T he department shall base the student achievement school performance index (SPI) key indicator score for all public presecondary and secondary schools on the percentage of students at each of the four levels on the state academic assessment for the three most recent school years. The department shall calculate this score separately for the presecondary school level and the secondary school level.

To calculate the student achievement SPI key indicator score for a public school, the department shall first divide the maximum points for this indicator in half, in order to count English language arts and mathematics scores equally.

The department shall then calculate the percentage of students scoring at each performance level. If a school did not assess at least ninety-five percent of the tested population, the number of students needed to reach a ninety-five percent participation rate is added to this calculation. Students not testing shall be assigned a value of zero percent. Full academic year students scoring at level 1 shall be assigned a value of .25 percent, full academic year students scoring at level 2 a value of .50 percent, full academic year students scoring at level 3 a value of one percent, and full academic year students scoring at level 4 a value of 1.25 percent. The department shall complete this process separately for math and English language arts.

The department then shall multiply these weighted points by the maximum points for this indicator to calculate separate scores for English language arts and math. The sum of these two scores is the final score for the student achievement SPI key indicator for that school.

This calculation is illustrated in Appendix C at the end of this chapter.

Source: 39 SDR 51, effective October 3, 2012; 41 SDR 218, effective July 1, 2015; 42 SDR 98, effective January 7, 2016; 43 SDR 176, effective July 3, 2017; 44 SDR 95, effective December 6, 2017; 44 SDR 192, effective July 2, 2018 ; 49 SDR 35, effective October 10, 2022 .

General Authority: SDCL 13-3-69 (2)(5).

Law Implemented: SDCL 13-3-62 , 13-3-63 , 13-3-64 , 13-3-69 .

Prior versions effective: 2018-07-02, 2017-12-06, 2017-07-03, 2016-01-07, 2015-07-01, 2012-10-03.