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Escambia Ala. District, Three Individual Schools Fail To Meet State Yearly Progress Standards
August 10, 2012
The Escambia County (Ala.) School District and three of four of the county’s high schools failed to make adequate yearly progress, according to data released Thursday by the Alabama Department of Education.
Escambia County students as a whole failed to make appropriate progress in reading at all grade levels and in math in grade levels 3-5 and high school. At the high school level, the only county school to make AYP was Flomaton High School.
Here’s how individual schools in the district fared on the state standards:
NO – Failed AYP
- Escambia County High School (year six)
- Escambia County Middle School (year two)
- W.S. Neal High (year four)
YES – Passed AYP
- A.C. Moore Elementary
- Rachel Patterson Elementary
- Huxford Elementary
- Pollard-McCall Junior High
- Flomaton Elementary
- Flomaton High School
- W.S. Neal Elementary
- W.S. Neal Middle
To determine adequate yearly progress, schools are assigned from 5 to 37 goals to achieve. If they fail to reach any one single goal, the whole school fails to make AYP. Ratings are based upon test scores, test participation and attendance or graduation rate.
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7 Responses to “Escambia Ala. District, Three Individual Schools Fail To Meet State Yearly Progress Standards”
Want to fix your schools Atmore? Stop voting for lackluster politicians and the lowest common denominator. Does any of the local school board members even have a college degree?
And we wonder what is wrong with our youth, more discipline and participation from parents at home would help our children so much. Parents please do not leave the learning process to our teachers alone, we need to take our part in helping our children and encouraging them to do better by sitting down with them to study, check their work to make sure it is correct and if not have them to correct it. Teachers need not to give up on our students either, stay firm with them in discipline in the classroom and a no tolerance policy for incorrect work or incomplete work, along with parents no tolerance policy as well. Do not accept below average or average grades,require better of them and more. It will take all of these and more to improve our children’s learning.
Congrats FHS and FES staff and students!! I have always said, Flomaton has one of if not THE best school in the county. Now for the bad news……….with all of these other school’s failing, look for these students to be allowed to be bussed to Flomaton, then look for Flomaton to have a Failed AYP in the near future!!
I see why so many send their kids to Florida schools. A teacher said I teach in Atmore but my child will not go there. I see the police and firemen in Atmore send there kids to Florida schools. Alabama should pay Florida to run Atmore’s school system.
Congrats Flomaton and the staff. I am so glad my child has the privliage to go to such a great school!
Congrats FHS! Reading and basic math are soooo important for life after high school!
Way to go FHS!