How can I create a District Report Card based on key performance indicators?

A holistic report card can be immensely useful for getting a snapshot of the district’s educational performance. By combining academic and administrative indicators, a comprehensive picture can be generated that can help identify areas of focus and understand the relative performance of the district with respect to other districts and the state/national average.

Creating a District Report Card would typically involve the following steps:

  1. Identifying the key performance indicators
  2. Collecting and assembling the necessary data
  3. Generating the report card with visualisations and key takeaways

Some suggested indicators are listed below:

  • No. of schools
  • Enrolment
  • No. of teachers
  • No. of schools with Zero Enrolment, less than 15 Enrolment or less than 30 Enrolment
  • No. of schools with Zero Teachers or Single Teacher
  • No. of schools with Zero Classrooms or Single Classroom
  • Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) at Primary, Upper Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary level
  • Student Classroom Ratio (SCR) at Primary, Upper Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary level

Infrastructural Availability Percentage of schools -

  • Having functional drinking water
  • Having functional boys toilet
  • Having functional girls toilet
  • Having functional CWSN toilet
  • Having Electricity
  • Having Ramps
  • Having Boundary Wall
  • Having Playground
  • Having Kitchen shed
  • Having Dining hall
  • Not having a pucca building
  • Provided supplementary graded materials
  • Having Library or Book Bank or Reading Corner
  • Having CAL Lab
  • Having ICT Lab
  • Having computer
  • Having Integrated Science Lab
  • Getting textbooks
  • Getting uniforms

Academic Performance

  • Percentage of children at basic or below level and % of children at proficient level for Class 3, 5, 8 and 10 (as per NAS or SLAS)
  • Average score in each subject for Class 3, 5, 8 and 10 (as per NAS or SLAS)

Other

  • Primary & Upper Primary schools meeting head-teacher norms
  • Secondary Schools having principals/head master in position
  • Upper Primary schools meeting norms of subject-teacher as per RTE
  • Secondary schools who have teachers for all core subject
  • No. of CWSN that received facilities