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Purple Sage was 1 of 42 RRISD Campuses that received a Gold Performance Acknowledgement from The Texas Education Agency.
The Gold Performance Acknowledgment recognizes districts and campuses for high academic performance on various indicators, such as commended performance on Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), college admissions tests and Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate (AP/IB) exams.
Performance standards were increased for two of the 15 indicators, making it more difficult to achieve the GPA status. The district had 42 of 45 campuses receive one or more Gold Performance Acknowledgements and, in spite of the increasing standards, RRISD schools earned 137 (or 40 percent) of 345 possible GPAs.
In 2001, the Texas Legislature enacted the Gold Performance Acknowledgment system to recognize campuses with high performance on indicators other than those that affect accountability ratings. Comparable Improvement (CI) indicators are campus-only acknowledgments that compare a school's performance to a group of 40 similar schools.
Elementary schools can earn acknowledgments for attendance and commended performance in reading/ELA, writing, math, and science and comparable improvement in reading and math. To earn GPAs for academic areas, a school must have 30 percent or more of its students in each student group scoring at or above the TAKS commended performance level.
Purple Sage received recognition for Attendance and Commended Science.