Below, you’ll find the most recently published executive summary of the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) is intended to provide parents and community members with a quick snapshot of information related to individual public schools.
Contact information, facilities, curriculum, instructional materials and select teacher data are reported within the SARC for the listed school year. For additional information about the school, parents and community members should review the entire SARC or contact the school administrator.
River Oak Charter School offers kindergarten through eighth grade, serving students in the greater Ukiah Community. Our curriculum is aligned with the California State Standards and we strive to create self-motivated, competent lifelong learners.
Description of the requirements and information contained in the School Accountability Report Card (SARC).
Since November 1988, state law has required all public schools receiving state funding to prepare and distribute a SARC. A similar requirement is also contained in the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act . The purpose of the report card is to provide parents and the community with important information about each public school. A SARC can be an effective way for a school to report on its progress in achieving goals. The public may also use a SARC to evaluate and compare schools on a variety of indicators.
Although there is great variation in the design of school report cards, they generally begin with a profile that provides background information about the school and its students. The profile usually summarizes the school’s mission, goals, and accomplishments. State law requires that the SARC contain all of the following:
In addition, NCLB requires that SARCs contain reports concerning the “adequate yearly progress” of students in achieving state academic achievement standards; Title 1 Program Improvement; graduation rates at the secondary level; and, starting with the SARCs to be published in 2004-05, the extent to which “highly qualified” teachers are teaching core academic subjects.
School report cards must be updated annually.
State law generally encourages schools to make a concerted effort to notify parents of the purpose of the report cards and to ensure that all parents receive a copy of the report card for the school their child attends. Specifically, schools are required to notify all parents about the availability of the SARC and to provide parents with instructions about how the SARC can be obtained both through the Internet (if feasible) and on paper (by request). If a sufficient number of a school’s enrolled students speak a single primary language other than English, state law requires that the SARC be made available to parents in the appropriate primary language.