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Revised AYP report for Coweta County Schools brings system,
schools, to 100%
In a report released by the Georgia State Department of
Education on Thursday, all 27 Coweta County Schools met the
requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
A revised 2008-09 School Scorecard of Adequate Yearly Progress
was issued on October 1 by the Georgia Department of Education.
The revised report included the performance of 3rd, 5th and 8th
grade students who retook some sections of the state Criterion
Referenced Competency Test in May.
In the revised report, All Coweta County schools and the Coweta
County School System as a whole made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
in 2008-09.
In the initial AYP report issued in July, two middle schools did
not make AYP because of CRCT Math test scores. In the October 1
revised report, the 2008-09 status of Lee Middle School and
Evans Middle School was changed to “meeting AYP,” which resulted
in all Coweta schools meeting all standards in the federal act.
The change also officially removes Evans Middle School from the
list of ‘Needs Improvement’ schools because the school has met
all AYP goals in student attendance and test scores in all
subgroups for the last two years.
“This is exceptional,” said Superintendent Blake Bass. “All of
our schools, and our school system as a whole, exceeded every
standard set out by No Child Left Behind.”
Bass noted that Coweta County schools have done well by the
standards of No Child Left Behind since the accountability
standards began in 2002. Each year, only a few of Coweta’s 27
applicable schools don’t meet AYP, generally because of
performance in smaller “subgroupings” of students examined by
the standards.
Bass noted that 93 percent of Coweta County’s schools made AYP
during the 2007-08 school year, compared to 79 percent in the
state of Georgia. “However, this year is the first time that all
of our schools and all subgroups exceeded every one of the
academic and attendance goals in the act,” he said.
“Along with last month’s report of Coweta’s highest SAT scores
ever, today’s AYP report speaks very well about the academic
integrity of our school system,” said Bass. “Our high schools’
SAT scores were well above the national average, and now 100
percent of our schools have met national AYP standards under No
Child Left Behind. That is a reflection of exceptional work by
our students and teachers.”
Only 36% of public school systems in the state of Georgia had
both 100 percent of schools as well as the school system as a
whole meet AYP during 2008-09.
The AYP accountability measures track the academic progress of
schools every year by monitoring average student attendance (for
elementary and middle schools) or high school graduation rate
(for high schools), and student academic performance on state
standardized tests given during the year. In Georgia, the Math,
Reading and English/Language Arts portions of the Georgia
Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT) or the Georgia High
School Graduation Test (GHSGT) are used.
Schools are judged by the percentage of students who meet or
exceed the standards of those tests during the school year. The
performance of students is also tracked by subgroups including
Students with Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged Students,
English Language Learners, and ethnic subgroups.
Schools make Adequate Yearly Progress if a high percentage of
students meet yearly standards, and if all subgroups within the
school’s population also meet the standards. If one or more
subgroups within the school do not meet standards, then the
whole school is deemed to have not made Adequate Yearly
Progress.
More information about the Georgia No Child Left Behind annual
report can be found on the Georgia Department of Education’s
website at www.gadoe.org. |
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