This report card contains test results as well as other information relevant to schools and their performance toward the goals of student achievement and school completion and is compliant with both state and federal (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) laws with respect to report card reporting requirements. GOSA has worked as a partner with the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) to produce the 2005-06 AYP Reports since much of the data comes from GaDOE. Other portions were collected by GOSA from other entities in order to provide a comprehensive view of the schools, systems, and the state.  GOSA, along with a large committee of stakeholders in the education communities from around the state, continues to forge ahead with establishing Georgia's Single Statewide Accountability System (SSAS) for K-12 public schools that merges federal law with state law. For more information on this process, visit the OSA website: www.gaosa.org.

The 2005-2006 Report Card includes school, system, and state level reports organized into seven major sections. The following provides an overview of the content within each section.

1.      Accountability - includes Georgia's new Single Statewide Accountability System Profile that incorporates: 1) an Adequate Yearly Progress Summary, 2) a Performance Index for Greatest Gain in Percentage of Students Meeting and Exceeding Standards or Highest Percentage of Students Meeting and Exceeding Standards and 3) School Performance Highlights.  In addition this section contains school accreditation data from The Southern Accreditation of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC) and Highly Qualified Teacher information.

2.     Georgia Tests - includes student performance results on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, Georgia High School Graduation Tests, Georgia High School Writing Tests, End-of-Course Tests, Middle Grades Writing Assessment and the Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA).  The user can view multi-year comparisons at the school, system, and state levels. In addition, while viewing a school the user can opt to compare the school data to system and state data.

3.     National Tests - includes student performance results for SAT, ACT, AP Exams and NAEP (state-level only).

4.     School Performance Indicators - includes HOPE Eligibility, Post-Secondary Data, Retained Students, Graduation Rate, 7-12 Dropouts, 9-12 Dropouts, Attendance data and High School Completer Credentials.

5.     Student & School Demographics- includes: 1) County/Community Information, 2) Compensatory Programs (Special Education, English to Speakers of Other Languages, Early Intervention, and Remedial Education), 3) Selected Programs (Gifted, Vocational Labs, and Alternative Programs), and 4) Enrollment by Demographics (fall and spring enrollments; enrollments by race/ethnicity, disability, English proficiency, migrant, and free/reduced meal status.

6.     Personnel & Fiscal - includes such data as K-12 revenues and expenditures, millage rates, salaries and benefits for school personnel, and staff certification data.

7.     Comparisons Section - provides users a means to find similar schools and compare schools on the basis of certain data.  Links to other sites that provide information on Georgia schools will also be included. 

Assessment results and other data are summarized at the school, school system, and state level and in most instances are disaggregated (when available) by different student groupings. These groupings are based on race/ethnicity, gender, disability, and English proficiency, economic, and migrant status as required by the A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000 (state law) and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001  (federal law). For more information on how GOSA disaggregates Georgia Test results, click here.   For a detailed description of all the contents for each of these sections and rules of reporting, please see About the Report Card.