Washington School Performance Metrics for 2024 Accountability

2024 annual data contains the Washington School Improvement Framework (WSIF) scores for federal accountability under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The dataset includes decile rankings, rates, and numerators/denominators for attendance, proficiency, graduation, and other academic indicators. It is published by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction via data.wa.gov.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between `NinthGradeOnTrack_Rate` and `Grad_FourYear_Rate` to study early warning indicators for graduation.
• Cluster schools by performance deciles like `Proficiency_ELA_Decile` and `Growth_Math_Decile` to identify groups with similar academic profiles.
• Predict a school's `School_Type` classification using features such as `DualCredit_Rate` and `RegularAttendance_Rate` derived from numerator/denominator columns.
• Assess equity by comparing `EL_Progress_Rate` across different `District_Organization_Id` groups.
• Model the correlation between `Growth_Math_Median_SGP` (Student Growth Percentile) and `Proficiency_Math_Rate` to understand growth versus proficiency.

Strengths

• Includes over 30 specific metrics covering attendance, proficiency, growth, graduation, and dual credit.
• Provides granular data with both rates and underlying counts (e.g., `Proficiency_Math_Numerator`, `Proficiency_Math_Denominator`) for validation.
• Data is recent, with a last update timestamp of 2025-09-15.

Limitations

• The total number of schools or rows is unknown, making it difficult to assess sample size and representativeness.
• Lacks direct student-level data; all metrics are aggregated at the school level.
• Historical data for longitudinal analysis is not provided in this single annual snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), published on data.wa.gov.

Collection Method

Collected and calculated for federal school accountability reporting under ESSA.

Time Range

2024 academic year.

Freshness

Annual update; most recent data is for the 2024 reporting year.

Geography

State of Washington, USA.