How to Calculate if Your School Has Made the AYP
No Child Left Behind requires students in grades 3 to 8 to be tested once a year and be proficient on a state reading and math assessment. Each school in the country is looked at to see if they made adequately yearly progress (AYP). If the school hasn't made AYP in 2 years they are placed on an improvement plan and changes are made. Calculating if your school has made AYP is done in a few steps.
Instructions
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Determine the subgroups for your school. In order for your school to have a subgroup, you need to have 45 students in that category. Examples of subgroups are male, female, Hispanic, white, English language learners and special education.
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Administer the state assessment to 95% of the total student population as well as 95% of the students in each subgroup.
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Calculate, when all students have completed the assessment, if your school met the reading and math assessment targets. Count the number of students who took the test and the number who passed it. Divide these numbers and you will get a percentage.
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Take the percentage and check it against the reading and math assessment targets, which can be found on your state's education department website. If the percentage matches or is more than the requirements, your school made AYP. If not, you did not reach it.
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Calculate the same way within each of the subgroups. Each subgroup also needs to meet the reading and math assessment target. If the school made AYP as a whole, but a subgroup did not meet the requirement, the school did not make AYP.
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