The N.C. Department of Public Instruction today released results of students’ performance on state end-of-grade and end-of-course testing administered in the spring of the 2011-2012 school year for public schools across the state, including students in Vance County Schools.
The results were officially certified this morning by the N.C. State Board of Education.
Information released today also showed that the Vance County Schools’ four-year cohort graduation rate for the Class of 2012 was at 68.2 percent, slightly higher than the previous year. At Northern Vance High School, 75.6 percent of the students graduated this year, 69.9 percent of the class graduated from Southern Vance High School and 92.5 percent graduated from Western Vance High School.
The data for Vance County Schools indicate the results of performances by local students in grades 3-8 on end-of-grade testing in reading and mathematics and the performances of local students in grades 9-12 on state end-of-course testing in Algebra 1, English 2 and Biology courses.
“Our minimum goal for performance by each school was to be at or above 65 percent proficiency for students in grades 3-12,” said Superintendent Ronald E. Gregory. “ Nine of 16 schools met or exceeded that goal and seven of our schools did not. So, we still have some work to do.”
This is the final year of the ABCs of Public Education accountability program before the state transitions to the READY school accountability model in the 2012-13 school year. Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs) have replaced the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measures previously required by the U.S. Department of Education. Under AMOs, proficiency targets are set for each student subgroup. Before AMOs were allowed, there was only one proficiency target for all student subgroups (proficiency subgroup targets are available online at www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/abc/2011-12).
Results for Vance County Schools for the 2011-2012 school year include:
Aycock Elementary School – Principal: Laura Rigsbee
- N.C. School of Distinction meeting high growth standards
- 81.2 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 95.2 percent of targets met under federal standards (20 out of 21 targets met)
Vance County Early College High School – Principal: Michael Bullard
- N.C. School of Distinction meeting expected growth standards
- 84.4 percent of students in grades 9-12 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (5 out of 5 targets met)
Dabney Elementary School – Principal Dr. Michael Putney
- N.C. School of Progress meeting high growth standards
- 66.6 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 94.1 percent of targets met under federal standards (16 out of 17 targets met)
Pinkston Street Elememtary School – Principal: Sherri Bowers
- N.C. School of Progress meeting high growth standards
- 75.9 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (13 out of 13 targets met)
Zeb Vance Elementary School – Principal: Anne Garrison
- N.C. School of Progress meeting high growth standards
- 74.5 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 82.4 percent of targets met under federal standards (14 out of 17 targets met)
Northern Vance High School – Principal: Brian Creasman
- N.C. School of Progress meeting high growth standards
- 67.7 percent of students in grades 9-12 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (20 out of 20 targets met)
Southern Vance High School – Principal: Willa Clark
- N.C. School of Progress meeting high growth standards
- 60.7 percent of students in grades 9-12 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 45 percent of targets met under federal standards (9 out of 20 targets met)
New Hope Elementary School – Principal: Crystal Richardson
- N.C. School of Progress meeting expected growth standards
- 72.9 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (13 out of 13 targets met)
E.O. Young Jr. Elementary School – Principal: Dr. Adrienne Morton
- N.C. School of Progress meeting expected growth standards
- 70.3 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 92.3 percent of targets met under federal standards (12 out of 13 targets met)
Carver Elementary School – Principal: Dr. Harold Thompson Jr.
- N.C. School of Progress meeting expected growth standards
- 66.5 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (13 out of 13 targets met)
L.B. Yancey Elementary School – Principal: Clarence Hicks
- N.C. School of Progress meeting expected growth standards
- 63.7 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 76.9 percent of targets met under federal standards (10 out of 13 targets met)
Eaton-Johnson Middle School – Principal: Dr. Larry Webb
- N.C. School of Progress meeting expected growth standards
- 62.2 percent of students in grades 6-8 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 64 percent of targets met under federal standards (16 out of 25 targets met)
Clarke Elementary School – Principal: Dr. John Hargrove
- No Recognition School
- 63.6 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 73.3 percent of targets met under federal standards (11 out of 15 targets met)
E.M. Rollins Elementary School – Principal: Dean Thomas
- No Recognition School
- 65.4 percent of students in grades 3-5 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 84.6 percent of targets met under federal standards (11 out of 13 targets met)
Western Vance High School – Principal: Eric Pierce
- Alternative school meeting high growth standards
- 46.2 percent of students in grades 9-12 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 100 percent of targets met under federal standards (3 out of 3 targets met)
Henderson Middle School – Interim Principal: David Westbrook
- N.C. Priority School
- 56.8 percent of students in grades 6-8 meeting proficiency under state standards
- 58.6 percent of targets met under federal standards (17 out of 29 targets met)
The definition of the ABCs categories for school recognitions include:
Schools Making High Growth attained their high growth standard.
Schools Making Expected Growth attained their expected growth standard (but not their high growth standard).
Honor Schools of Excellence are schools that made at least expected growth, had at least 90 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III (grade level) and made AYP (federal standards).
Schools of Excellence are schools that made at least expected growth and had at least 90 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III, but did not make AYP.
Schools of Distinction are schools that made at least expected growth and had at least 80 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level II (but were not Honor Schools of Excellence or Schools of Excellence).
Schools of Progress are schools that made at least expected growth and had at least 60 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III (but were not Honor Schools of Excellence or Schools of Excellence or Schools of Distinction).
School Receiving No Recognition did not make their expected growth standards, but have at least 60 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III.
Priority Schools are school that have less than 60 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III, irrespective of making their expected growth standards and are not low-performing schools.
Low-Performing Schools are those that failed to meet their expected growth standards and have less than 50 percent of their students’ scores at or above Achievement Level III.