While the Data Warehouse is a great resource, there is quite a bit of district- and school-level data available through the School and District Profiles area of the DESE Web site. (http://profiles.doe.mass.edu) No login or report running required!
I found this out the hard way a few months ago - after spending hours creating item analysis reports in the Data Warehouse, only to find out that the same information was available in Profiles for anyone to access directly!
Here's how: Use the link above and navigate to your district or school using the pop-up menus. Click the "Assessment" tab, and you will see a list of the available data reports listed on the left.
The "Item by Item Results" pages are VERY similar to R-301 and R-401 (Item Analysis) reports in the Data Warehouse...with no report running required! The URLs for these pages can easily be pasted into an email for distribution to staff (unlike the Data Warehouse, since there is no teacher level access at this time.)
Lots of other general data available there as well!
