It’s all smiles this week at the Fayette County School System after officials received the county’s Adequate Yearly Progress report.

School system spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach said Fayette is the only county in metro Atlanta that saw all of its schools make the grade. It’s also one of only 49 systems in the state to achieve the goal.

According to the Department of Education’s website, in order to make Adequate Yearly Progress, a school must meet state-set goals in test participation, academic achievement and a “second indicator” statistic (graduation rate for high schools and, usually, attendance rate for elementary and middle schools).

To meet the academic achievement goals, a school must have a certain percentage of students pass the state curriculum tests in math and reading/English language arts. All students and any qualifying subgroup of students, must meet those goals.

Those percentages will continue to rise until 2014, when No Child Left Behind mandates a 100 percent proficiency rate for all schools.

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