This Audit of Educational Effectiveness for the Indian Prairie CUSD #204 was commissioned by the Board of Education of the Indian Prairie CUSD #204 and the Superintendent as a means of improving the quality of teaching and learning in the school district.
Since November 1999, SchoolMatch has collected and analyzed data from each regular elementary, middle and high school in Indian Prairie CUSD #204. The Audit program was initiated in a similar fashion to that which has assisted hundreds of school systems throughout the country. The SchoolMatch site team conducted an on-site visitation to the Indian Prairie School District on May 10-12, 2000
Using a variety of data sources, including SchoolMatch records, data available from the U.S. and state departments of education, professional judgment and research techniques (data analysis, interviewing, polling, etc.), our auditors examined a wide range of performance indicators in the Indian Prairie School District. These indicators range from test scores to student and staff attendance to public support for the school system (without which no school system can succeed). In each case, the results have been compared against those of the best of similar student and staff demographic populations nationwide.
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