15-743

15-743. Test results; annual report

A. The state board of education shall provide annual reports for every school and
district and the state as a whole. The state board shall annually submit these reports
to school districts, the legislature and the county school superintendents and shall make
them available to the public. The state board shall publish and distribute the reports
by September 1 and shall also provide a cumulative summary of the reports every five
years. The annual reports and cumulative summary results shall include:

1. Average and range scores on the Arizona instrument to measure standards test.

2. Standardized test scores by subject area according to percentiles and stanines
for the school, school district, county, state and nation.

3. Achievement related nontest indicator data collected in the survey of teachers,
principals and superintendents as required by section 15-741, including information
related to dropout rates by ethnicity for each grade level and graduation rates and
postsecondary employment and education by ethnicity. In reporting such data, the state
board of education shall not violate the provisions of the family educational rights and
privacy act (P.L. 93-380), as amended, nor disclose personally identifiable information.

4. The numbers of pupils who have completed the academic standards at grades three,
eight and twelve.

B. Test results on individual pupils shall not be made available to the public by
name or individually identifiable reference.

C. The state board shall provide a copy of the results from the tests prescribed in
section 15-741, subsection A for each school district to that school district. No results
may be released to the public until ten days after the reports are provided to each
school district.

D. The state board shall provide each school district participating in the testing
program with a copy of each pupil's standardized norm-referenced test scores in reading,
language arts and mathematics, and the associated grade equivalents, percentiles and
stanines for the school, school district, county, state and nation, a report of pupil
progress on an ongoing and annual basis, showing the trends in gain or loss in pupil
achievement over time in reading, language arts and mathematics for all years in which
pupils are enrolled in the school district for an entire school year and for which this
information is available and a report of the pupil progress for pupils not enrolled in a
district for an entire school year. The state board shall also provide each school
district with each pupil's Arizona instrument to measure standards test scores and the
Arizona instrument to measure standards test scores for the school, district, county and
state.

E. The school district shall provide a parent or guardian of each pupil
participating in the standardized norm-referenced testing part of the program with a copy
of the pupil's score in reading, language arts and mathematics, and the percentiles and
stanines. The school district shall provide a parent or guardian of each pupil with a
copy of the pupil's scores on the Arizona instrument to measure standards test and the
associated scores for the school, district, county and state. The school district shall
make available to the public through the reports those scores for each school in the
district and for the school district, county, state and nation.

F. Each pupil's Arizona instrument to measure standards test results for grade
twelve shall be recorded on the pupil's high school transcript. The state board of
education shall prescribe the format for recording Arizona instrument to measure
standards test results on high school transcripts.