Strive HI Performance System

Strive HI is HIDOE’s school accountability and improvement system designed to meet the needs of students, educators and schools. It aligns and connects our key state education policies and initiatives to position students and educators for success and uses data to measure progress and target resources. The annual report is a snapshot of performance on key indicators of student success. This report shows progress on federally required indicators under the Every Student Succeeds Act; in addition to state-adopted measures focused on student equity, achievement and success.

Visualization Sites

​Dynamically view data from the Strive HI System:

• ARCH ADC: The Accountability Data Center features school-level results in test scores and participation, and graduation and retention data. 

What is the difference between Strive HI and No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?

The Strive HI Performance System replaces many of NCLB’s most outdated and ineffective requirements with a system better designed to meet the needs of Hawai‘i’s students, educators and schools.

Who designed the system?

What is the system’s focus?

How is school performance measured?

Which students are schools held accountable for?

How are schools supported for improvement?

What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a reauthorization of the federal education law known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). It replaces the prior reauthorization known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

ESSA was signed into law on Dec. 10, 2015, and was implemented in the 2017-18 school year, granting more flexibility to states than NCLB to set education priorities. Under ESSA, states must set rigorous academic standards, assess students in core subjects, report progress data, set teacher qualifications, and report per-pupil expenditures.

For information on navigating the LEI Public ESSA dashboard, please watch the following video:

How is Growth Measured?

Growth modeling is used in the state’s federally approved school accountability system.​​​​​​​ Growth is best understood as a comparison between academic peers in the same grade with similar state assessment score histories for a given content area. So, for a student who has had low Hawai‘i State Assessment scores for the last few years, his or her growth is compared to students who have scored similarly, as measured by the students’ scaled scores.

To use a common metaphor to describe modeling, if your retirement portfolio grew by 10 points over one year:

• That would be something to be happy about if the market only went up 5 points in that time, or
• Something to be disappointed with if the rest of the market went up by 20 points in that time.

Each year, our growth model analyzes all available assessment data to determine how each student’s new test results compare with his/her academic peers. Regardless of school or class size, individual growth can be calculated for all students who have two consecutive assessment scores. 

What is the Median Student Growth Percentile?

These percentiles are summary measures that aggregate individual student growth percentiles. Medians are simply the middle student’s score or the average of the middle two students’ scores when all the scores in a group are sorted from least to greatest.

For example, in a school with a median student growth percentile of 60, half of the students had individual student growth percentiles greater than 60 and half of the students had individual student growth percentiles less than 60.

For an individual student, a student growth percentile of 60 signifies that the student scored higher than 60 percent of other students throughout the state with similar prior state assessment performance.

Growth percentiles are used to track school performance relative to peers.