In the District Composite Report for Madison Parish, up to six years of data is presented. Each year, this report is updated by adding the most current year's data and deleting the data that are more than six years old. Incorporating longitudinal data in the District Composite Report enables policy makers to anticipate changes in educational outcomes, not just describe them (Smith, 1988). However, longitudinal reporting does complicate the presentation of data. To assist users in interpreting data, tables in the District Composite Report have been formatted as follows: (1) Cross-sectional data (i.e., for any given year) are presented vertically in columns. School-to-school comparisons can be made within any given year by scanning up and down columns; (2) Longitudinal data are presented horizontally in rows. An individual school?s progress on any single indicator can be charted over time by scanning left-to-right across columns; and (3) Schools are listed in sequential order, based on school site code and school category.