Las Cruces Public Schools | Student Progress

Academic Growth

Academic growth measures whether students are learning less than, about the same as, or more than other students who are academically similar to them.

Growth in reading

49th

percentile

What does this mean?

This measure shows whether students are learning less than, about the same as, or more than other students who are academically similar to them in reading.

How was this calculated?

Comparing a student’s growth to similar performing students generates a student growth percentage or SGP. The school’s growth percentile is the median SGP of all students enrolled at the school.

Compared to:

Growth in math

48th

percentile

What does this mean?

This measure shows whether students are learning less than, about the same as, or more than other students who are academically similar to them in math.

How was this calculated?

Comparing a student’s growth to similar performing students generates a student growth percentage or SGP. The school’s growth percentile is the median SGP of all students enrolled at the school.

Compared to:

Overall student improvement

This container shows the breakdown for both reading and math subjects, for each of the three groups of growth levels.

Below 25: Less than a year of improvement
25-74: Expected improvement
75 and up: More than a year of improvement

Students are measured on their progress year-over-year. The values have been grouped into the three categories of less than a year, expected, and more than a year.