Eleven WCPSS Schools Named Honor Schools of Excellence
September 6, 2007 –Eleven Wake County Public School System schools were recognized as Honor Schools of Excellence, according to the 2006-07 state ABCs of Public Education announced today.
The 11 schools include Brier Creek Elementary, Cedar Fork Elementary, Davis Drive Elementary, Green Hope Elementary, Green Hope High, Highcroft Elementary, Lufkin Road Middle, Oak Grove Elementary, Pleasant Union Elementary, Salem Elementary and Salem Middle. This includes one high school, two middle schools and eight elementary schools.
Under the ABCs of Public Education, a school earns recognition as an Honor School of Excellence when 90 percent of students are successful on state testing, the school’s state testing results show that it met or exceeded expected growth and the school met the federal No Child Left Behind standard of Annual Yearly Progress.
Cedar Fork Elementary, Davis Drive Elementary, Green Hope High, Highcroft Elementary, Lufkin Road Middle, Salem Elementary and Salem Middle made high growth; Brier Creek Elementary, Green Hope Elementary, Oak Grove Elementary, Pleasant Union Elementary made expected growth.
The WCPSS schools with the highest performance composite scores were Davis Drive Elementary with 96.3; Salem Middle with 96.1; Highcroft Elementary with 94.9; and Cedar Fork Elementary with 92.6.
Three WCPSS schools earned recognition as Schools of Excellence including Apex Middle, Davis Drive Middle and Morrisville Elementary. At these three schools, 90 percent of students are successful on state testing and the school’s state testing results show that it met or exceeded expected growth. The schools did not meet the federal No Child Left Behind standard of Annual Yearly Progress. Apex Middle and Davis Drive Middle made high growth; Morrisville Elementary made expected growth.
Schools of Distinction
58 WCPSS schools were honored as Schools of Distinction. The schools had more than 80 percent of students scoring proficient on state assessments and met growth standards. The Schools of Distinction include Adams Elementary, Apex Elementary, Apex High, Ballentine Elementary, Baucom Elementary, Brassfield Elementary, Briarcliff Elementary, Carpenter Elementary, Cary High, Centennial Campus Middle, Combs Elementary, Daniels Middle, Dillard Drive Elementary, Dillard Drive Middle, Durant Road Middle, Farmington Woods Elementary, Heritage Elementary, Hilburn Drive Elementary, Heritage Middle, Holly Springs Elementary, Hunter Elementary, Holly Grove Elementary, Holly Ridge Elementary, Holly Ridge Middle, Jones Dairy Elementary, Lacy Elementary, Lead Mine Elementary, Leesville Road Elementary, Leesville Road Middle, Leesville Road High, Lincoln Heights Elementary, Ligon Middle, Lynn Road Elementary, Martin Middle, Middle Creek Elementary, North Ridge Elementary, Northwoods Elementary, Olive Chapel Elementary, Olds Elementary, Partnership Elementary, Panther Creek High, Penny Road Elementary, Reedy Creek Elementary, Rolesville Elementary, Root Elementary, Turner Creek Elementary, Wake Early College of Health and Science, Wake Forest Elementary, Wakefield Elementary, Wakefield Middle, Washington Elementary, Weatherstone Elementary, West Cary Middle, West Lake Elementary, West Lake Middle, Wildwood Forest Elementary, Willow Springs Elementary and Yates Mill Elementary. This includes five high schools, 12 middle schools and 41 elementary schools.
