What is AYP?
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is one of the cornerstones of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. According to NCLB, Michigan and other states must develop target starting goals for AYP and the state must raise the bar in gradual increments, so 100 percent of the students in the state are proficient on state assessments by the 2013-14 school year. In Michigan, AYP is a measure of year-to-year student achievement on the Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) test. AYP applies to each district and school in the state. In order to make AYP at the district level, at least two out of the three levels in the district (elementary, middle, and high) must make AYP. NCLB sanctions for schools that do not make AYP for two or more years in a row apply to those districts and schools that receive Title I funds.
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East Lansing Annual Yearly Progress, 2005-06
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AYP
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Donley
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Met
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Glencairn
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Met
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Marble
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Met
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Pinecrest
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Met
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Red Cedar
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Met
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Whitehills
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Met
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MacDonald
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Met
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High School
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Met
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District
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Met
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Education YES! - a Yardstick for Excellent Schools
The Michigan Department of Education conducts an Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) evaluation of all public elementary, middle schools, and high schools in Michigan. AYP tests schools and school districts in the areas of academic achievement, participation in state assessment, graduation rate for high schools, and student attendance for elementary and middle schools. In addition, the Department reports on Education YES! - a Yardstick for Excellent Schools, the state school accreditation system under which letter grades are assigned for academic achievement and eleven measures of school performance to evaluate schools performance in Michigan schools.
This report card system is available for parents, citizens, teachers, and school administrators to learn about how schools are both performing and improving. The report card provides a composite grade for each school. The following chart shows the grades for each school for the 2005-2006 school year.
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School Report Card 2005-06
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Composite Grade
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Donley
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B
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Glencairn
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A
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Marble
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A
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Pinecrest
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A
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Red Cedar
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A
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Whitehills
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A
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MacDonald
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A
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High School
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B
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