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Test scores: This time, no school is left behind in Fayette

By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@TheCitizenNews.com

Imagine your child coming home with a straight A report card.

Last week, the Fayette County School System reported that it brought home the highest marks in the latest round of test results released by the Georgia Department of Education.

All of Fayette County’s 27 schools met Georgia’s Adequate Yearly Progress testing criteria and no schools will have to offer parents the option of transferring students to other schools.

The Adequate Yearly Progress requirements is part of the No Child Left Behind law that requires states to set goals based on student achievement data. States are required to “raise the bar” for AYP each year to meet the NCLB goal of having all students proficient in reading and math by the 2013-14 school year.

The law also requires each school district to sort test results by the racial/ethnic category, disability, limited English proficiency and socioeconomic status.

While all of Fayette County’s schools made the grade, the news was not so good in neighboring counties. In Coweta County, only 80 percent of the schools passed the AYP requirements, while in Clayton the number dropped to 64.5 percent.

Fayette was the second biggest school system to have all its schools make the grade. Only Cherokee County, with 31 schools, had more schools achieve the requirements.