WCPSS Releases AYP Results
July 21, 2011 - Twenty-two Wake County public schools met the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standard for 2010-11, according to the preliminary results for Adequate Yearly Progress released today by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. These results reflect the higher NCLB performance standards for 2010-11 making it more challenging for schools to achieve AYP. Overall, the system met 82 percent of its total AYP targets (3,144 out of 3,813).
"I congratulate the principals, teachers and school communities at our schools that achieved AYP," said Superintendent Tony Tata. "No Child Left Behind holds us accountable for every student and our goal is that all students are successful. We will add the data from this report to the achievement audit received last month from the Harvard Center for Education Policy Research to help us move faster and smarter to increase achievement for all of our students. We know we have work to do."
Analyses of the state's End-of-Grade and End-of-Course tests administered to Wake County public school students are used to measure student subgroups as AYP targets against a fixed performance standard. Schools must meet every target to make AYP.
In order to qualify as a subgroup and AYP target, there must be at least 40 students in the school identified under one of nine separate categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Multiracial, Limited English Proficiency, Economically Disadvantaged and Students with Disabilities. The school itself must also meet the target as a whole in order to meet the goal, and it must test at least 95 percent of its students in each of the defined subgroups.
| WCPSS Schools Making AYP in 2010-11 by Grade Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Total Number of Schools Tested |
Made AYP |
Missed AYP by One or Two Targets |
|
| Elementary | 103 |
18 |
28 |
| Middle | 32 |
1 |
6 |
| High | 24 |
3 |
3 |
| Alternative | 4 |
0 |
2 |
| Total | 163 |
22 |
39 |
WCPSS Schools
At the elementary school level, 18 of 103 schools met all reported targets. The schools are Alston Ridge, Briarcliff, Carver, Cedar Fork, Davis Drive, Fuquay-Varina, Highcroft, Hilburn Drive, Lake Myra, Lead Mine, Olds, Olive Chapel, Rand Road, Reedy Creek, Wakelon, Wildwood Forest, Yates Mill and Zebulon. Another 28 schools missed only one or two targets.
At the middle school level, one of 32 schools met all AYP targets. The school was Wakefield. Another six schools missed only one or two targets.
At the high school level, three of 24 schools met all AYP targets. The schools are the East Wake School of Health Science, East Wake School of Engineering Systems and Wake Early College of Health and Sciences. Another three schools missed only one or two targets.
You can find school-by-school AYP results at www.wcpss.net/test-scores/ayp/2011/. For additional information, visit the NC Department of Public Instruction at www.ncpublicschools.org/nclb.