Signed into law in January 2002, NCLB requires states to provide information on schools' and districts' progress toward proficiency by 2014. Each state uses its own standards and assessments to make the annual determinations. Kentucky uses data from the 2007 administration of the Kentucky Core Content Test and submission of alternate portfolios to provide 2007 AYP information for the schools and districts.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is the term used in NCLB to refer to the minimum improvement required of each school and district over the course of one year. It is measured at the school and district levels by measuring growth in the percentage of students scoring proficient or above in reading and mathematics and assessing improvement on one "other academic indicator" while testing at least 95 percent of enrolled students and student subpopulations of sufficient size.
NCLB mandates that schools and districts be held accountable for the progress of subgroups—minority students, low-income students, students with disabilities, students with limited-English proficiency (LEP)—in reading and mathematics-- testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in each subject in grades 10-12 and rates of participation in testing. Schools also are held accountable for other academic indicators—for elementary and middle schools that indicator is the CATS performance judgment; for high schools, the indicator is the graduation rate. The other academic indicator is lagged one year and uses data from 2006.
Note: Data in the Briefing Packets will not be updated to reflect results of data review and other quality assurance processes. The data were accurate as of the release date, September 12,2007. For data accurate through May 27, 2008, see the 2007 Kentucky Performance Reports.
The expanded data files:
Because Microsoft Excel (.xls) files have a maximum limit of variables in a file, approximately 250 variables, multiple files are needed to report the data. For accuracy and ease of presentation the file layout is not separated into multiple file layouts. The variables on the multiple files are sequenced in ascending order as described in the file layout. Each file has identification variable (CODE) for matching data from the separate data file.
The expanded Excel files are: NCLB07_file 1.xls NCLB07_file 2.xls
2007 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Reports