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Ten Year District Enrollment Trends
November 23, 2016 Enrollment trends are positive for the Des Moines Public Schools. The district experienced 1.2 percent growth from 2015-16 to 2016-17. One of the fastest growing populations within DMPS are English language learners, a population that has grown by over 60 percent in the past ten years. Read more » Fall 2016 District Academic Achievement Profile
September 30, 2016 The District Academic Achievement Profile is an annual publication started by Des Moines Public Schools in 2013 to provide, under one cover, a review of a variety of assessment tools used during the previous school year and highlight the growth being made by students at all grade levels. Read more » Measuring Growth with the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress
September 12, 2016 At Des Moines Public Schools, we embrace growth. In other words, we want to know whether our students are making gains academically throughout the school year. Because we value our students’ growth in the classroom, this year we begin a new and improved way to measure their progress. Read more » The Iowa School Report Card: Missing the Mark
December 16th, 2015 The Iowa Department of Education has released the Iowa School Report Card, a tool that is supposed to measure all public schools in the state. However, from an over-reliance on the Iowa Assessments to not acknowledging the growth being made by many students, there are several areas of concern with this new tool. Below is … Read more » |
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