Data+Resources

[|Maine Department of Education] Overview of all the links available online from the Maine Department of Education. Below highlights many of the link found on this site.

=Informational Resources=

[|Maine's Comprehensive Assessment System (MeCAS)] The Comprehensive Assessment System is designed to serve three purposes: inform and guide teaching and learning; monitor and hold educational units accountable in achieving the //Learning Results//; and certify achievement of Maine’s //Learning Results//.

[|Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Status of Maine Schools] AYP Status of Maine Schools under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

[|Continuous Improvement Priority Schools (CIPS)] CIPS Status of Maine Schools under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

[|New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP)] Maine has joined New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont in the yearly development and administration of the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP). This assessment is used by participating states to meet //No Child Left Behind Act// requirements for testing reading and mathematics once each year from grade 3 through grade 8. The states also include a writing assessment administered at grades 5 and 8. The first NECAP administration in Maine begins in October 2009.

[|Zipskinny] gives US Census Data and other national data by zip code. There's even a feature to compare multiple zip codes. When using this source, be sure to look carefully at each page to see what the source of the data is and report that in your document. For example, one page states, "Source: 2005 data from U.S. Dept. of Education National Center for Education Statistics."

=**Links to Pages with Data Files**= 

Demographics
[|National Center for Educational Statistics] Demographics of all School District in the United States. [|Enrollments by Schools] Public School October 1st Attending Enrollment (ethnicity) [|Free and Reduced Lunch] Maine Department of Education % Free and Reduced School Lunch Report (sort by district and you will find percentages for schools within each district) [|Special Education Data] Maine Department of Education Special Education Child Count Report. [|MEA School Summary Reports] [|NECAP New England Common Assessment Program][| Maine High School Assessment (MHSA) School Summary Reports] (Ethnicity, ELL, IEP data) [|Graduation Rates] High School Graduation Rates. [|Dropout Rates 2001-02 through 2005-06] High School Dropout Rates. [|Graduation Rates and Dropout Rates 2005-06 through 2009-10] 

Learning Results
[|Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) Results] MEA results available by grade level, school is provided in an Excel format.

[|MEA School Summary Reports] Links to MEA ** summary school reports ** for each individual school.

[|NECAP New England Common Assessment Program] Links to NECAP** summary school reports ** for each individual school (grades 3-8). Go to the "Archives" section on the bottom of the page and click on the year you need. On the next page, click on "TESTING YEAR Individual School, District and State Level Reports" (be consistent in using TESTING YEAR for all your data and not TEACHING YEAR). On the next page, click on the X for your grade in your school.

[|Maine High School Assessment (MHSA) School Summary Reports] Links to MHSA and ** SAT summary school reports ** for each high school.

[|Maine High School Completion Rate] Completion and Dropout Rates for each high school is provided in an Excel format.

[|National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)] Every two years, Maine schools are chosen to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is administered in all 50 states. Links to snapshot reports are found on this site.

[|Student Enrollment and Demographics] Definition of Maine reporting categories (ethnicity, gender, attendance, dropout rates, etc...)
 * Other Resources**

Your district's Essential Programs and Services (EPS) report has most of the information you need. Ask your district's central office for the "summaries page" (a.k.a. "the count page") for your district. It's the top page of the annual October 1 report that every district is required to file with the state. For this project, you need 3 years of data, so ask for the 3 most recent summaries pages--one for each fiscal year. Here is a sample from RSU 15 from fiscal year (FY) 2010. Some folks have been successful taking this printout to their district and saying something like, "I need the page that's like this one but for our district for the last three years of EPS reports."