Growing Toward Success - Minnesota's Growth Model

As part of Minnesota's assessment system, The Minnesota Department of Education measures whether or not students are meeting the state math and reading academic standards, which are what they should know and be able to do in a particular grade.

If a student meets those standards, they are considered to be proficient.

With input from educators, the Minnesota Department of Education has created a growth model. The growth model is designed to help parents and educators to track students' progress toward proficiency from year-to-year, in order to better determine whether they are gaining and maintaining skills necessary to be successful after high school.

The growth model chart below identifies the percent of students in your district who were proficient in 2008. The individual boxes show how all students progressed during the 2008-09 school year towards knowing and understanding the content of academic standards at their grade level.

• Proficient but made low growth
• Proficient and continued to grow
• Proficient and made exceptional growth
• Not proficient and made low growth toward proficiency
• Not proficient but made some growth toward proficiency
• Not proficient but made exceptional growth toward proficiency