What is AYP?
AYP stands for Adequate
Yearly Progress and it is a measure used by the state of Georgia
to determine which schools are making progress from year to
year. Although all states use AYP as part of the federal No
Child Left Behind Act, each state decides how to calculate
whether a school is making adequate progress. For our school,
AYP is determined by looking at academic performance, test
participation, and daily student attendance. Currently, the
critical subject areas for determining AYP are Reading, English
Language Arts, and Math.
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To make AYP, each school and district must meet the following
criteria:
What determines
whether we make AYP?
What
happens when a school does not make AYP?
Under No Child
Left Behind, there is no consequence the first year that a
school does not meet AYP. While all Coweta County Schools write
and review annual school improvement plans, schools that do not
make AYP pay close attention to areas of weakness regarding AYP.
Schools that do not meet AYP criteria in the same subject for
two or more consecutive years are placed in Needs Improvement
(NI) status with escalating consequences for each successive
year of not meeting AYP criteria. Same subject is defined by the
state as two years of not meeting Reading and English/Language
Arts criteria (based on participation or academic performance)
or two years of not meeting Mathematics criteria (based on
participation or academic performance) or two years of not
meeting second indicator criteria. The second indicator for our
school is student attendance.
According to the state, a Needs Improvement school is simply a
school that has been identified as needing to improve in
specific areas. While the state stresses that Needs Improvement
schools are NOT failing schools, stakeholders often interpret NI
status as such. Schools that do not make AYP for two or more
years in the same subject are in Needs Improvement status and
are required to begin implementing school-level consequences
including:
How does a school move out of Needs Improvement (NI) status?
Just
as it takes two consecutive years of not making AYP to be
identified as Needs Improvement under No Child Left Behind, it
takes two consecutive years of making AYP for a school to move
out of Needs Improvement status. If an NI school makes AYP for
one year, it does not move out of NI status until the second
consecutive year. For Evans, this means that we must make AYP
during this testing year (April 2008) as well as next testing
year (April 2009) before we move out of Needs Improvement
status. If we make AYP one year and fail to make AYP the second
consecutive year, we continue to remain in Needs Improvement
status and must continue implementing No Child Left Behind?s
school improvement consequences.
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Want to know
even more?
Visit
the Georgia Department of Education online at
www.gadoe.org for more information
about AYP including school and district AYP reports.
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