THREE-QUARTERS OF KENTUCKY PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAKE AYP
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Data indicate that 75.8 percent – 884 -- of Kentucky's 1,167 public schools made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in the 2006-07 school year under the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the Kentucky Department of Education announced today.
AYP results are based on the Kentucky Core Content Tests' (KCCT) items in reading and mathematics. Schools are required to have specific percentages of students reaching proficiency or above in reading and mathematics each year and to meet other criteria in order to make AYP.
The Kentucky Board of Education adopted the approach of establishing two, three-year plateaus of performance toward the goal of 100 percent proficiency by 2014. For the 2004-05 school year, the reading and mathematics goals rose an average of nearly nine points. The reading and mathematics goals remained at 2004-05 levels through the 2006-07 school year, then will rise again in 2007-08.
...According to the data, 884 Kentucky public schools met 100 percent of their NCLB goals for AYP, while 283 schools did not. Of the 283 schools that did not make AYP, 231 made 80 percent or more of their goals. Statewide, 92 percent -- 23 -- of the 25 target goals were met.
Schools and districts that are funded by the federal Title I program, which provides funds to ensure that disadvantaged children receive opportunities for high-quality educational services, will be subject to federal consequences if they do not make AYP in the same content area in any student group for two or more consecutive years. Student groups in Kentucky are minority students, low-income students, students with disabilities and students with limited-English proficiency. Statewide, 147 schools are subject to consequences outlined through NCLB:
· 47 Title I schools are in Tier 1 consequences.
· 34 Title I schools are in Tier 2 consequences.
· 20 Title I schools are in Tier 3 consequences.
· 40 Title I schools are in Tier 4 consequences.
· 1 Title I school is in first-year Tier 5 consequences.
· 5 Title I schools are in second-year Tier 5 consequences.
Consequences for the tiers increase each consecutive year that a school does not make AYP:
Tier 1 (2 years of not making AYP)
§ Notify parents
§ Implement school choice
§ Write or revise school plan
Tier 2 (3 years of not making AYP) Continue Tier 1 consequences, including:
§ Offer supplemental services
Tier 3 (4 years of not making AYP) Continue Tiers 1 and 2 consequences, including:
§ Implement corrective action
Tier 4 (5 years of not making AYP) Continue Tiers 1, 2 and 3 consequences, including:
§ Write a plan for alternative governance
Tier 5 (6 years of not making AYP) Continue Tiers 1, 2, 3 and 4 consequences, including:
· Implement alternate governance consistent with state law
School districts also are held to the requirements of AYP under NCLB. Of Kentucky's 175 school districts in 2006-07, 86 -- 49.1 percent -- met 100 percent of their target goals. Overall, 166 of 175 districts met 80 percent or more of their goals. For NCLB requirements, school districts are gauged on the total student population. This can mean that, even if every school within a district makes AYP, the district may not because of the total size of student populations and their performance.
School districts also are subject to consequences, which can include rewriting district plans and receiving state assistance. The 2007 data for school districts indicate:
· 21 Title I districts are in Tier 1 consequences.
· 27 Title I districts are in Tier 2 consequences.
· 13 Title I districts are in Tier 3 first-year consequences.
· 36 Title I districts are in Tier 3 second-year consequences.
In Kentucky, 811 of the 1,184 schools that participated in the state's 2006-07 assessment and accountability system were funded by Title I. All but two of the 175 school districts that participated in the 2006-07 assessments received some Title I funding. Anchorage Independent and Beechwood Independent did not receive Title I funding in 2006-07...
..Because of changes in implementation of NCLB for districts and schools, comparisons from 2006 to 2007 should be made with caution. An impact study will be done to determine the degree of genuine school improvement from 2006 to 2007 versus increases due to changes in NCLB policy.
Signed into law in January 2002, NCLB requires states to provide information on schools' and districts' progress toward proficiency by 2014. Each state uses its own standards and assessments to make the annual determinations. Kentucky used data from the 2006 and 2007 administration of the KCCT to provide 2007 AYP information for its schools and districts.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is the term used in NCLB to refer to the minimum improvement required of each school and district over the course of one year. It is measured at the school and district levels by:
· measuring growth in the percentage of students scoring proficient or above in reading and mathematics
· assessing improvement on the "other academic indicator"
· testing at least 95 percent of enrolled students and student populations of sufficient size
NCLB mandates that schools and districts be held accountable for the progress of student groups in reading and mathematics testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in each subject in high school and rates of participation in testing. Schools also are held accountable for other academic indicator -- for elementary and middle schools, that indicator is the CATS accountability classification; for high schools, the indicator is the graduation rate.
Each Kentucky school and district has a specific number of NCLB goals to meet in order to make AYP. Each grade level -- elementary, middle, high and combined -- has a unique Annual Measurable Objective (AMO) for reading and mathematics that schools and districts must reach in order to achieve AYP.
The number of goals varies depending on the sizes of student populations in each school and district. Student population data is reportable only if it meets a minimum group size of 10 students per grade where NCLB-required assessments are administered and 60 students in those grades combined, or the population makes up at least 15 percent of the total student enrollment in accountable grades. The maximum number of goals is 25. For school districts, the number of goals to meet ranges from 4 to 25, with only four of the state's most diverse school districts -- Boone County, Fayette County, Jefferson County and Warren County -- required to meet all 25 goals to make AYP. For individual schools, the number of goals to be met ranges from 4 to 22.
Detailed information on the AYP status of each Kentucky public school and district is available here.
SOURCE: KDE press release No. 07-073
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