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GLOSSARY OF TERMS - STUDENT AND EDUCATOR REPORT DATA

Beginning in 2018-19, Average Class Size was calculated by using the total number of students in each course/section for specified courses divided by the number of those course/sections. Select courses include K-2 and courses aligned to State assessments. Some schools will not be utilizing the K-2 course codes until the 2021-22 school year and therefore these averages may be missing or incomplete until that time. The data are derived from the Student Information and Repository System (SIRS) Student Class Entry Exit. LEAs should be reporting all students in a section and creating sections that are unique across buildings and include all students assigned to that class. Prior to 2018-19, counts were collected from teacher forms.

Eligible for Free Lunch and Eligible for Reduced-Price Lunch percentages are determined by dividing the number of approved lunch applicants by the Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) enrollment in full-day Kindergarten through Grade 12.

Instructional Modality is displayed for student attendance codes Present-In-School and Present-Out-of-School. For each Instructional Modality, the percentage is determined by dividing the number of Present days by the total number of Present days for all modalities combined (remote, in-person, both).

Principals include full- and part-time. Data sourced from SIRS Staff Snapshot, Course Instructor Assignment, and Staff Assignment.

Annual Attendance Rate is determined by dividing the school's (or district's) total actual attendance by the total possible attendance for a school year. A school's (or district's) actual attendance is the sum of the number of students in attendance on each day the school (or district's schools) was open during the school year. Possible attendance is the sum of the number of enrolled students who should have been in attendance on each day the school (or schools) was open during the school year. The state's Annual Attendance Rate is determined by dividing total actual attendance for all districts by total possible attendance for all districts.

Student Suspension rate is determined by dividing the number of students who were suspended from school (not including in-school suspensions) for one full day or longer anytime during the school year by the Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) day enrollments for that school year. A student is counted only once, regardless of whether the student was suspended one or more times during the school year.

Teacher Attendance Rate is based on the number of days a teacher was reported as absent divided by the contract work days reported to NYSED subtracted from 100%. Teachers are identified as those providing instruction in the SIRS Course Instructor Assignment. Teacher attendance data are sourced from SIRS Staff Attendance.

Teacher Turnover Rate for a specified school year is the count of teachers in the prior school year who did not return to a teaching position in the district in the current school year expressed as a percentage. Data were sourced from the Personnel Master File as reported in the Teacher Access and Authorization (TAA) application.


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