Additional Information About 2017-18 Annual Education Report

For more information about the 2017-18 Annual Education Report, please refer to this memo from the Michigan Department of Education.

The Annual Education Report (AER) provides the public with detailed information on teacher quality, student assessment and accountability for schools, districts, and the state in one convenient place.

The data are important because it both provides public transparency of educational reporting and helps school districts easily package all of the required data elements needed for federal reporting in one location, to save valuable time and resources.

The Annual Education Report is designed to meet the federal requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for annual reporting. For this report, CEPI provides all of the information on teacher quality, student assessment and accountability for schools, districts and the state as well as National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) information. You can search by entity (school, district, intermediate school district, and statewide). You can select each of these four reports:

• Teacher Qualifications: Identifies teacher qualifications in relation to requirements. Here you can find how many teachers in a school, district or across the state possess specific qualifications.
• Student Assessment: Presents assessment information for English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 to 8 and 11, and science for grades 4, 7 and 11, compared to targets for all students as well as subgroups of students. The report helps users understand achievement progress within grades and schools, and to make comparisons to district, state and national achievement benchmarks.
• Accountability: Uses information from assessments, graduation and attendance rates, and school quality measures, to determine if the school is meeting accountability targets. Here you can identify how well your school is serving the overall academic needs of students. More information about school accountability is available on the MDE Accountability page.

• NAEP report. The NAEP, commonly referred to as "the Nation's Report Card," is another important assessment tool used to determine student progress. NAEP administers a state level assessment in mathematics and reading every two years. The most current results are from the year 2017. NAEP and M-STEP have different assessment frameworks, and define their performance level descriptions differently, so they can't be directly compared. NAEP is administered in the winter; M-STEP is administered in the spring. NAEP data is reported at the state level only. The NAEP report is the same for all Michigan school districts and provides a benchmark showing how Michigan students performed on national performance standards.

You can easily link to, print with cover letter, and distribute these reports to fulfill all annual education report requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) until the full implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). To fulfill the state's requirements for an annual education report, the district and schools must add the following components:

• The process for assigning students to each school

• The status of school improvement plan

• A description of each specialized school

•  The status of core curriculum implementation

• Information about locally administered assessments

• Parent-Teacher conference data

•  Postsecondary and/or college accredited courses and dual enrollment

Most of these data are locally generated and can be addressed in the AER cover letters to fulfill both the federal and state requirements in a single report. For more information about the 2017-18 Annual Education Report, please refer to this memo from the Michigan Department of Education.

The Annual Education Report (AER) includes all required federal reporting data to meet federal requirements.

The Annual Education Report includes information related to assessments, accountability, and teacher quality, including data from all local education agencies in the state. The four data elements for the AER are assessments, accountability, teacher quality, and NAEP.

To meet federal guidelines, the report includes this assessment data:

• All students in all grade levels that have been tested, not just students enrolled for a full academic year.

• Assessment data on reading/language arts and mathematics assessments.

• Beginning with the 2007-2008 school years, required data from science assessments.

• The report includes the following accountability data required on state report cards:

• Data on student performance on the state’s additional academic indicators.

The report also includes the following required teacher quality data for public elementary and secondary school teachers:

• The professional qualifications of all public elementary and secondary teachers in the state (e.g., bachelors and advanced degrees, licensure).

• The percentage of all public elementary and secondary teachers teaching with emergency or provisional credentials.

• The percentage of classes in the state not taught by highly qualified teachers.

Report Labels

Location/Name/Type/Entity:  You can select and compare data at different entity levels: statewide, by intermediate school district (ISD), by school district, and by individual schools that include all local education agency (LEA) and public school academy (PSA) schools. It is important to note public school academies are also referred to as charter schools and considered their own district.

Race/Ethnicity:  Definitions follow U.S. Department of Education guidelines for race and ethnicity. 

Economically Disadvantaged (ED):  Students who have been determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price meals via locally gathered and approved family applications under the National School Lunch program, are in households receiving food (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) or cash (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) assistance, are homeless, are migrant, are in foster care, or, beginning in 2017-18, certain MEDICAID eligible children.  When any of these conditions are present, a student is considered economically disadvantaged.

English Learners:  English Learners are students who speak a language other than English as their primary language and who have difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or understanding English.

Migrant Students:  Students whose families have moved within the previous 36 months to obtain temporary or seasonal work in agriculture or fishing.

Students with Disabilities:  Students with one or more specific impairments that require special education or related services and have an Individual Education Plan (IEP).

<10, <5%, >95%:  These labels will be used in place of the actual data when there is a risk of identifying an individual student (unless you have logged in as a secure user).

Data Collection 

The Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) collected the data used to compile this report. The databases used include: 

CEPI's Michigan Student Data System (MSDS), to locate the student's high school building, district, and intermediate school district as well as demographics. Specific rules about the collection can be found in the MSDS Collection Details Manual.

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability, which sets policies for M-STEP administration, provided the test data.