Schools of Progress
50 WCPSS schools were recognized as Schools of Progress. The state ABCs of Public Education recognizes schools that have more than 60 percent of students successful on state testing and meet growth standards as Schools of Progress. Schools recognized as Schools of Progress include Athens Drive High, Aversboro Elementary, Baileywick Road Elementary, Broughton High, Carnage Middle, Carroll Middle, Carver Elementary, Cary Elementary, Creech Road Elementary, Douglas Elementary, Durant Road Elementary, East Garner Middle, Reedy Creek Middle, East Wake Middle, Enloe High, Forestville Road Elementary, Fox Road Elementary, Fuquay-Varina Elementary, Fuquay-Varina Middle, Fuquay-Varina High, Garner High, Green Elementary, Hodge Road Elementary, Harris Creek Elementary, Jeffreys Grove Elementary, Holly Springs High, Joyner Elementary, Kingswood Elementary, Knightdale Elementary, Lockhart Elementary, Middle Creek High, Millbrook Elementary, Millbrook High, Moore Square Middle, North Garner Middle, Poe Elementary, Powell Elementary, Sanderson High, Stough Elementary, Swift Creek Elementary, Vance Elementary, Vandora Springs Elementary, Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle, Wake Forest-Rolesville High, Wakefield High, Wakelon Elementary, Wendell Elementary, Wiley Elementary, York Elementary and Zebulon Middle. This includes 11 high schools, 10 middle schools and 29 elementary schools.
Four schools were recognized as Priority Schools, schools that have more than 50 percent of students successful on state testing. Priority Schools include Brentwood Elementary, East Wake High, Knightdale High and the East Wake School of Integrated Technology.
On the bubble
Several WCPSS schools were just on the bubble of making it to the next level. Leesville Road Elementary had a performance composite of 89.9. One-tenth of a point would have pushed it to an Honor School of Excellence. Turner Creek Elementary had an 89.5. Five-tenths of a point would have pushed it to an Honor School of Excellence. Baucom Elementary had a performance composite of 89.6. Four-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Excellence. West Lake Middle had a performance composite of 89.4. Six-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Excellence. Lockhart Elementary had a 79.8. Two-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Distinction. Cary Elementary had a 79.7. Three-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Distinction. Vandora Springs Elementary had a 79.3. Seven-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Distinction. Brentwood Elementary had a 59.8. Two-tenths of a point would have pushed it to a School of Progress.
Meeting Growth Standards
WCPSS had 47 schools achieve high growth. High schools that achieved high growth include Broughton, Fuquay-Varina, Green Hope, Leesville Road, Panther Creek, Sanderson and the Wake Early College of Health and Sciences. Middle schools that achieved high growth include Apex, Centennial Campus, Davis Drive, Durant Road, Reedy Creek, Heritage, Ligon, Lufkin Road, Martin, Salem, Wakefield, West Cary and West Lake. Elementary schools that achieved high growth include Adams, Baucom, Brassfield, Carpenter, Carver, Cary, Cedar Fork, Combs, Davis Drive, Forestville Road, Highcroft, Hunter, Lacy, Lynn Road, Millbrook, North Ridge, Olive Chapel, Penny Road, Powell, Root, Salem, Stough, Vandora Springs, Weatherstone, Willow Springs, Yates Mill and York.
Another 78 WCPSS schools met expected growth.
21 WCPSS schools did not meet growth standards and as a result, did not qualify for ABCs of Public Education recognition. These schools included Barwell Road Elementary, Brooks Elementary, Bugg Elementary, Conn Elementary, East Millbrook Middle, Fuller Elementary, Forest Pines Elementary, Rand Road Elementary, River Bend Elementary, Smith Elementary, Southeast Raleigh High, Timber Drive Elementary, Underwood Elementary, West Millbrook Middle, Wilburn Elementary, Zebulon Elementary and East Wake School of Health Sciences.
WCPSS had no schools designated by the state as low performing schools.
The ABCs of Public Education
The ABCs of Public Education is the state accountability program begun in 1996-97 and designed to improve student achievement, reward excellence, and provide assistance to schools that need extra help.
The ABCs program provides incentive awards to teachers, principals and other certified school-based staff, in addition to teacher assistants. In all schools that attain the High Growth standard, certified staff members each receive up to $1,500 incentive awards and teacher assistants receive up to $500. In schools attaining Expected Growth, certified staff members each receive up to $750 and teacher assistants receive up to $375. This year, funds for incentive awards will be released to local school districts following the November release of the K-8 ABCs accountability results with the goal of districts being able to provide the incentive awards in December to all employees who earn them.
No Child Left Behind requires an additional measure of school quality called Adequate Yearly Progress. AYP focuses on subgroups of students with a goal of closing achievement gaps.
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