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District presents public and internal student‑outcome dashboards; staff outline measures for progress monitoring
Summary
The district’s Research, Planning and Assessment team showed a public dashboard and two internal, site‑facing dashboards that aggregate student outcome measures aligned to the district’s vision, values, goals and guardrails.
SFUSD’s research, planning and accountability (RPA) team walked the board through a suite of student‑outcome measures and interactive dashboards intended to increase transparency and support school site decision‑making.
What was presented: RPA described a public dashboard that aggregates school‑ and district‑level measures (enrollment, attendance, SBAC, suspension data, SEL/culture surveys) and two internal dashboards for site leaders that contain personally identifiable student information, can be refreshed more frequently (every six weeks or more), and support progress monitoring and operational planning.
Key points: - The public dashboard is updated twice a year and is intended to provide the community with accessible disaggregations and trend data for commonly reported metrics. - Internal dashboards—available to site leaders and district managers—include more frequent updates and the ability to filter down to student‑level lists (for authorized users) to inform interventions and staffing decisions. - RPA staff said they welcome feedback on additional filters and downloads the public might want; they noted the possibility of publishing a downloadable public research file (stripped of PII) for community researchers.
Board questions and staff responses: Commissioners asked about integrating measures (for example, how attendance relates to SBAC or suspensions), whether dashboards allow cross‑metric queries (yes, internal dashboards permit interactive filtering such as examining SBAC outcomes for chronically absent students), how grade‑level breakdowns are surfaced for site councils, and whether educators have received training. Staff said they have provided data PD for site leaders and are planning additional trainings and documentation; they also described work to expand access to licenses for site councils and to publish clearer documentation for public users.
Why it matters: The tools give school leaders near‑real‑time access to progress‑monitoring data, and they provide the public with centralized, publicly accessible metrics. The RPA team emphasized that these dashboards are living products and invited commissioner and community input on priority metrics and downloads.
Next steps: RPA will continue adding documentation, hold trainings for principals and site teams, and explore a sanitized public research file for community analysis.
