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Wednesday's Internet Edition, October 08, 2008.
New Hope and Arcohe miss mark on AYP
Oak View stays at top of pack
By Rachael Ackerman
Herald Editor
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While most of the focus remains on those schools within the city limits of Galt, when it comes to statewide test scores and federal progress mandates, high school officials keep a close eye on Galt’s outlying “feeder” schools each year as well.
In Herald, Arcohe Elementary School, Galt’s largest feeder district, struggled with both the state Academic Performance Index (API) ranks, and with the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Adequate Yearly Performance (AYP) markers.
Starting with a base score of 766 points in 2007, Arcohe was given a five-point target for improvement in 2008. When the state released the API ranks for 2008, Arcohe had not only failed to meet the five-point target, but had slipped on the API by seven points, landing at a 759 for the year.
As a result of missed growth targets in English/language arts in three significant subgroups, Arcohe also missed making its federal AYP for 2008.
In Thornton, New Hope Elementary School, where a higher than average number of English language learners have had the school in an annual struggle to make benchmark improvements on an all English test, gained six points on the API, moving from a 732 to a 738 in 2008.
However, New Hope missed making its AYP for 2008 by one missed mark in English/language arts by its English learners subgroup.
In Acampo, Oak View Elementary School remained in the hierarchy of academics in California by maintaining its above 800 score by posting an 842 for 2008.
While experiencing a loss of six points on the API, Oak View remains safe in the eye of the API. Additionally, Oak View met all 21 criteria of the 2008 AYP.
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