From Superintendent Torlakson S Email to Superintendents on Wednesday August 24, 2016

From Superintendent Torlakson’s email to Superintendents on Wednesday August 24, 2016

Table 1: 2014–15 and 2015–16 Smarter Balanced Number and Percentage Point Change of All California Students Who Exceeded or Met Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics1

Percent Students Percent Students Percentage Point Change of Number of Number of who Met or who Met or Students who Met or Students Tested Students Tested Exceeded Standards Exceeded Standards Exceeded Standards 2015– Content Area with Scores 20152 with Scores 20162 2015 2016 2016 English Language 3,173,079 3,188,014 44 49 +5 Arts/Literacy3 Mathematics 3,179,246 3,196,382 33 37 +4 1 Results for other achievement levels including 2015 are located on the CDE CAASPP Public Reporting Web site at http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov.

2 The number of valid scores includes count of students statewide who were enrolled and responded to enough questions on both the Performance Task and the Computer Adaptive portions of the test to generate a score.

3 Recently arrived English Learners who are in his or her first 12 months of attending a school in the United States are exempted from taking the assessment in English language arts.

Table 2: 2015–16 Number and Percentage of Students Receiving Smarter Balanced Assessment Parental Exemption for English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics

Number of Students Receiving Parental Exemption in Content Area 2016 Percent of Parental Exemptions in 20161 English Language 22,376 0.69 Arts/Literacy Mathematics 22,763 0.70 1 Percent of parental exemptions equals the number of students with exemption divided by the sum of the number of students tested and the number of students with an exemption. Table 3: 2015–16 Smarter Balanced for English Language Arts/Literacy Statewide Numbers, Percentage of Students, and Percentage Point Change from 2015 by Grade and Achievement Level1, 2 Percentage Point Percent of Percent of Percent of Change who Met Students who Percent of Students who Students who Did or Exceeded Number of Students Exceeded Students who Met Nearly Met Not Meet Standards 2015– Grade Tested with Scores3 Standards Standards Standards Standards 2016 Grade 3 455,796 22 21 25 32 +5 Grade 4 470,823 23 21 20 36 +4 Grade 5 462,277 21 28 21 31 +5 Grade 6 458,667 17 31 26 26 +6 Grade 7 456,591 15 33 24 28 +4 Grade 8 449,940 14 34 27 25 +3 Grade 11 433,920 26 33 22 19 +3 All California 3,188,014 20 29 24 28 +5 Students

Table 4: 2015–16 Smarter Balanced for Mathematics Statewide Numbers and Percentage of Students and Percentage Point Change from 2015 by Grade and Achievement Level1, 2 Percentage Point Percent of Percent of Change who Met Students who Students who Percent of Students or Exceeded Number of Students Exceeded Percent of Students Nearly Met who Did Not Meet Standards 2015– Grade Tested with Scores3 Standards who Met Standards Standards Standards 2016 Grade 3 457,540 18 28 26 29 +6 Grade 4 473,184 15 23 33 28 +3 Grade 5 464,150 17 16 28 39 +3 Grade 6 460,064 17 18 30 35 +2 Grade 7 458,138 17 19 30 34 +2 Grade 8 451,198 19 17 25 39 +3 Grade 11 432,108 13 20 25 43 +4 All California 3,196,382 17 20 28 35 +4 Students 1 Additional results including 2015 are located on the CDE CAASPP Public Reporting Web site at http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov. 2 Percent achievement levels by grade may not equal 100 due to rounding. 3 The number of valid scores includes count of students who were enrolled and responded to enough questions on both the Performance Task and the Computer Adaptive portions of the test to generate a score. Table 6: 2015–16 Smarter Balanced for Mathematics Statewide Numbers, Percentage of Students Achievement Level, and Percentage Point Change from 20151

Percentage Point Percent of Percent of Percent of Change who Met Number of Students who Percent of Students who Students who or Exceeded Students Tested Exceeded Students who Nearly Met Did Not Meet Standards 2015– Student Groups2 with Scores3 Standards Met Standards Standards Standards 2016 All Students 3,196,382 17 20 28 35 +4 Gender Male 1,631,107 17 20 27 36 +3 Female 1,565,275 16 21 29 34 +3 Race/Ethnicity Asian 290,692 48 24 17 11 +3 Black or African 178,039 5 13 27 54 +2 American Hispanic or Latino 1,710,844 7 17 31 45 +3 White 761,255 26 27 27 21 +4 Student Subgroups English Learner (EL)4 590,158 3 9 25 63 +1 Economically 1,892,864 7 16 30 46 +2 Disadvantaged Students with 332,076 4 7 16 73 +2 Disabilities 1 Percent achievement levels by student group may not equal 100 due to rounding. 2 Other subgroups including results from 2015 are located on the CAASPP reporting Web site at http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/. 3 The number of valid scores includes count of students who were enrolled and responded to enough questions on both the Performance Task and the Computer Adaptive portions of the test to generate a score. 4 Subgroup of students who were considered English learners at the time of the assessment