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Local systems meet AYP goals
Published August 4, 2009
Both the Scottsboro City and Jackson County school systems met their adequate yearly progress goals for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Three county schools did not reach their goals, however, because of lower graduation rates.
The Alabama State Department of Education released the AYP reports Monday morning, showing which schools and school systems met their goals from the previous school year.
According to the ALSDE, the AYP status are “based on achievement on assessments of the state’s academic content standards, participation rates on these assessments and meeting the Additional Academic Indicators based on attendance rates for elementary and middle schools and graduation rates for high schools.”
The status is also determined through both achievement and participation on the Alabama Reading and Mathematics test, the Alabama Alternate Assessment and the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.
“Overall, I was very excited where we came out,” said Ken Harding, superintendent of Jackson County Schools.
The county system did meet its AYP goals overall, but did not meet its proficiency goal for special education in reading or mathematics for grades three through five.
Last year, the system did not meet its goal in the same grade span for mathematics in special education.
Harding said three county schools—Section High, Pisgah High and Skyline High—were in school improvement last year and were moved to delay because of their improved graduation rates. Section's graduation percentage was 89 percent, Pisgah's 89 percent and Skyline's 84 percent. The goal for the 2008-2009 year was 90 percent.
Harding said he expects the schools to keep improving to come off the delay status next year.
North Sand Mountain School and Paint Rock Valley High did not make AYP because of their respective 79 and 78 percent graduation rates, and Woodville High did not meet goal, Harding said, because it had the same graduation rate percentage (79 percent) as the previous year.
Harding reiterated that the system did well overall, and said people in the system are doing a good job and are out working to make the system's goals.
"We don't want to rest on our laurels..." he said, adding that the system will continue to work to meet its goals.
Each of Scottsboro City's six schools, as well as the total system, made their annual goals this year.
"We are absolutely thrilled that we made AYP," said Judy Berry, superintendent of Scottsboro City Schools. "I want to thank the central office staff, principals, teachers, students and parents who brought studetns to school the day we had the tests."
Berry said each time students do well on the tests, the scores have to continue to improve.
"We're just always thrilled and relieved to see scores go up," she said.
Scottsboro High School was the only school to not meets its goals last year because of its 85 percent graduation rate. The system met AYP overall last year, but was cited for the high school's lower graduation rate.
The AYP measurements are part of the No Child Left Behind initiative, 2002 federal legislation, based on the idea that creating measurable goals and setting high standards can improve education. According to the ALSDE, the national target set by the NCLB law is all students will be proficient in both reading and mathematics by 2014.
Across Alabama, 1,190 schools (86.48 percent) made AYP, while 186 did not.
More than 97 percent of school systems statewide (129 total) made AYP and three systems did not.
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