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From The Tuscaloosa News, August 14, 2003:

How to interpret Academic Status

Clear
Stanford Acheivement Test — average percentile of 40 or above
Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade 5 — at least 20.11 percent of students meeting aca-demic content standards
Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade 7 — at least 24.77 percent of students meeting aca-demic content standards
Alabama High School Graduation Exam — at least 90 percent of grade 12 students passing all required subject-area tests (reading, language, mathematics and science)

Watch
Stanford Achievement Test — average percentile between 30-39

Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade 5 — less than 20.11 percent of students meeting aca-demic content standards

Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade 7 — Less than 24.77 percent of students meeting academic content standards

Alabama High School Graduation Exam — Less than 90 percent but more than or equal to 80 per-cent of grade 12 students passing all required subject-area tests and drop-out rate greater than 15.59 percent (state average)

Priority
Stanford Achievement Test — average percentile less than 30

Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade 5 and 7 — no students meeting academic content standards

Alabama High School Graduation Exam — less than 80 percent of grade 12 students passing all required subject-area tests

Last year, schools were assigned an academic status of clear, watch or priority only. Beginning this year, the same criteria also are applied to subgroups of students to give schools one of seven classifications. Subgroups include students with disabilities, students with limited English proficiency, students eligible for free or reduced lunches and major racial/ethnic groups.

Clear — the average score of all students met the standards for clear status, and all applicable sub-groups have an academic clear status
Clear with Watch — the average score of all students met the standards for clear status, but one or more subgroups have an academic watch status
Clear with Priority — the average score of all students met the standards for clear status, but one or more subgroups have an academic status of watch of priority
Clear with Watch and Priority — the average score of all students met the standards for clear status, but two or more subgroups have an academic status of watch and priority
Watch — the average score of all students placed them in the watch category
Watch with Priority — the average score of all students placed them in the watch category, and one or more subgroups has an academic status of priority
Priority — the average score for all students placed them in the priority category, regardless of the status of the subgroups

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