Next Year Grade Level Descriptor: WISEdata
Next Year Grade Level Descriptor describes the grade that the student will enter at the next school in which they enroll. Use this data element on the Student School Association to accurately indicate the student's grade level for the next term. Next Year Grade Level Descriptor is required any time there is an exit date and exit type. Requirements that apply to districts also apply to non-district charter schools.
USES: This data element is required for Choice and public schools. Next Year Grade Level is used for multiple data collection, reporting, and accountability purposes. These purposes currently include dropout/high school completion/graduation rates, adequate yearly progress, and information system improvement. Federally mandated methods of calculating rates currently differ depending on the intended use of these data.
Use Next Year Grade Level for students who:
- exit a school at the end of a school year and will repeat the same grade level the following year.
- Enter the same grade level as the student's current grade level in the Next Year Grade Level Descriptor.
- exit a school at the end of a school year and will continue on to the next grade level the following year.
- Enter the next grade level in the Next Year Grade Level Descriptor.
- exit a school mid-year and enroll in another school at the same grade level to complete the year.
- Enter the same grade level as the student's current grade level in the Next Year Grade Level Descriptor.
NextYearGradeLevelDescriptor is a set list of values used to describe a student's grade level at the start of the next term. Grade level promotion occurs when a student has made sufficient progress over the course of the school year to advance to a higher grade level.
Reporting Grade Level Placement for High School Students
These are DPI recommendations.
Exception: For students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, record the grade to which children of the same age would be assigned if that school applied a traditional grade structure.
| If the number of credits required for graduation is: | Then the minimum number of credits earned by the student for advancement to the specified grade must at least equal the following: | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12 | |
| 21 | 2.2 | 7.5 | 12.7 |
| 22 | 2.3 | 7.8 | 13.3 |
| 23 | 2.4 | 8.2 | 13.9 |
| 24 | 2.5 | 8.5 | 14.5 |
| 25 | 2.6 | 8.9 | 15.1 |
| 26 | 2.7 | 9.2 | 15.7 |
| 27 | 2.8 | 9.6 | 16.3 |
| 28 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 17 |
USES: For public reporting purposes, data is aggregated by grade level placement. Year-to-year changes in grade level placement in the same district are used in public reporting of grade advancement/retention rates. Grade advancement/retention and habitual truancy are not publicly reported for students at the K4, or PK grade levels. Dropouts are not publicly reported for students at the K4-6 grade levels. Grade level placement is also used in the generation of Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS) roster files.
FAQs, Details, and Points to Note
1. One Grade Level:
Each student may have only one grade level placement at any given point in time.
2. District High School Credit Requirements:
Districts are free to establish, for local purposes, separate grade level placement standards lower than the above listed 'minimum threshold credits-earned' numbers from grades 10 through 12 as long as grade level placement data submitted for DPI data collection purposes are consistent with the 'minimum threshold credits-earned' numbers in the table shown above. Districts may establish additional or more rigorous requirements for placement at grades 10 through 12 and use these requirements for DPI data collection purposes.
3. Students with Disabilities:
Grade level placement of students with disabilities may be based on chronological age in the case of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who may have grade level achievement standards that are different from those that apply to other students.
4. School Directory:
Grade level placement must be consistent with the grade range submitted for the school in the School Directory application. GRADE ORDER: K4, PK, KG, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12. If the grade range reported in the School Directory application is incorrect, district staff authorized for School Directory update can revise the grade range. After grade ranges for schools become final in January for the current school year, you can no longer make changes in School Directory.
5. Grades 10-12:
For grades 10 through 12, grade level placement is based on accumulation of the minimum number of credits specified in the table above. The assumption is that each year a student would accumulate at least one fourth of the credits required to graduate. To be reported as beginning a specific grade, a student may have a deficit of credits not greater than one-seventh (1/7) of the expected credit accumulation towards the district's high school graduation requirements. For example, a student with 7.0 credits as of the beginning of the fall semester could be reported at up to the tenth grade level at that time. Districts may establish additional or more rigorous requirements for placement at grades 10 through 12 and use these requirements for DPI data collection purposes.
6. Completed vs. Uncompleted School Term:
Assign the same grade level descriptor to students who did not complete the school term.
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