The number of Virginia schools that met the federal mark for adequate yearly progress in reading and math dropped slightly after the pass rates got a little tougher for the 2008-09 school year, a report today shows.
According to the Virginia Department of Education, 71 percent of the state’s 1,855 schools — 1,321 schools — met the federal benchmarks for success in reading and math.
That’s down from 74 percent last year.
The state as a whole met AYP, and more school divisions — 59, up from 54 last year — reached the standard.
AYP is the federal measure of success under the No Child Left Behind Law. In Virginia, its based on students’ Standards of Learning test scores. State accreditation results, also based on the SOL tests, will come out next month.
One of the reasons for the decrease could be that reading and math pass rates went up, from 77 percent to 81 percent in reading, and 75 percent to 79 percent in math.
That means that 81 percent and 79 percent of students overall and in six subgroups had to pass the tests.
The pass rates will continue to rise until it hits 100 percent in the 2013-14 school year, which is the goal of No Child Left Behind.
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