REPORT  ON  “AYP” AND  “NCLB”  REQUIREMENTS

AYP = Annual Yearly Progress

NCLB = No Child Left Behind

Many of you have probably heard of the new federal regulation for public school called NCLB or No Child Left Behind.  This Act was signed into law in January of 2002.   

AYP or “Adequate Yearly Progress”

One of the goals of NCLB is to have all students proficient in reading and math by 2014  and each state has a base score from which it will start from.  The base score for Communication Arts is 18.4 in 2002 and it increases each year until the goal of  100 is reached in 2014.  In Math the base score is 8.3 in 2002 and again increases to 100 by 2014.   The score for students at Avenue City R-IX was 55.3 in 2002 for communication arts and 54.8 in 2003 and for math it was 50.6 in 2002 and 53.8 in 2003.  As you can see our students fare very well with the NCLB standards for the first two years. 

You may have noticed in the St. Joseph News Press that some school buildings may have meet the benchmark or percentage for the year but the school building was marked "No" for meeting the AYP standard. Schools must also meet the AYP standard(s)  for each subgroup that is monitored and there must be at least 30 students in the subgroup. Below are the subgroups that are monitored by AYP:

If a school does not meet AYP standards for two consecutive years, it will be listed as a school that “needs improvement”.  Schools on this list must give students the right to transfer to another school in the district.  If it stays on this list for three years, the school must offer “supplemental services (such as tutoring) for students.  Avenue City provides tutoring during the school year and summer already.  If a school would stay on the list for five consecutive years, they would be forced to take corrective actions, such as replacing school personnel or extending the school year. 

Although Avenue City fares very well with the requirements of this law now, to expect any school district to attain 100 percent of their students to be able to achieve at the “proficient” level may be an unrealistic goal.  But we will strive to continue to improve and do the best we are capable of. 

The “Adequate Yearly Progress” scale for communication arts and math is listed below:

Numbers represent the percent of students that must be at the proficient level or above each year in order for the district to meet the AYP requirements of NCLB.

If you have any questions on the “No Child Left Behind” regulations, please let us know.  Please click on the links below to examine how Avenue City School District has performed on the Missouri Assessment Program exams in the past.

Grade 3                   Grade 7

Grade 4                 Grade 8

Grade 4                     Grade 8

Grade 3             Grade 7