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

Resources

•Schools in need of Improvement:▫http://www.nj.gov/education/title1/

accountability/ayp/1011/needimprovement.xls

•Districts in need of Improvement:▫http://www.nj.gov/education/title1/

accountability/ayp/1011/dini/identified.pdf