The Academic Accountability Unit of the California Department of Education (CDE) is once again teaming up with the Ed-Data Partnership to provide a free, easy-to-use tool to assist school and district SARC coordinators in creating their School Accountability Report Cards (SARC).
These templates are:
Filled in with data collected by the CDE for each school State-board approved Available in English and 5 other languages Easy to use & nicely formatted Improved in response to feedback from last year Completely free!
Complete your SARC in 3 easy steps:
1. Download and save your school's template 2. Confirm that the CDE-provided data is accurate and add your local data where indicated3. Save and post your School Accountability Report Card*
* If you use a different template for your SARCs, this tool still provides free and easy “one-stop” access to all the CDE's SARC data for a school.
We've enhanced the site with more robust help options, including self-paced trainings to guide you through the tool and instructions for Mac users. We also improved the readability and printability of the templates in response to feedback from last year.
This new service is part of Ed-Data's ongoing mission to help schools and local education agencies in their use and communication of data. The CDE, the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, and EdSource are all founding partners of the publicly funded Ed-Data site, which has presented financial, demographic, and performance data on California's public schools for more than a decade.
The goals of the project are to both reduce the burden on school staff and help assure the quality and consistency of the data.
The SARC, which is required by state law, contains a combination of data collected at the state and local levels. Its purpose is to provide parents and the community information about each public school, enable schools to report progress in achieving goals, and help the public evaluate and compare schools on a variety of indicators.
The SARC templates on Ed-Data are a free option local schools can use to help them prepare their SARCs. After downloading the pre-populated templates, school officials will complete them with local data, and then publish them both in print and online. The CDE will continue to make full database files available to schools and organizations that prepare their SARCs using other services.
The deadline for publishing SARCs is February 1, 2013.
Click here to download this information as a 1-page PDF.
Visit our SARC Help page for instructions on how to use the template, self-guided tours through the tool, and links to more resources and information.
SARC Coordinators: Sign up now for updates and login information
If you will be preparing the SARC for your school and are not already on the CDE's SARC email list, please contact the SARC team at 916-322-3245 or by e-mail at sarc@cde.ca.gov for the password and instructions on how to log-in.
Please also sign up for the CDE's SARC email list for important updates.
Signing up is easy: Just send a blank email to: subscribe-sarc@mlist.cde.ca.gov. You will receive an email confirmation.
For more information, go to http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/sa/accntrprtcrdlstsrv.asp.
For More Information
For more information about School Accountability Report Cards, please see the CDE's SARC web page or contact the CDE's SARC team at 916-322-3245 or by e-mail at
sarc@cde.ca.gov.
If you have difficulty accessing the SARC template tool on Ed-Data or want to offer suggestions for improvement, please contact the Ed-Data team via
this form.