Today, the Virginia Department of Education released the Adequately Yearly Progress (AYP) reports as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and it’s bad news for Virginia schools. Virginia did not make its AYP marks—and neither did 91 percent of school divisions in the state.
Locally, five schools in the city school division (Burnley-Moran, Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Johnson and Venable) made the AYP grade, but four schools and the overall school division failed to meet AYP standards. This year, schools were required to meet or exceed scores of 81 percent for reading and 79 percent for math.
In the county, 73 percent of schools made AYP marks, including two that failed last year: Sutherland Middle School and Cale Elementary.