STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
F. PHILIP HANDY,
Chairman
T. WILLARD FAIR,
Vice Chairman
Members
LINDA J. EADS, ED.D.
CHARLES PATRICK GARCÍA
JULIA L. JOHNSON
WILLIAM L. PROCTOR, PH.D.
LINDA K. TAYLOR
GARNET L. DUKES, JR.
Bureau Chief
Accountability, Research, and Measurement
325 W. GAINES STREET • SUITE 852• TALLAHASSEE, FL 32399-0400 • (850) 245-0400 • www.fldoe.org
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
JIM HORNE
Commissioner of Education
March 5, 2004
MEMORANDUM
TO:
School
District Finance Officers
School
District
MIS
Contacts
FROM:
Lavan
Dukes
SUBJECT:
Return on Investment Calculation
The purpose of this memorandum is to ask for your assistance with a major Department initiative. Within the next few weeks,
the Department will unveil its “Return on Investment” (ROI) website to provide performance information on individual schools
and districts. Prior to the release of this website, we are providing the supporting data for your review.
In order to be certain that all items in this site are have been reviewed by districts, we are providing both data files and report files
that have include the data used in the for calculation of the “Return On Investment” index. This includes up to seven data files
and seven report files which contain 2001-2002 data. All of the data in the files are for the 2001-2002 year. The data set names
are:
DPSXX.GQ.F70461.TYPE**.0102 for the data files;
DPSXX.GQ.F70462.TYPE**.0102 for the report files.
Where XX = district number and ** = type (01, 02, 03, 21, 22, 88, 99)
Type 01 = Elementary
Type 02 = Middle
Type 03 = High
Type 21 = ESE
Type 22 = DJJ/Alternative
Type 88 = No ROI calculated. Deleted from ROI.
Type 99 = No ROI calculated. Other data available in ROI system.
These data files should be downloaded and reviewed by your staff. Please review the assignment of schools to the categories
above. If there are concerns regarding these data provided, please contact Lavan Dukes at 850/245-0400, SUNCOM 205-0400.
In order to meet the scheduled release of the website, we need to have any comments or concerns confirmation regarding the data
by March 12, 2004.
Thank you for your assistance with this project.
cc:
District Assessment Contacts
Data File Format and Definitions
Return On Investment Data Values
Item
Name/Definition
Item
Beginning
Position
Item Length
District Number
1 2 N
The two-digit number identifying the district in which the school is located.
School Number
3 4 N
The four-digit number identifying the school for which the data are provided.
School Name
7 40 A
The name of the school.
Students Tested in
Reading, Number
47 8 N
The number of students tested on FCAT Reading who were matched to the full
academic year source data file (survey 2/survey 3 matched file).
Students Tested in
Math, Number
55 8 N
The number of students tested on FCAT Math who were matched to the full academic
year source data file (survey 2/survey 3 matched file).
Students Matched,
Number
63 8 N
The total number of students in the tested grade levels who were found (matched) at
the same school in both Survey 2 and Survey 3.
Percent Tested
71 8 N
The percent of full academic year students who were found tested on FCAT. (Note: this
data includes all students whose test records could be electronically matched.)
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Students With
Reading Learning
Gains, Number
79 8 N
The number of full academic year students with reading learning gains on FCAT. (This
is calculated separately by grade and summed for all grades in the school.)
Students With
Math Learning
Gains, Number
87 8 N
The number of full academic year students with math learning gains on FCAT. (This is
calculated separately by grade and summed for all grades in the school.)
Students With
Reading Learning
Gains, Percent
95 8 N
The percent of full academic year students with reading learning gains on FCAT.
Students With
Math Learning
Gains, Percent
103 8
N
The percent of full academic year students with math learning gains on FCAT.
Students With
FCAT Learning
Gains, Percent
111 8
N
The percent of students with learning gains on FCAT. (the sum of reading gains
percentage and math gains percentage.)
Adjusted Program
Cost per Weighted
Full-Time
Equivalent (FTE)
Student:
119 10
N
2**
Total direct and indirect program costs from the general and special revenue funds per
FTE student adjusted for variations in funding education programs created by the use of
program cost factors. This cost is further adjusted by funding provided through the ESE
Guaranteed Allocation for students in exceptional student education support levels 1, 2,
and 3.
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District Cost
Differential:
129 5
N
4**
Factor created pursuant to Section 1011.62(2), F.S., computed by adding each district’s
Florida Price Level Index for the most recent three years and dividing the sum by 3.
The result is multiplied by 0.008 and 0.200 is added to the product to generate the
district cost differential.
Numerator
134 10
N
2**
(Percentage of Students with Math Learning Gains + Percentage of Students with
Reading Learning Gains) * Percentage of Students Tested
Denominator
144 15
N
6**
(Adjusted Program Cost per Weighted FTE Student / District Cost Differential)
Return On
Investment Index
159 8
N
4**
Numerator / Denominator
**
This field can have ‘?’ if data is unavailable.
Learning gains are demonstrated in any one of three ways. They are:
(1) Improve an achievement level from 1
Æ
2, 2
Æ
3, 3
Æ
4, or 4
Æ
5.
(2) Maintain a high level of achievement in Level 3
Æ
3, 4
Æ
4, or 5
Æ
5.
(3) Stay in achievement level 1 or 2, but gain more than the required amount (in
developmental score points) between adjacent grades.
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