Federal AYP Results
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Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards are used to determine success under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.
Results by Year
History
President Bush signed the "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001 into law in January 2002. The law states that by the 2013-14 school year all students will be achieving at grade level.
The State of North Carolina has established starting points in reading and mathematics according to the specifics of the NCLB Legislation. These starting points are the same for every school and subgroup within a school. Incremental growth from these starting points is called "Adequate Yearly Progress" (AYP). There are nine categories of students that are potentially identified as subgroups. They are: 1) White 2) Black 3) Hispanic 4) Native American 5) Asian/Pacific Islander 6) Multiracial 7) Economically Disadvantaged 8) Limited English Proficient, and, 9) Students with Disabilities. If there are more than 40 students in a school in any of these groups, then that subgroup is measured under NCLB. In addition, each school must test at least 95 percent of all students in each subgroup in order to meet this new standard.
If even one subgroup does not meet the new measurement standard, the entire school is deemed not to have made Annual Yearly Progress, this is what is known as an "all or nothing" standard.
For high schools, the test that is used to measure AYP is the 10th grade North Carolina Comprehensive Tests of Reading and Mathematics. For elementary and middle schools the North Carolina End of Grade Test is used.
When looking at the attached information on each Wake County Public School System School, you will see the school name, the number of targets (subgroups) within that school and how many of the targets achieved AYP. A school must achieve 100 percent in order to be deemed to have made Annual Yearly Progress.
We have provided a link to a video clip of Wake County Public School System Senior Director for School Accountability Chuck Dulaney, who recently appeared on the WCPSS monthly television news magazine The School Connection who explains the differences between AYP and the ABCs of public education. This segment can be viewed by using QuickTime Video Player. (This program can be downloaded free of charge)
For additional information regarding this new measurement standard, we have provided a link to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's website and their information for the community.