The Student Growth Summary Report is part of the final report package that is ordered when the testing window is closed for a season. It can be ordered multiple times to reflect multiple groupings of students as the District Summary Report can, for example, males and females, special education and non-special education.

This report contains information that not contained on other reports and that is what we will focus on here. The bottom of the report is a chart that has both bars and a line. The line represents the  growth that is typical, from the norm study, for a given grade and subject. The bars represent the actual growth at a given grade and subject in your district or school. Comparing this report over time could be valuable as you track the kind of growth students are seeing in a subject or at a given grade.

At the top of the report, there is a column headed " Percent of Target." This column compares the sum of the typical growths for the students in the group to the sum of their actual growths. The goal is to have 100% in this column or more. Having 100% in this column does not necessarily mean that each student met their target growth, it is much more likely that there were students who exceeded their target and students who did not reach theirs. Having greater than 100% in this column is possible when students are exceeding their growth targets.

The Achievement Status and Growth Report will give you similar information about individual students. This report contains information about what individual student's growth target was, what their actual growth was, and what the difference between those two numbers was.

Another column to take a look at is headed "Percent Meeting Growth Target." This column tells you how many of the students met or exceeded their typical growth. The goal is for this column to be at 50% or more. Because this information is based on the norm group, it is typical for 50% of students to meet or exceed their target and for 50% to not meet their target. It is desirable for more than 50% to meet or exceed their targets, however, so 50% should not be considered success.