Jackson Charter School Summative Designation Update
On October 28th, the official 2023-2024 Summative Designation was released for Jackson Charter School from the 2023-2024 school year. The previous school year (2022-2023) Summative Designation was Targeted.
A school’s annual summative designation describes how well an individual school is meeting the needs of all its students. The designations recognize schools with strong overall performance across a range of academic and student success indicators. Schools with greatest need receive the most support. Illinois has five summative designations within the statewide school accountability system: Exemplary, Commendable, Targeted, Comprehensive, and Intensive.
Below is an overview of the Comprehensive Summative Designation summary:
Comprehensive Designation Summary
- Overall performance in the bottom 5 percent of Title I-eligible schools statewide
- All high schools with a graduation rate of 67 percent or below
- Schools that have completed a full Targeted Support school improvement cycle, where the performance of one or more of the originally Targeted student groups remains at or below the level of the “all students” group in the lowest-performing 5 percent of Title I-eligible schools at the end of the four-year improvement cycle.
A Comprehensive Support designation initiates comprehensive school improvement status and the school begins a four-year cycle of school improvement. There are multiple indicators included in the overall School Report Card Status. These indicators include:
Academic Indicators (75%)
- EnglishLanguageArtsGrowth:25%
2. Math Growth: 25%
3. English Language Arts Proficiency: 7.5%
4. Math Proficiency: 7.5%
5. Science Proficiency: 5%
6. English Learner Progress to Proficiency: 5%
School Quality & Student Success Indicators (25%)
- Chronic Absenteeism: 20% 8. Climate Survey: 5%
Key Information for Next Steps
- $55,000 will be allocated for school improvement funding
- AIR needs analysis costs– $40,090
- Completion of the Illinois Quality Framework Supporting Rubric (IQFSR) is a planning year program requirement for all schools newly designated as Intensive, Comprehensive, and Targeted on the 2024 Illinois Report Card. Schools must enter the results of the IQFSR into the School Improvement Reporting System in IWAS by January 31, 2025. The following documents are available to assist school leaders in meeting the program requirements.
Key Action Steps as of 1/5/24
- 12/6/24 Dr. Wrenn met with the ISBE School Improvement Coordinator and RPS to begin school improvement planning partnership (next meeting in January)
- $55,000 will be allocated for school improvement funding
- AIR needs analysis costs– $40,090
- Integrated Science into every classroom teachers daily schedule
- Began micro-culture/climate survey aligned to Climate Survey
- Shared IAR Readiness resources/live webinars/resources on 12/4
- IAR Readiness Scope and Sequence Collaborative Learning
- P50 rollout (50 minutes of differentiated small group instruction for 3rd- 5th grade)
- Attendance initiative/close review of attendance data
- RPS Data and Accountability Team Meeting 12/18
- Leadership Team worked on Root Cause Analysis to inform SIP Plan for 2024-2025 school year
- Bi-weekly professional development
- Awards Assembly to celebrate (academic growth and attendance)
- Monthly attendance “GLOW Celebration”
- Attendance Initiative
- Weekly PLC’s (Professional Learning Communities)
- Properly identified students needing intervention support
- Purchased evidence based intervention curriculum
- Evidence based literacy environments in place (leveled libraries, word walls, etc).
- IAR Readiness professional development for staff
Next Steps/Immediate Action Items
- Continued monthly meetings with ISBE related to school improvement planning
- AIR Needs Analysis
- Allocate remaining funding towards SIP Cycle
- Complete and Submit IQSFR
- Consistently review key data metrics
Please don’t hesitate to contact Dr. Wrenn at ewrenn@jacksoncharterschool.org.