Alaska Administrative Code
Title 4 - Education and Early Development
Chapter 06 - Government of Schools
Article 7 - School and District Accountability
4 AAC 06.840 - Designations of schools

(a) The department will annually designate schools for comprehensive support and improvement if:

(b) In identifying schools for comprehensive support and improvement, the department will ensure that the number of designated schools that are receiving funding under 20 U.S.C. 6301- 6339 (Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) is at least five percent of all schools in the state receiving funding under 20 U.S.C. 6301- 6339. Schools designated for comprehensive support and improvement will maintain the designation until the school meets one of the-following criteria in this subsection. A school designated for comprehensive support and improvement based on the lowest five percent of the Alaska school performance system scores keeps that designation for three years. After three years, the school will be exited from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement if the school no longer meets the lowest five percent criteria for designation and if the school's Alaska school performance system score has improved since the comprehensive support and improvement designation. A school may also be exited from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement if the school meets the school's long-term goal or measures of interim progress for the all students' group in academic achievement in English language arts and mathematics, in the four-year graduation rate, and in English learner progress, if applicable. A school designated for comprehensive support and improvement based on a four-year graduation rate of less than or equal to 66 2/3 percent will be exited from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement when the school's graduation rate exceeds 66 2/3 percent.

A school designated for comprehensive support and improvement based on the same consistently under performing subgroup will be exited from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement when the Alaska school performance system scores for all subgroups in the school indicate that the subgroup for which the school was identified is no longer consistently under performing and the subgroup's Alaska school performance system score has improved since the designation for comprehensive support and improvement.

(c) The department will designate a school annually for targeted support and improvement if the school has not been designated for comprehensive support and improvement but has one or more consistently under performing subgroups. The department will determine a subgroup consistently under performing if the Alaska school performance system score for that subgroup in a school is equal to or less than the highest Alaska school performance system score of the schools designated for comprehensive support and improvement under (4) of this section based on the lowest performing five percent. Schools will be first designated for targeted support and improvement in the fall of 2018, and will be designated annually thereafter. A school designated for targeted support and improvement will be exited from the designation of target support and improvement when the Alaska school performance system scores for all subgroups in the school indicate that the school has no consistently under performing subgroups and the Alaska school performance system scores for the subgroups that led to the initial designation have improved.

(d) The department will designate schools for universal support annually if the school receives an Alaska school performance system score and the school was not designated for comprehensive support and improvement or targeted support and improvement.

(e) For a school that enrolls students only in grades kindergarten, one or two, the department will report the Alaska school performance system score and designation of the school that enrolls students in grade three that receives the students from the school.

(f) For schools that do not receive performance score under 4 AAC 06.812 the department will conduct a small school performance review. The deparment will designate a school that does not receive a performance system score under 4 AAC 4 AAC 4 AAc 06.812(d) and (e) with a small schools designation. A small schools designation will include one of the following:

(g) In order to protect personally identifiable student information under (f) of this section, the department will conduct a small school performance review. For schools that do not receive performance score under 4 AAC 06.812. The performance review will consider;

(h) A school that receives a designation for small school comprehensive support and improvement or targeted support and improvement will complete a comprehensive support and improvement plan under 4 AAC 06.864 or 4 AAC 06.868 that addresses the indicators applicable to the the school. The department will conduct a small school performance review annually. A school designated for small school comprehensive support and improvement or for small school targeted support and improvement will exit the designation immediately after the small school performance review indicates that the school no longer requires the designation.