"No Child Left Behind" Adequate Yearly Progress Results
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School-By-School Results and Additional Resources |
(July 18, 2003) The Wake County Public Schools today released the preliminary results for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" (NCLB). Of the 123 schools scored under the new legislation, 53 achieved the goal of 100 percent across multiple student group targets. WCPSS had 42 schools that missed the AYP designation by 3 subgroups or less and 28 schools missed their AYP target by 3 or more subgroups.
Although both the state's ABCs of public education and the NCLB's Adequate Yearly Progress are measured with the state's End of Grade tests, each standard looks at the data in different ways. The ABCs of public education measures academic growth of students over the course of a year. Adequate Yearly Progress measures subgroups of students against a fixed performance standard for all students.
In order to qualify as a subgroup, there must be at least 40 students identified under one of nine separate categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Multiracial, Economically Disadvantaged and Special Education. The school itself must also meet the target as a whole in order to meet the goal.
"This is a benchmarking year for this new measurement standard," said Bill McNeal, WCPSS superintendent. "The all or nothing approach of NCLB will challenge us to meet a different level of success, that we have consistently met under the state's ABCs of public education standard, but we will rise to the new standard," McNeal said.
No school in the Wake County Public School System faces sanctions for not meeting this first year's goal.
The Wake County Public School System is the second largest school system in North Carolina serving more than 104,000 students in 125 schools throughout the county. WCPSS is committed to ensuring academic success for all students in the system while maintaining fiscal responsibility and accountability. The system was formed in 1976 with the merger of the former City of Raleigh and Wake County school systems and, today, is the 27th largest public school system in the nation.