school.

GPRA 4: Youth graduate from high school (Four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate)

Graduation rate (four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate ). As of 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (24 CFR 200.19(b)(1)) requires all states to calculate a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate for all public high schools in the State. The adjusted cohort graduation rate is recognized as an accurate and uniform way to compare graduation rates across all states.

Definition. Each State must calculate a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate for all public high schools in the State. The four-year adjusted cohort rate is defined in 34 CFR 200.19 (b)(1) as:

“The number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for that graduating class. For those high schools that start after grade 9, the cohort must be calculated based on the earliest high school grade. The term ‘‘adjusted cohort’’ means the students who enter grade 9 (or the earliest high school grade) and any students who transfer into the cohort in grades 9 through 12 minus any students removed from the cohort. The term ‘‘students who transfer into the cohort’’ means the students who enroll after the beginning of the entering cohort’s first year in high school, up to and including in grade 12. To remove a student from the cohort, a school or LEA must confirm in writing that the student transferred out, emigrated to another country, or is deceased."

“To confirm that a student transferred out, the school or LEA must have official written documentation that the student enrolled in another school or in an educational program that culminates in the award of a regular high school diploma. A student who is retained in-grade, enrolls in a General Educational Development (GED) program, or leaves school for any other reason may not be counted as having transferred out for the purpose of calculating graduation rate and must remain in the adjusted cohort. The term ‘‘students who graduate in four years’’ means students who earn a regular high school diploma at the conclusion of their fourth year, before the conclusion of their fourth year, or during a summer session immediately following their fourth year. The term ‘‘regular high school diploma’’ means the standard high school diploma that is awarded to students in the State and that is fully aligned with the State’s academic content standards or a higher diploma and does not include a GED credential, certificate of attendance, or any alternative award."

“In addition to calculating a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, a State may propose to the Secretary for approval an ‘‘extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate.’’ An extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is defined as the number of students who graduate in four years or more with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, provided that the adjustments account for any students who transfer into the cohort by the end of the year of graduation being considered minus the number of students who transfer out, emigrate to another country, or are deceased by the end of that year.”

GPRA 5.1: Postsecondary Enrollment

Definition. The number and percentage of BUP-PN target high school graduates who enroll in a two-year or four-year college or university within 16 months after high school graduation.

GPRA 5.2: Number and percent of Promise Neighborhood students who graduate from a
two-year or four-year college or university or vocational certification completion.

Definition. College, university, and vocational certification completion. This includes the number and percentage of former high school graduates from the target high schools who graduated from their post-secondary institutions (i.e., community college or associate’s programs, four-year college and universities, and technical or vocational programs held separate from colleges or universities) within 100 and 150 percent of traditional completion time. The traditional length of time for associate’s degrees is two years after first enrolling (or 100 percent time). Students who complete in 150 percent of time will take three years. For four-year colleges and universities, 100 percent traditional completion time is within four years and completing with 150 percent translates into graduating six years after entering. For vocational and technical programs and certificates, the traditional length of time
depends on the particular program.

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GPRA 7: Student perceptions of safety at school and traveling to/from school

Definition. The number and percentage of BUP-PN target school students in Grades 6 – 12 who feel safe at school and traveling to and from school, as measured by a school climate survey.

GPRA 8: Student mobility rate

Definition. The total number and percentage of BUP-PN target school student entries and withdrawals from the first day of official enrollment until the end of the academic year, divided by the total number of days students were in membership at the school.

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GPRA 10: Access to broadband internet and connected computing devices at school and home

Definition. The number and percentage of target BUP-PN middle and high school students who have school and home access to broadband internet and a connected computing device. Computing device can include tablets (e.g., iPads), cell phones or smart phones (i.e., Wi-Fi or 3G/4G mobile device), and video game systems like the Wii, TV/cable packages, e-readers, and MP3 players.

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GPRA 12: Unemployment Rate

Definition. The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed people in the Broward UP Promise Neighborhood as a percentage of the civilian labor force.