Units of Measure: wherever possible data will be reported in standard or consistent units
Rate per 1000
Percent
Percentile
Scale Score
Limitations of Data sets: Within each data set, the limitations of that data will be noted.
Community: For the purposes of this data base, ‘community’ will be defined by school district footprint.
Measures of Central Tendency:
Mean: is the number most often used as an average, computed by adding up all points of data in a data set and then dividing the total by the number of data points
Median: is the number in the middle of the data set when the numbers are arranged in order from least to greatest
Mode: is the number in the data set that appears most often in that set