After meeting Adequate Yearly Progress the previous two years, Warsaw Community Schools failed to meet AYP in 2008 as a corporation.
While Wawasee, Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko school corporations made AYP, not all of the individual schools in the corporations did.
The Indiana Department of Education Wednesday released the list of schools and districts failing to meet adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind.In April 2008, Warsaw Schools had the distinction of being one of six Indiana school systems that made AYP for two consecutive years on the ISTEP+.
With Warsaw Schools making AYP for a second consecutive year, the school system was no longer classified as a Title I school corporation under "corporation improvement."
Warsaw Schools was in year three of school improvement. In 2007, Warsaw Schools made AYP but must make it for two continuous years to be out of sanctions.
Warsaw Schools had missed AYP since 2002 and was put under state-mandated corrective actions.
No Child Left Behind requires that each year every Indiana public school and school corporation be designated by the Indiana Department of Education to have made AYP or not. Schools must meet AYP not only with total population, but also with any subgroups within the student body.
Area schools that failed to meet one or more criteria, or those that fall into the focused or comprehensive improvement categories, include:
n Mentone Elementary School: English and math performance by low-income and special-education students.
n Tippecanoe Valley High School: English and math performance by low-income students.
n Tippecanoe Valley Middle School: English performance overall and by white and low-income students.
n Warsaw Community Schools: English performance by Hispanic, low-income, special-education and limited-English speaking students.
n Harrison Elementary School: English performance by Hispanic, low-income and limited-English speaking students; math performance by Hispanic, low-income, special-education and limited-English speaking students.
n Jefferson Elementary School: English performance by Hispanic, low-income and limited-English speaking students.
n Lakeview Middle School: English performance by low-income and special-education students; math performance by special-education students.
n Leesburg Elementary School: English performance by Hispanic and limited-English speaking students.
n Warsaw Community High: English and math performance by Hispanic, low-income, special-education and limited-English speaking students; English and math participation by special-education students
n Milford Elementary School: English performance by low-income students.
n North Webster Elementary School: English and math performance by low-income and special-education students.
n Wawasee Middle School: English performance overall and by white, low-income and special-education students; math performance by special-education students; English participation by special-education students
According to a press release from the IDOE, half of Indiana schools met a raised standard for AYP this year, down from 54 percent a year ago.
"It's unacceptable that only half our schools are achieving the minimum federal standard," said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett. "The circumstances require a renewed commitment from all Hoosiers and a sense of urgency that, sadly, doesn't currently exist. We simply must do better. The bar has been raised, but if Indiana students are going to compete with their peers from across the U.S. and around the world, we must continue to raise expectations across the board."
NCLB includes formal consequences for public schools that consistently do not make AYP and also participate in the federal Title I program. After not making AYP for two consecutive years, Title I schools enter improvement status, a series of interventions that become more extensive for each additional year that a Title I school does not make AYP.
There are two ways for schools to make AYP, according to the IDOE Web site. A school can meet all performance, participation and attendance/graduation targets for the overall student population and each student subgroup with 30 or more students; or reduce the number of students not meeting performance targets by 10 percent and meet attendance/graduation rate targets.
There are two ways school corporations can make AYP. They can meet performance, participation and attendance/graduation targets for the overall student population and each student subgroup (with 30 or more students) in one or more grade spans; or reduce the number of students not meeting performance targets by 10 percent and meet attendance rate targets.
For more information on AYP results, visit the IDOE Web site at www.doe.in.gov
