School-wide Value-Added focuses on student growth, not achievement, by examining multiple years of student achievement data to produce a fair, accurate, and reliable measure of student progress. Measuring student progress is important because it helps schools understand how much growth students are making and the effect campus staff have on academic performance.

School-wide Value-Added measures how much progress students on a campus made relative to the expectation of progress. The expectation of progress is defined by the individual testing history of students within the school and how other students similar to them performed across the state on average.

For the PPfT Appraisal, both the reading and math STAAR/EOC scores from the prior year will be used for calculating the School-wide Value-Added score each year. All t eachers will receive the School-wide Value-Added score as part of the PPfT Appraisal Summative Score.