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Clarke schools get overall good ratings All but two schools in the Clarke County system met their Adequate Yearly Progress, AYP, standard, mandated by the State Department of Education. The state accountability requirements meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. The goal of the legislation is that all students reach 100 percent proficiency by 2014. The results from the Alabama Reading and Mathematics Test, or ARMT, for third through eighth grade students and the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, or AHSGE, for high school students were used to establish a baseline proficiency goal for each school. That goal will be increased each year until the student population reaches 100 percent. Grove Hill Elementary School, Coffeeville Elementary School and Coffeeville High School are the only three schools in the county system that have not been identified for school improvement. A school is identified for school improvement if it does not meet its AYP for two years in a row. In order to get out of school improvement, a school must meet its AYP for two years in a row. With the exception of Jackson Intermediate School and Gillmore Elementary School, all other schools in the county system met their AYP for the 2005-2006 year, which means they are on school improvement one year delay. Should those schools meet their AYP for the 2006-2007 year, they will come off school improvement. Other factors used to calculate a school's proficiency are the percentage of students taking the tests and the student attendance and graduation. Ninety five percent of the student population, which includes subgroups of special education, black, Hispanic, white and free and reduced lunch students are expected to participate in the testing. If 95 percent of a certain subgroup does not take the test, or a portion of a subgroup does not meet the test standards, then the school will not meet its AYP. At Jackson Intermediate School, there was not 95 percent participation on the reading portion of the ARMT for special education students, therefore the school is still identified for school improvement. Because Gillmore Elementary School "feeds" into Jackson Intermediate, it has the same accountability as Jackson Intermediate.
"The schools have made tremendous improvement. We are proud of our schools and the teachers for their dedication to meet these goals. Every year the goal is higher and they have worked very hard to improve on previous year's results and meet the new year's results. We just appreciate everyone's hard work, and we will continue to work to meet these goals," testing coordinator Julia Ann Deas said.
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