The District Demographic Index provides a lens to understand districts that are serving similar demographics of students. The Index combines demographic and community factors that are often correlated to student academic performance on standardized assessments. The most recent year of data available at the time of calculation was used. The index is calculated as:

District Demographic Index = [(40% * SY 2018-19 District FRPL Eligible Rate) + (20% * SY 18-19 District Emerging Multilingual Rate) + (20% * SY 18-19 District SPED Rate) + (20% SY 2017-18 Inter-district Student Mobility Rate)] * 100

Data Suppression:
All data included in Outliers 2020 are subject to the current reporting and suppression rules used by the Colorado Department of Education, which vary based on the data set. Most datasets are subject to sample-size suppression of small cohorts of students including some demographic data. Many datasets are also subject to cell-size suppression that is applied, regardless of the size of the cohort. Datasets about aggregate academic performance are subject to both sample-size and cell-size suppression, as well as complementary suppression, whereby additional cells of data are suppressed when a cohort or cell does not meet the reporting threshold to avoid backwards mapping to the cell value. 

A+ deeply believes student privacy and safety should not be compromised through public data reporting. We also believe that the current suppression rules go well beyond the requirements to appropriately protect individual student data, and in fact compromise the public’s ability to understand how the education system serves students. For more information, see www.righttoknowco.org/report-cards/.^[2]

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