ARISE High School - Granicus

85% of our students and families will express satisfaction with their experience
at ARISE High School, as measured by survey data.
• It is our goal to have 90% of graduates matriculate to a four-year college.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INDEX
As part of the annual cycles of inquiry and regularly looking at school and student data
to inform school improvement plans, ARISE High School staff and key stakeholders
will analyze the school's Academic Performance Index, once it is given, and Adequate
Yearly Progress targets to create plans for meeting the goals and raising the API
score. ARISE High School will meet its Adequate Yearly Progress targets annually
and will exceed the API scores of Oakland Unified School District high schools with
similar populations
METHOD(S) OF ASSESSMENT
ARISE High School believes that through Expeditionary Learning, project and
community-based learning, differentiated, highly personalized instruction, and
heterogeneous groupings of students, the needs of a diverse array of learners will be
successfully met. ARISE High School will have a system of both individualized goalsetting
and standardized school-wide expectations and requirements, as well as
school-wide and individual assessment processes. Multiple measures will be used to
assess individual students as well as the school's overall progress.
ARISE High School will administer the following state-wide assessment tests annually:
the California High School Exit Examination, the California English Language
Development Test, the physical performance test, and the STAR tests. In addition, all
of our students will be required to take either the SAT or the ACT.
The school will also administer local assessments in various content areas, teachers
will write progress reports each semester, at the end of the summer session and
intersession, and students will be asked to demonstrate and present their learning
regularly at student-led parent conferences, exhibitions, and in their portfolio defense
presentations. Attendance, enrollment, graduation, and college matriculation data will
be collected by the school. Our partners at the Coalition of Essential Schools will
provide additional external data collection and evaluation for the school, including
gathering teacher and student work; providing parent, teacher and student surveys;
and analyzing the test score and other data that the school itself will be collecting. We
are hopeful that faculty and students at the Mills College School of Education will also
conduct research on the progress of the school and help us with our data collection
and analysis.
In addition to conducting and reviewing students' scores on state assessment tests
such as the California Standards tests and the California English Language
Development Test, incoming ARISE High School students will be assessed in
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ARISE High School
Charter Petition Submitted to the Oakland Unified School District
July 18, 2006