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No Child Left Behind scores are in, and are downright curious Number of schools not making target goals for adequate yearly progress is down from 3 in 2006 to 1 in 2007, but District's overall rating is lower in 2007. District is appealing some scores. Special factors, including prison resident who are 100 day enrollees, included in average and depress scores. By Ed Waggener The No Child Left Behind Scores Adequate Yearly Progress reports for Adair County Schools are in, and they are a curious lot. In 2007, only one school did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and marked improvement over 2006, when three schools failed. But the District's overall score dropped, from 84.6% to 76.9%. All Adair County Schools made 100% on the AYP except Adair County Middle School (ACMS), and ACMS scored 83.3%. But averages are not what matters when the state figures the average, Adair County Instructional Supervisor Phyllis Curry said. "They also take into account the high school graduation rate," she said, and added that when the District wide rate is figured, some categories get equal weight in a way which doesn't make sense. For instance, she said that Adair County's special needs students include 169 in the lower grades, There are 62 special needs students in the middle grades, and only 35 in the high school. "But when the state averages the scores," Supervisor Curry said, "the 35 high school students receive the same weight as the 169 lower grades." She is appealing the graduation rate factor, as well. In 2006, three schools did not meet AYP goals, out of seven schools, but the District wide score was an 84.6% in 2006! The scores were published with a warning not to compare the scores for 2006 and 2007. Though the Adair County School District doesn't use it as an excuse, the District is saddled with some unusual circumstances. One is the presence of the maximum security prison, the Adair County Youth Development Center. Students from the ACYDC, when they are enrolled for 100 days as Adair County District Students, are included in the District's scores. The district scores are also adversely affected by the number of students in the system who are residents of Spectrum Care. Generally, these students do not score as high as students in the general population, according to school officials. A third factor sometimes attributed to the lower scores, is the higher number of foster care children in Adair County. But Supervisor Curry says that generalizations about these three groups should not be made. "We have some students in all three groups which do well," but if any of the groups are averaged and compared to the general enrollment with these three groups excluded, the differences are pronounced. The Adair County District Schools were rated as follows for the September 11, 2007 No Child Left Behind report: Adair County High School met 10 of 10 target goals for 100% Adair County Elementary, met 9 of 9 target goals for 100% John Adair Intermediate School, met 12 of 12 target goals for 100% For testing purposes, JAIS, icluded Colonel William Casey Adair County Middle School, met 10 of 12 target goals, for 83.3% Adair County School District met 10 of 13 target goals, for 76.9% Schools in the Greater Adair County area received the following scores for the September 11, 2007 No Child Left Behind report: Campbellsville Independent Schools, met 13 of 13 goals, 100% Casey County Schools, met 13 of 13 goals, 100% Cumberland County Schools, met 13 of 13 goals, 100% Green County Schools, met 13 of 13 goals, 100% Metcalfe County Schools, met 13 of 13 goals, 100% Russell County Schools, met 12 of 13 goals, 92.3% Taylor County Schools met 11 of 13 goals, 84.6% Adair County Schools met 10 of 13 goals, 76.9% Appeals are pending on some findings No Child Left Behind scores on agenda for Thursday meeting A discussion of the NCLB scores is scheduled for the regular second September meeting of the Adair County School Board on Thursday, September 20, 2007. Supervisor Curry says that the more important Commonwealth Accountability Testing Scores (CATS) will be released. Results are embargoed until September 26, 2007, the supervisor said, but from bits of information she has received, she expects noticeable improvements. "And CATS scores are much more important than No Child Left Behind," she said. The NCLB scores all carried "No Consequence," the online report said. I This story was posted on 2007-09-19 11:21:58
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