District Summary Reports are part of the final reports package that is ordered when the testing window is closed for a season. When ordering reports, be cognizant of what it is you will want to know when looking at the reports. If you will want to analyze differences between males and females, special education and non-special education, free/reduced lunch and non-free/reduced lunch and so on, you will need to order multiple sets of reports. This will require going through the report ordering process multiple times, but it is worth it to be able to dig more deeply into the information.

Once you have the District Summary Reports there are many ways to look at the information. This report is especially good at identifying strengths and weaknesses over time. Scores within the goal areas are bold faced and underlined if they are greater than three RIT points higher than the overall RIT score for that group of students. Scores within the goal areas are bold faced and italicized if they are three RIT points or more below the overall RIT score for that group of students. (The strengths and weaknesses are relative to that group of students only and not as compared to the group of students within the norm group.)

If you want to know if there are strengths or weaknesses in a specific goal area over time, look vertically down the report one goal area column at a time. You want to identify repeated strengths or weaknesses. If you want to know if there are strengths or weaknesses in a specific grade over time, you will look horizontally across the pages. You can also follow cohorts to identify strengths and weaknesses, although this is more difficult. You will need to take a diagonal look at the report to follow back on grade and one year from now and so on up and over on the report.