TAG Equity Dashboard

Description

Percentage of students by race/ethnicity, gender, twice exceptional status, and English learner status identified for gifted and talented services compared to their targeted representation using the gifted equity formula.

Dashboard Bar Graph Key

The graphs on this dashboard show how student groups are represented within the Talented and Gifted program compared to students in grades 2-12. To use a specific example, here is how you would interpret the graph for female students:

• 54.5% of Talented and Gifted students were Female in the chart below.
• 49.1% of students eligible for the Talented and Gifted program were Female in the chart below.

Gifted Equity Formula

Enrollment targets for student groups in our Talented and Gifted program are set annually using the gifted equity formula (80% of district enrollment). Currently, our dashboard only displays a comparison to district enrollment as a whole. The yearly targets in the table below are based on the gifted equity formula. For additional information about the gifted equity formula - Wright, B., Ford, D., & Young, J. (2017) Ignorance or Indifference? Seeking Excellence and Equity for Under-Represented Students of Color in Gifted Education. Global Education Review, 4(1). 45-60. (https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1137997).

Yearly Targets

Annual targets are determined based on enrollment rates of each student group using the gifted equity formula (80% of eligible students enrolled in the district).

Data Suppression Rules