“No Child Left Behind” Federal legislation and Colorado State legislation require that all school districts report various types of information to the Colorado Department of Education and make the information available to the public annually. The purpose of the annual report is to allow parents and other stakeholders involved with a school district, the opportunity to review data that various sources have collected for that school district during the previous school year.

Both the information required by federal law and district accreditation information is now available on the Colorado Department of Education Web site. There, the district profile for Branson School District RE-82 includes the information below.

1. Colorado Growth Model. The Colorado Growth Model provides a common understanding of how individual students and groups of students progress from year to year on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) toward state standards based on where each individual student begins. Results are disaggregated by race/ethnicity, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.
2. CSAP results by grade level for each school and for the district. Results are disaggregated by race/ethnicity, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.
3. School and district CSAP performance for the last two years, compared with the state of Colorado as a whole.
4. CSAPA results (for students given the alternate assessment), if applicable.
5. National Assessment of Educational Progress results for Colorado students as a whole and disaggregated by race/ethnicity, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.

1. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results. Adequate Yearly Progress is the federal accountability measure for schools and districts under the No Child Left Behind legislation. The report includes the overall AYP determination for schools and districts as well as their specific AYP results.
2. The names and number of schools in your district that are identified as Schools on Improvement under No Child Left Behind.

1. The percent of classes not taught by Highly Qualified Teachers, and disaggregated by high and low poverty schools.
2. Information about teachers including the professional qualifications of teachers, and the percent of teachers with emergency licenses.

1. Post-secondary readiness indicators including (as applicable): the number and percent of students taking advanced placement courses, students enrolled in institutions under the Post Secondary Enrollment Options Act.
2. Graduation rates and drop out rates.
3. Results of the college entrance exam (ACT) for the district as a whole, and compared to the state average.