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The Kentucky Department of Education released Kentucky Core Content Test results recently to schools and media as well as information on the adequate yearly progress made by school districts as determined by No Child Left Behind.
According to the NCLB progress report, most schools met the majority of their target goals for improvement. However, a school must meet all of those target goals in order to be determined as having met adequate yearly progress. NCLB progress is measured through reading and math scores for all students as well as subgroups of students, including those who received free or reduced lunch, students with disabilities and others. A school must have a certain number of students in that subgroup for it to be counted as a target goal. There are a possible total 25 target goals, though none of the schools in this area have that many.
Fleming County
All of Fleming County's Title 1 schools met all of their adequate yearly progress target goals. Those schools include E.P. Ward Elementary, Ewing Elementary, Flemingsburg Elementary and Hillsboro Elementary. Simons Middle School met 12 of its 13 goals, failing only in its overall reading status. Fleming County High School met seven of its 10 goals, failing in the same three areas as Bracken County High School.For the high school, all three of the target goals failed were connected to math scores. The school did not meet adequate yearly progress in overall math status, total tested math or ethnicity white math status.
The district totals for the elementary schools in content area performance were close in all categories, none moving by more than two percentage points. For reading, math and on-demand writing, the percent of students scoring proficient or higher fell to 69.17 percent in reading, 64.74 percent in math and 57.32 percent in on-demand writing.
In science, the percent rose to 63.95 percent and in social studies rose to 55.41 percent.
At each of the individual elementary schools, scores varied widely. Ewing Elementary had 100 percent of its students achieve proficient or higher in science, but E.P. Ward Elementary saw a nearly 40 point drop in on-demand writing.
The middle school saw decreased percentages in three of five content areas, including reading, social studies and on-demand writing. Those percentages were 63.65 percent, 52.58 percent and 40.72 percent, respectively. Percents improved in math and science with 63.1 percent in math and 68.89 percent in science.
The high school saw only decreased percentages, though the differences from 2008 were slight in most cases. In reading the number deviated slightly, by less than a percentage point, dipping to 55.26 percent. Math fell about three points, science by less than a percentage point, and social studies by less than two percentage points. On-demand writing saw the most significant dip of about 10 percentage points.
