The Impact of School Organization and School Performance.

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act [1], Common Core State Standards [2], and U.S. Department of Education's [3] Race to the Top reforms have all placed accountability on compulsory education in the U.S.A. However, none of these reforms seems to help school leaders, principals, teachers, and students improve academic performance. Many elementary schools in the southeast of the U.S. had not made adequate gains in school performance as measured by the College and Career Readiness Index (CCRPI) score [4]. Some literatures suggest that there is a positive correlation between school organization and school performance; however, there is little consensus on which organizational characteristics promote school performance [5]. This study used School Culture Survey [6] to measure school organization in high (8 schools) and low (8 schools) performing elementary schools in the southeast of the U.S. to determine whether there is a correlation between the school organization and the school performance. The results of the Pearson correlation analyzes suggested that there was a statistically significant positive correlation between the school organization measured by the School Culture Survey and the school performance in elementary schools in the southeast of the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]