All Decatur Schools Make AYP for Third Straight Year
Decatur Metro | July 21, 2011For the third straight year, all Decatur schools made Adequate Yearly Progress as defined under the Federal “No Child Left Behind Act”, while the percentage of schools that passed across the State of Georgia dipped 8 points from 71% to 63%. (You can view the AJC’s system-by-system data tables HERE if you’re interested in digging)
As explained by the AJC, the overall state decline is due in part to the increasing levels required to meet AYP each year under the Act until 2013-2014, when 100% of schools across the country are required to make AYP.
Most Decatur schools have been meeting AYP for in excess of 5 years. However, back in 2008, both DHS and Glennwood Academy failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress in Math. At that time CSD implemented a Math Improvement Plan and since then both schools have passed.
Good job student, parents, teachers, principals, and administrators. AYP happens because everybody works hard.
The bad news is that there is only one more week of vacation. Wait a second, maybe that’s good news for parents!
Hurray for CSD! Keep up the good work!
I’m not a big fan of the CRCT, especially since I’ve seen some of the old questions used for practice, and making AYP is only about getting students who are struggling over the low bar, not about getting more students over a middle or high bar. Nonetheless, given no option to substitute something better for NCLB, AYP-land, and the CRCT, it’s great that all CSD schools made AYP.
I don’t quite understand how the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT), which is what AYP for high schools is based on, relates to the End of Course tests which high school students take at the end of every year for certain core subjects. If I’m reading the State DOE info correctly, I think the GHSGT is only taken by 11th and 12th graders. If that’s true, then it seems like the performance of 9th and 10th graders isn’t figured into AYP. But maybe I just don’t understand yet.