Adequate Yearly Progress•The federal law requires all states to
establish standards for accountability for all schools and districts in their states.
•The accountability system looks at the degree to which students across schools and districts are mastering the state standards
•The foundation for the accountability system is based on a state’s assessments.
•NCLB, now ESEA set the goal of 100% proficiency by the year 2014 with states setting incremental benchmarks.
NJ State Board Meeting :12/1/10
Adequate Yearly Progress95% Participation: Total students and each student subgroup with at least 40 students must have a participation rate of 95% or above on state assessments.
Meet or Exceed Proficiency: Total students and each student subgroup with at least 30 students must meet the state's AYP benchmarks for the percentage of students scoring proficient or better on the state assessments.
Secondary Measure: Each school, district, and the state as a whole must show progress on an additional measure (graduation rate for high school and attendance rate for elementary and middle schools).
Adequate Yearly Progress• Student achievement is determined by grade span
and each content area (LAL Math) in grades 3-8 and 11.
• Schools are judged by the performance of the total population and by the performance of subgroups.
• There are 40 indicators that must be met (including participation and proficiency rates) plus secondary indicators for each of the elementary, middle and HS grade spans.
• A safe harbor calculation is applied to determine if a school has made sufficient progress even if it has not met the proficiency target.
• When a school misses one or more indicator(s) they do not meet AYP in that subject area for that year.
State Benchmarks for AYP Starting
Point 2003
2005 2008 2011 2014
Language Arts Literacy
Elementary
Grades 3, 4, 5
68 75 *59 79 100
Middle
Grades 6, 7, 8
58 66 72 86 100
High School 73 79 85 92 100
Mathematics Elementary
Grades 3, 4, 5
53 62 *66 83 100
Middle
Grades 6, 7, 8
39 49 61 80 100
High School 55 64 74 86 100
* Transition year
School In Need of Improvement
School Year 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11SINI Schools (Year 2 and up ) 539 555 505 440 460 657
Total Schools 2173 2210 2217 2215 2222 2228Percent of SINI Schools (Year 2 and up ) 24.8% 25.1% 22.8% 19.9% 20.7% 29.5%
•When a school misses AYP for two years in a row in the same content area- they are determined a School in Need of Improvement
School Status by Year Status Year Number of Schools %
HoldStatus Title I schools
Year 10 15 0.7% 15Year 9 3 0% (2) 3Year 8 63 2.8% 41Year 7 14 0.6% (8) 13Year 6 - R-2 45 2.0% (2) 31Year 5 - R-1 41 1.8% (19) 31Year 4 - CA 69 3.1% (5) 57Year 3 - SES 119 5.3% (23) 86Year 2 - Choice 288 12.9% (36) 214
Hold status- met AYP for current year
Students with DisabilitiesAYP SINI
Number of Schools
Missed for SE 755
Missed for SE only
343
Total schools with SE subgroup
1255
Number of Schools
Missed this year’s AYP for SE only
104
Total SINI Schools
657
District AYP and Yearly Status
•District does not meet AYP: If the district missed AYP for any indicator in all grade spans by content area.
•District in Need of Improvement – (DINI)▫Miss for any indicator in all grade spans
for two consecutive years in same content area.
District Status by YearYear in Status Number of Districts %
DINI 7 3 0.5%
DINI 6 0 0.0%
DINI 5 5 0.8%
DINI 4 4 0.6%
DINI 3 4 0.6%
DINI 2 10 1.6%
DINI 1 31 4.9%
Resources
•Title I Accountability▫http://www.nj.gov/education/title1/
accountability/ayp/1011/•Understanding Accountability:
▫http://www.nj.gov/education/title1/accountability/ayp/1011/understanding.pdf