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Vermont Education Dashboard Release Notes

This is the change log for the Vermont Education Dashboard(VED). [TOC]

Version 1 (Date: 3/09/2020)

Student Characteristics

  • 2004 to 2018 Data Added

Student Information

  • 2004 to 2018 Data Added

Staff Information

  • 2004 to 2018 Data Added

Enrollment

  • 2004 to 2018 Data Added

Assessment

  • 2016 to 2018 Data Added

Version 1.5 (Date: 4/28/2020)

Student Characteristics

None

Student Information

None

Staff Information

None

Enrollment

None

Assessment

Added VTALT data

Version 2 (Date: 6/15/2020)

  • All data from Reportal is on the VED
  • Added Organizations
  • Added Assessment data

Student Characteristics

Added 2019 data from Grade, Race, and FRL

Student Information

Added everything for 2019

Staff Information

Added everything for 2019 and updated Emergency Licensed Teachers

Enrollment

Added 2019 and 2020

Organizations

Added for the first time (Active Orgs in 2020)

Assessment

Added Cut Score, Number of Students Tested, Science Assessment, and Average Scaled Score for 2019

Version 2.5 (Date: 10/30/2020)

  • 2019 Graduation rate updated
  • 2020 Enrollment Numbers updated
  • 2019 Gender added
  • 2020 Percentage of Students by Grade added

## Student Characteristics 2019 Gender added 2020 Percentage of Students by Grade added

Student Information

2019 Graduation rate updated

Staff Information

None

Enrollment

Updated 2020

Organizations

None

Assessment

None

Version 3 (Date: 2/12/2021)

Updating VED with Missing Data

The following convention will be used to differentiate between zeros, suppressed data, and missing data: - Zero = 0 - Suppressed = *** [ and new column in the dataset with a 1 to confirm suppression] - Null = [blank cell]

## Student Characteristics - 2019 Student Support Services Data (IEP, EST, 504) - 2020 Student Support Services Data (IEP, EST, 504) - 2021 Student Support Services Data (EST, 504) - 2019 Family Income (FRL) Data - 2020 Family Income (FRL) Data - 2021 Family Income (FRL) Data - 2019 Racial Grouping Data - 2020 Racial Grouping Data - 2021 Racial Grouping Data - 2019 Mobility Data (School Transfers before Graduation) - 2020 Mobility Data (School Transfers before Graduation) - 2019 Gender Data - 2020 Gender Data - 2021 Gender Data - 2020 Grade Data - 2021 Grade Data - 2019 Incident Data - 2020 Incident Data

Student Information

None

Staff Information

None

Enrollment

2021 added

Organizations

Latitude and Longitude added for PowerBI

Assessment

None

Individual Dashboards for each of the following areas (broken out to collect analytics on page views):

  • Student Characteristics
  • Student Information
  • Staff Information
  • Enrollment
  • Organization
  • Assessment

Patch Update on 2/19/21:

Adding SSS data last minute lead to rerun enrollment. This lead to Total enrollment numbers not matching between the two datasets.

  • Dashboard total: 78,380
  • Dataset total: 78,928

A fix was applied on 2/19/21. But this case should be considered for any last minute updates going forward.

Version 3.5 (Date: 4/26/2021)

Updating VED with Missing Data

The following convention will be used to differentiate between zeros, suppressed data, and missing data: - Zero = 0 - Suppressed = *** [ and new column in the dataset with a 1 to confirm suppression] - Null = [blank cell]

## Student Characteristics - Added a page to display the percent of students in each grade by school year for a given school. - Removed SU level and State level percentages from the new grade report page.

Student Information

  • 2020 Attendance
  • 2020 Graduation Rate
  • 2020 Promotion Rate
  • 2020 Truancy

Staff Information

  • 2019 Student to Teacher Ratio
  • 2019 Teacher to Administrator Ratio
  • 2019 Average Teacher Salary
  • 2019 Emergency License Teachers Ratio

Enrollment

None

Organizations

  • Update to SU Names after feedback

Assessment

None

Version 4 (Date: 11/5/2021)

Student Characteristics

No update in this version

Student Information

No update in this version

Staff Information

No update in this version

Enrollment

No update in this version

Organizations

No update in this version

Assessment

State-level 2021

Exclusionary Discipline 2018 through 2021

  • Racial Grouping
  • English Language Learner
  • Free Reduced Lunch
  • Gender

Course Enrollment 2018 through 2021

  • Racial Grouping
  • English Language Learner
  • Free Reduced Lunch
  • Gender

Version 4.5 (Date: 12/29/2021)

## Student Characteristics No update in this version

Student Information

No update in this version

Staff Information

No update in this version

Enrollment

No update in this version

Organizations

No update in this version

Assessment

State-level 2021

Exclusionary Discipline

  • 2018 - 2021
  • Student Support Services

Course Enrollment

No update in this version

Chronic Absenteeism

  • 2004 through 2021
  • English Language Learner
  • Free Reduced Lunch
  • Gender
  • Student Support Services

Organizations

Updated to include Org Name and Supervisory name in the download

Version 5 (Date: 5/2/2022)

## Student Characteristics No update in this version

Student Information

  • Graduation Rate 2021
  • Promotion Rate 2021
  • Attendance Rate 2021
  • Truancy Rate 2021

Staff Information

  • Student: Administrator Ratio 2021
  • Emergency Licensed Teachers 2021
  • Teacher: Administrator Ratio 2021
  • Average Teacher Salary 2021
  • Student: Teacher Ratio 2021

Enrollment

No update in this version

Organizations

No update in this version

Assessment

  • Alternative 2021
  • General 2021

Exclusionary Discipline

No update in this version

Course Enrollment

No update in this version

Chronic Absenteeism

No update in this version

Version 5.5 (Date: 9/8/2023)

## Student Characteristics No update in this version

Student Information

  • Graduation Rate 2022
  • Promotion Rate 2022
  • Attendance Rate 2022
  • Truancy Rate 2022

Staff Information

No update in this version

Enrollment

2022

Organizations

No update in this version

Assessment

  • Alternative 2022
  • General 2022

Exclusionary Discipline

No update in this version

Course Enrollment

No update in this version

Chronic Absenteeism

No update in this version