Are these mailed to students from the school or form some general location? If it is from our school, we will have a long wait.

Not yet.
I can't wait to see the difference in my kids' scores. One is the good student who gets passing, but mediocre scores, and the other is so not into school, but gets almost perfect ones. So weird.

Has anyone received their scores yet?

Lest some Vienna parents see these results and start worrying...I can tell you that pp had it correct when they said it can literally be a handful of children in the ENTIRE school who cause the school not to make AYP. If a subgroup is small (f/e: let's say the subgroup of students who are both SPED and ESOL qualified), then literally 1 or 2 students who do not pass will cause that subgroup to have a "failing" score. And if 1 subgroup has a failing score, then the entire school could fail. I cannot speak for Kilmer, Jackson, Marshall Road, etc, but I know in my school (in western ffx), we literally missed AYP this year by of 2 students. 2.students. Give me a break!

The SOL is like any standardized test-the more you "teach" to it, the better your students will do on it. If teachers in the school give tons of tests over the course of the year that are similar to the SOL (read: multiple choice tests), and spend a lot of time focusing on things they know will be tested on the SOL, then that school will come out ahead in AYP rankings (at least until every school is required to pass 100%). I was at a school like that, and found it completely stultifying. I would rather teach my students material that will challenge their minds and have them extend their knowledge than give them countless drills on material that is baseline and the minimum that they should know in order to have everyone pass the test and meet some ridiculous standard set down by politicians who have no idea what goes on inside a real classroom. Yes, a happy medium can be reached, but in my mind, that kind of teaching easily attracts teachers with no imagination.

If you go here:

https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/

you can select school or division to veiw detailed 2010-2011 SOL data.

If you go here:

https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/

you can view some detailed 2010-2011 info on individual school or division.

Anonymous wrote:AYP results show interesting trends....The criteria must be harder. A lot of schools did not make it. In Vienna, for example, Flint Hill, Marshall Road Elementary and Cunningham Park did not make AYP.

Some AAP centers did not make the cut: Mosbey Woods.

I did not do a comprehensive analysis.

Kilmer and Jackson did not make AAP either - two middle schools that Vienna AAP kids go to. Freedom Hill also did not make AAP.

Sangster is a good example of how utterly ridiculous this labelling is. Sangster is a AAP center and has very high SOL pass rates in all subjects. The pass rates are far above the state pass rate in every subject. Yet, this year, Sangster is labelled a failing school b/c it's subgroup for Students With Disabilities in ONE subject area did not meet the passing standard. Yet, the scores on all the subjects for each grade are enviable for any Va. school!

NCLB was a farce from the get-go and now we are seeing that in practice.

They up the pass rate each year so it becomes very difficult for schools to make AYP. Eventually I don't believe any schools will make AYP since all it would take is one student failing in a sub-group.

Understand the concept of AYP -- every year there will be more and more schools that don't make it (even if it's just b/c of ONE group) b/c each year the standards for the pass rates in each group and subject go up. Unless schools can get 100% of their students to pass, they will ALL fail to make AYP in a few years.

As for schools that didn't make AYP (mine didn't last year, but did this year), it can be as simple as a single group not meeting the pass rates. For example, Economically disadvantaged kids in 4th grade math did not meet the required pass rate (that's what it was at my kids' school last year) and the WHOLE school is labelled as FAILED TO MAKE Annual Yearly Progress. It's kind of insulting to the rest of the school that they get this label, but that's the insanity of No Child Left Behind.

For anyone who is looking for the data, here is the link to download the results for all of VA.

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/accreditation_ayp_reports/ayp/index.shtml

AYP results show interesting trends....The criteria must be harder. A lot of schools did not make it. In Vienna, for example, Flint Hill, Marshall Road Elementary and Cunningham Park did not make AYP.

Some AAP centers did not make the cut: Mosbey Woods.

I did not do a comprehensive analysis.

They are releasing the information today. Schools who made ayp/or didn't are already available on the VA Dept. of Education page. The link to the school profiles is not working but should be soon.

When are the stats on school profiles updated, for the school as a a whole?

Our kids' grades were affected by the SOL score. Since the teachers could get the kids' scores the same day, they awarded up to 5 extra points on their final grades. It was a great motivator.