Majority of Northside schools make AYP for 2009-2010

The Virginia Department of Education released the 2009-2010 AYP numbers this morning. Adequate yearly progress is a state’s measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards. Adequate yearly progress is the minimum level of improvement that states, school districts, and schools must achieve each year, according to No Child Left Behind. Here’s how the schools […]

August 13, 2009; 10:28 AM • by Valerie Catrow

The Virginia Department of Education released the 2009-2010 AYP numbers this morning. Adequate yearly progress is a state’s measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards. Adequate yearly progress is the minimum level of improvement that states, school districts, and schools must achieve each year, according to No Child Left Behind.

Here’s how the schools in the Northside did…

Elementary Schools

• Holton: Made AYP
• Ginter Park: Made AYP
• Sheppard: Made AYP
• Stuart: Made AYP

Middle School

• Henderson: Did not make AYP

High School

• John Marshall: Made AYP

As John Murden over at Church Hill People’s News points out, “Meeting AYP is different than being accredited. The targets for school or systems AYP were initially set in relation to an individual school’s baseline performance and get progressively more stringent each year. Schools in a school system as highly regarded as Chesterfield County are expected to have difficulty making AYP as the requirements get tighter and tighter. More locally, for example, Fox Elementary in the Fan did not make AYP this year. Accreditation is based on meeting testing requirements that are standard across the state.”

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