About the AEC Data

One of the primary purposes of the A-GAME project is to help authorizers, and the alternative education campuses (AECs) they oversee, to develop alternative accountability measures, metrics, and frameworks to capture school quality. One area of shared difficulty among authorizers and AECs is establishing rigorous but attainable performance targets. This site aims to provide authorizers with some “typical” results for students attending AECs. The data provided here are collected from state department of educational websites, as well as the National Center for Education Statistics website. For the first time, AECs are isolated from general education schools and their results are aggregated to provide a summary of typical (or average) alternative school performance. The results can be used to help charter authorizers and AECs set relevant performance standards for their alternative schools across the country.

The data reported on this site will be updated and additional measures will be released on a regular basis. In addition, we anticipate adding new features for reviewing the data based on different student or school characteristics in the near future.