Here's an index you want. Under 2014–15 School Program Improvement Status click on 2014–15 School Status - Data File. Then, if on a PC, CTFL-F to search in-page for your school's name.
I'm not versed on all the levels of sanctions under No Child Left Behind. My experience is with Program Improvement. The criteria has changed each year because schools are required to make continual progress on test scores every year, so failing happens because 'you didn't keep getting better.' It's not related to accreditation.
Imagine a group of people (schools) being in a locked room with water flooding in. Each person piles his own collection of furniture and begins climbing. "Failing" occurs when you've run out of furniture, can't get higher, and the water reaches your head. It is every school's eventual fate.
(Well, it would be, but California schools are frozen in Program Improvement now, so it's like the room is filled two-thirds with water and the people are just waiting in limbo clutching their furniture towers.)
My school was named a Distinguished School under stand standards and the next year went into Program Improvement under No Child Left Behind despite the test scores essentially being the same between the two years.
Do you think the influx of affluence into charter schools is additionally caused by lack of information given to lower-resource families, or is it more likely due to intentional discrimination determined by the students academic performance, or (most likely) some kind of mix?
In regard to transportation costs being paid for, it's not a deal that poor families can just jump upon. For example, it assumes the family has reliable car transportation. The home district will pay gas money, not car repairs, or buying a car in the first place. Then there's the huge hassle of getting your kid to and from school on your own.
Poor working families tend to have less flexibility in getting time off for such things, and they can't afford on-site after-care. We're talking kids who receive free breakfast and lunch under the federal school lunch program due to family income. Affluent families are also more likely to have a stay-at-home parent around to drive their kids.
In other words, poor families are much more likely to depend upon bus service, and they usually only get that in their home district.
Also, after-care services may be different. My poor district offers childcare starting at 7 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m., with all students starting before-school care at a middle school, then bussed to their elementary schools. The childcare is nothing more than babysitting while kids play on a playground.
Whereas, the richest charter school in my district doesn't offer before-school care, and after-care lasts only 1 hour. The school publishes a printed catalog of after-school programs... chess, robotics, multiple languages, multiple musical instrument instruction, etc. that parents pay a lot to have. Just the fact they design and publish a printed guide blows my mind. Their idea of a school fundraiser is to send home a solicitation letter and watch as $50,000 rolls in. Meanwhile, my school busts it butt to raise $10,000.
if charter schools get to hand-pick their students
Well... it's not that clean. Charters must accept students who live within their district. The selection process is for all of the empty seats they fill with out-of-district transfers. If those seats are filled by lottery, who observes the selection process to be sure it's fair? If the seats are filled on a first-come first-served basis, who checks it's really first-comers who get enrolled?
what factors do you think are causing charters to fail at the same proportion as public schools?
Charters fail because the chief difference between charter and non-charter is a different funding mechanism, a site-specific board that allocates funding, and being founded without teacher unions. Charters don't necessarily offer different instruction. Charter teachers still teach state curriculum, and their students still take the same standardized tests.
Beyond that, charters fail at the same rate because, as described by the rising water example, all schools will eventually fail by design. This is the larger war on public education... undermining public confidence in public education in order to privatize it. How the war is waged is different in every day, with different results, but think tanks and corporations that stand to profit have their hand involved everywhere.