School District Fails to Meet Adequate Yearly Progress Standards
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is a measurement defined by the No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized tests.
The AYP ratings are based on the TAKS participation and passing rates, graduation and attendance rates. For a district or campus to meet AYP ratings is similar to achieving a Recognized rating in the TEA ratings that were released last week.
“Statewide, our passing rates on the TAKS test largely held steady this year. Those results coupled with the elimination of Texas Projection Measure and rising federal standards caused fewer Texas schools to met AYP this year,” said Commissioner of Education Robert Scott.
Almost 5,600 Texas schools met the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards for the federal school rating system this year. This represents 66 percent of all Texas campuses.
GPISD campuses that failed to meet AYP requirements include:
Grand Prairie High SchoolAdvantage Academy charter school also failed to meet AYP requirements.
South Grand Prairie High School
Crosswinds High School
Adams Middle School
Jackson Middle School
Kennedy Middle School
Bill Arnold Middle School
Eisenhower Elementary
Juan Sequin Elementary
A complete listing of Texas school’s AYP ratings is available online.
