As a condition of receiving federal funds under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), all states are required to define a process for identifying groups of students, schools, districts and the State as being in need of improvement. This requirement is called adequate yearly progress or AYP. It is an annual status check of identified data elements to determine whether or not buildings and districts are meeting State AYP progress goals.
What are the state AYP goals?
The chart below shows the state goals in math and reading for each of the past 5 years. Notice that 2013-14 goals were that 100% of students would be proficient in both math and reading.
Bancroft-Rosalie School met AYP for 2012-13 in both Math and Reading in the elementary and Middle School, and high school.
Unfortunately, we did not have 100% of our students scoring proficient in reading or math in 2013-14. I would be surprised if any school met the 100% goal.
What happens to schools and districts that do not “make” AYP?
The NCLB consequences for not making AYP targets apply only to schools and districts that have a Title I program. The federal law prescribes graduated sanctions for Title I schools beginning with the second consecutive year of not making AYP.
Title I schools must provide students with the option to transfer to another school in their district in the first year of “school improvement”. In the second year, supplemental educational services must be provided in addition to the option to transfer. Additional sanctions apply the longer a Title I school does not make adequate yearly progress.
