2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 389 - Examinations, Courses, Standards and Diplomas
NRS 389.017 - Reporting of results of examinations; reconciliation of number of pupils taking examinations.

1. The State Board shall adopt regulations that require the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Department, in the form and manner prescribed by the Superintendent, the results of the high school proficiency examination administered pursuant to NRS 389.015 to pupils enrolled in the high schools of the district and in charter schools. The State Board shall not include in the regulations any provision which would violate the confidentiality of the test scores of any individual pupil.

2. The results of the high school proficiency examination must be reported for each school, including, without limitation, each charter school, school district and this State, as follows:

(a) The average score, as defined by the Department, of pupils who took the high school proficiency examination under regular testing conditions; and

(b) The average score, as defined by the Department, of pupils who took the high school proficiency examination with modifications or accommodations, if such reporting does not violate the confidentiality of the test scores of any individual pupil.

3. Not later than 10 days after the Department receives the results of the high school proficiency examination, the Department shall transmit a copy of the results of the high school proficiency examination administered pursuant to NRS 389.015 to the Legislative Bureau of Educational Accountability and Program Evaluation in a manner that does not violate the confidentiality of the test scores of any individual pupil.

4. On or before July 1 of each year, the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, shall report to the Department the following information for the high school proficiency examination administered in the high schools in the school district or charter school:

(a) The grade level or levels of pupils to whom the examination was administered;

(b) The costs incurred by the school district or charter school in administering the examination; and

(c) The purpose, if any, for which the results of the high school proficiency examination are used by the school district or charter school.

On or before September 1 of each year, the Department shall transmit to the Budget Division of the Department of Administration and the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau the information submitted to the Department pursuant to this subsection.

5. The superintendent of schools of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, shall certify that the number of pupils who took the high school proficiency examination required pursuant to NRS 389.015 is equal to the number of pupils who are enrolled in each school in the school district or in the charter school who are required to take the high school proficiency examination.

6. In addition to the information required by subsection 4, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall:

(a) Report the number of pupils who were absent from school on the day that the high school proficiency examination was administered; and

(b) Reconcile the number of pupils who were required to take the high school proficiency examination with the number of pupils who were absent from school on the day that the examination was administered.

(Added to NRS by 1979, 312; A 1987, 616; 1993, 457; 1997, 1774, 1869, 2770; 1999, 476, 481, 1432, 2668; 2001, 1489, 3158; 2003, 1141; 2003, 19th Special Session, 62; 2011, 510, 3137)