The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) announced today that 45 percent of Commonwealth School Divisions achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 2008-09, compared to the 55 percent that did not.
According to an Albemarle County Public Schools press release, students in the county have posted greater than 90 percent passing rates for both mathematics and reading, meaning the county as a division achieved AYP.
Charlottesville’s school division, however, did not make AYP. Individual schools that did not make AYP in the city included Charlottesville High School, Buford Middle School, and Clark Elementary and Sutherland Middle School and Cale Elementary School in the county.
According to VDOE, for a school or division in the Commonwealth, 81 percent of students must demonstrate proficiency in reading. The percentage for mathematics is 79 percent.