MSCS Compass Updates and New Releases
Student Group Filters have been updated. These can be found in every report with Group Type and Group filters (Attendance, Enrollment, Discipline, Assessment, Grades, Tutoring, High School Progress, District 360, RTI, and Summer Learning Academy).
- Overage for Grade is now split into a filter for students' overage because of their age, overage because of a previous retention, and overage for any reason.
- Discipline Tier no longer includes truancy incidents in how it’s defined.
- Attendance Tier is a new filter based on the number of District absences a student has.
| Updated Filters/Tiers | Definition | ||
| Overage for Grade | OAG is now broken up into 3 categories –
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| Attendance Tier |
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Report Updates:
- The Show Up for Greatness report is being updated with new business rules. A student’s category is based on their cumulative attendance rate for the year.
- Historical data from last year is available. Attendance categories in the historical data will adhere to the attendance rate cuts from that year. New data will populate the day after each 20-day period ends.
- Everyone with MSCS Compass access, including School Administrators, can see this report. See the user guide for more information.
| Previous Year: 2024-2025 | Current Year: 2025-2026 | ||||
| Gold | 95.1% to 100.0% | 96% to 100% (95.5% to 100.0%) | ||||
| Silver | 90.1% to 95.0% | 91% to 95% (90.5% to 95.4%) | ||||
| Bronze | 90.0% or less | 90% or less (90.4% or less) |
- The Attendance Reconciliation Report has been updated to focus primarily on PC (Present by Calculation) and AC (Absent by Calculation) codes. With this report, school staff can see which students are still showing these codes to facilitate cleaning up in PowerSchool. See the user guide for more information.
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Upcoming Training Sessions:
Check out our Training Calendar for all upcoming District Trainings.
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- This week (9/30 and 10/2), we are covering the Student Attendance: Show Up for Greatness and Attendance Reconciliation Reports.
- For more information on Virtual Office Hours, check out this flyer! Sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 PM on Microsoft Teams.
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Unofficial Achievement AMOs
A file with 2024-2025 TCAP scores and unofficial 2025-2026 Achievement AMOs can be found on SharePoint here. These AMOs are unofficial because the state does not calculate AMOs for individual grades and subjects. Federal accountability AMOs are based on ELA and math results combined across all grade levels, and we do not have official 2025-2026 AMOs yet. However, we publish these unofficial AMOs to help schools with goal setting for individual grades and subjects.
Performance Matters Formative Assessment Window
The Performance Matters Formative Assessment window begins Monday, September 29, and ends Friday, October 10. The middle and high school tests will be given online and will become available on Monday. The elementary tests will be taken on paper, and Building Testing Coordinators have access to these tests through the SharePoint Assessment restricted folder. A practice test named “MSCS Benchmark Sample Test” is available in Performance Matters and can be used by school administrators, teachers, and students to become more familiar with the testing process.
ACT and PreACT
The fall ACT testing window for 12th graders opens September 30. There are multiple ACT testing dates available in October; November 7 is the final date for this year’s ACT testing window. All ACT testing is online, and schools may choose the date or dates within the window that they want to test. Students in grades 8, 9, and 10 will take the PreACT online; the PreACT window is October 1-31. Schools may choose the date or dates they will administer the PreACT within the designated window.
Although on weekend testing dates students may opt out of the science portion of the ACT, the state’s school day ACT tests will still include science. Participation in this school day testing opportunity will be especially important this year. The TDOE Accountability Department has indicated that only ACT tests including science will count toward ACT accountability measures such a participation rate and percent of students scoring 21 or above. However, ACT tests without science will still meet the graduation requirement.