Meeting the Learning Gains Criterion:

a. Improving by one or more FCAT achievement levels - e.g., from 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5;

b. Maintaining FCAT achievement levels 3, 4, or 5;

c. For non-retained students at achievement levels 1 or 2: showing more than one year's growth on FCAT developmental scale scores (DSS).