Casa Makes AYP

The NC Department of Public Instruction today released the preliminary results for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" (NCLB) for schools.

As measured by the data currently available, 100 percent of Casa's AYP targets were met.

Analyses of the state's End-of-Grade and End-of-Course tests are used in both the NCLB's Adequate Yearly Progress and the state's ABCs of Public Education, but each accountability program looks at the data in somewhat different ways.

AYP measures student subgroups against a fixed performance standard. Under NCLB, schools must meet every target with every identified subgroup in order to make AYP. The AYP passing rate targets apply to defined student subgroups. In order to qualify as a subgroup, there must be at least 40 students in the school identified under one of nine separate categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Multiracial, Limited English Proficiency, Economically Disadvantaged and Students with Disabilities. The school itself must also meet the target as a whole in order to meet the goal, and the school must test at least 95% of their students in each of those defined subgroups.

The ABCs of Public Education measure academic growth of students over the course of a year, as well as the percentage of students scoring at or above grade level.       ABCs results for all schools will be released in August.