Explanation of 2021-2022 Academic Scores

2021-22 School Year	Academic Accountability Report, 2021-22	State Charter School Performance Report (Value-Added Impact & Student Growth Model) 2021-22	Academic Data Summaries 2021-22

The U.S. Department of Education (USEd) provided State Education Agencies (SEAs) the opportunity to amend their consolidated State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) for the 2021-2022 school year. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) submitted a request to amend the State’s consolidated plan on March 3, 2022, and a revised request on April 26, 2022. USEd approved GaDOE’s COVID-19 State Plan Addendum for the 2021-2022 school year on May 26, 2022.

The request included the suspension of certain academic indicators utilized within the statewide academic accountability system to account for pandemic-related data disruptions. Those indicators include those used to calculate the Progress, Closing the Gaps and Readiness components of CCRPI. As such, those component scores as well as overall summative ratings, Beating the Odds designations, and letter grades for the state, districts, and schools were not reported. To account for the absence, the SCSC contracted with a researcher at Georgia Southern University to calculate Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) and value-added measures (VAM) and used these measures to assess state charter schools' growth for the 2021-2022 school year. The academic section of the CPF has been modified to account for the changes. The academic briefing reports scores related to the updated, alternative measures. Please refer to either of those documents for more details.