The Maryland State Department of Education is required to report "accountability data" under the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Maryland's plan for an accountability system that complies with the ESSA was approved by the U.S. Department of Education in early 2018. Overall, The accountability system has two parts: academic indicators, which make up 65 possible points in the system, and measures of school quality and student success, which are 35 possible points. The star rating and total points are summary measures based on a broad selection of performance indicators to measure how schools are doing.
Detailed data is available for download through the MSDE website. Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) provides an accessible explanation of the accountability data on their website: https://www.hcpss.org/about-us/essa/
Format
A data frame with 160 rows and 8 variables:
school_yearSchool year
school_numberSchool number
school_nameSchool name
star_ratingStar rating
total_points_earned_percentageTotal points earned (as a percentage)
percentile_rank_elementaryStatewide percentile rank for elementary school grade band
percentile_rank_middleStatewide percentile rank for middle school grade band
percentile_rank_highStatewide percentile rank for high school grade band