K-12 Education Solutions
Student Success
Provide meaningful data on student progress and likely future performance. Inform educators and parents with dynamic web-based reports.
How SAS Supports K-12 Student Success
SAS applies the statistical rigor necessary to provide precise, reliable information on students’ growth with a more complete picture of student learning.
Comprehensive look at performance
- Consider a student's complete testing history, spanning multiple grades and subjects.
- Accommodate different types of – and changes in – assessments.
More than a single determinant of student progress
- Provide a reflective look at student growth.
- Deliver diagnostic insights.
- Predict likely student outcomes on future academic milestones.
Analytics built on experience
- Rely on more than 20 years of experience working with K-12 education data.
- Trust the application used across more than 25 states and 3,000 districts, supporting more than 15 million students and over 500,000 educators.
Easy implementation
- Get up and running fast with analytics and reporting delivered through a fully hosted and secure web application.
- Accommodate adjustments to district or state policy changes.
- Use a trusted solution grounded in flexible, transparent modeling.
Learning Loss & Recovery
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Why do K-12 education agencies choose SAS for student success?
SAS follows the progress of students over time and provides diagnostic information to identify students' various needs, helping foster their growth and development.
Gain key insights
Drive instructional decisions that improve teaching and learning.
Predict student success
Report on students' predicted success probabilities at numerous academic milestones.
Identify at-risk students
Provide educators with information for effective planning and differentiated instruction.
Deliver data you can act on
Display information in multiple usable formats for educational decision making.
First, we use PVAAS data to ensure we’re playing to the strengths of each teacher so they can have the greatest impact on their students. Second, we use PVAAS data as a motivator to show teachers that their hard work and commitment is making a difference in student growth. Stacey Cherny Principal South Side Elementary School (Dauphin County)
Customer Success in K-12 Education
Working Smarter With SAS
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Michigan’s Anchor Bay & Armada Area School Districts
Nudging students and school districts toward unimagined success
Using SAS EVAAS for K-12 was instrumental in both Anchor Bay and Armada Area school districts’ evolutions in monitoring academic growth and identifying students who could benefit from additional support, enrichment or a nudge to help get them on a better path forward.
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Longview & Austin, TX, School Districts
Analyzing student test data to improve student growth
SAS is helping Longview and Austin, TX, school districts use value-added analysis to follow individual student progress, then use that information to increase educational effectiveness.
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State of Tennessee
Predicting K-12 academic performance to develop individual plans to help each student succeed
SAS helped Tennessee develop the state's educational value-added assessment system (TVAAS), which enables educators to collect and analyze data for making more informed decisions about the appropriate path for each student and act on those decisions with confidence.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education
Using analytics to help students and teachers reach their full potential
The Pennsylvania Department of Education uses SAS EVAAS for K-12 to make sound instructional choices and foster student growth.
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Union Middle School
Turning things around at a low-performing middle school
Union Middle School in Sampson County, NC, uses SAS EVAAS reports and student projections to gain insights for improving student growth and attendance and providing strong professional development for teachers.
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Properly funding and serving school districts with 750,000 K-12 students
The South Carolina Department of Education uses SAS for smart data exploration to advance K-12 public education programs.
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Accelerating school performance with analytics
SAS helped Duval County Public Schools transform into one of Florida’s top-performing school districts by using data and predictive analytics to improve school performance, track student progression and monitor school climate.
Recommended Resources for Student Success in K-12 Education
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SAS for School Reopening OptimizationSAS for School Reopening Optimization empowers school authorities to make data-driven decisions for establishing a detailed schedule that maximizes the amount of face-to-face instruction while adhering to local health and safety guidelines.