2008 Adequate Yearly Progress Results

As part of the No Child Left Behind Act, each public school in the nation is required to measure annual progress based on multiple education targets. A school must meet all of its goals in each subgroup of children in order to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

The preliminary results are in for North Carolina, and 4 of 13 schools in the Franklin County Schools’ district made AYP. Nine of the 13 schools in the district either met all targets or missed only one. These results are subject to change when the reading scores are finalized.

Due to an overhaul on the reading section of the End-of-Grade test for grades 3-8, reading scores were not factored in the preliminary AYP results.

For a detailed description on AYP, visit the NC Department of Public Instruction on the Internet click here.

The four schools meeting the mark this year were Franklinton Elementary School, Youngsville Elementary School, Royal Elementary School and Laurel Mill Elementary School.

According to FCS Superintendent Dr. Bert L’Homme the AYP measurement is very misleading.

“At first glance, people may think that our schools are low performing, but this is far from the truth,” L’Homme said. “It is a disservice to the community to calculate AYP without reading scores.

“Regardless, our schools have shown considerable improvement over the past years. Our writing scores were up across the board, and we had strong improvement in our end-of-grade math tests and end-of-course tests scores for our high schools. We have more children achieving at or above grade level now than ever before.”