Highl ights from 2010-2011 Rhode Is land AYP Data

• According to data released today, nearly twenty percent of Rhode Island schools (54 of 290 schools) failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2011. Across the state, 70 schools (approximately 24 percent) were in some level of improvement under No Child Left Behind, meaning they failed to make AYP in more than one year. Of the 54 schools not making AYP in 2011, 18 (33 percent) were elementary schools, 11 (20 percent) were middle schools, and 25 (46 percent) were high schools.

• Half of the schools in Providence, the state’s largest district, failed to make AYP in 2011 (see Table 1). But this was an improvement over 2010, when two thirds of the district’s schools failed to make AYP, despite an increase this year in the proficiency scores required to make AYP.1

• All but two (87 percent) of Rhode Island’s fifteen charter schools made AYP in 2011.

• The state as a whole saw modest gains in the percentage of schools meeting AYP for certain subgroups (see Table 2). But African American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students saw little improvement over the past year, and are still performing well below their white and more economically advantaged peers.

Table 1. AYP results, 2009-2011

District Number of

Schools Percent not meeting AYP

Percent with NCLB Sanctions

2010-2011 2009-2010 2010-2011 2009-2010 Central Falls 5 60% 40% 80% 60% Coventry 7 14% 14% 14% 14% Cranston 23 17% 17% 17% 17% Cumberland 8 13% 13% 13% 38% East Providence 11 27% 18% 36% 27% Johnston 6 17% 17% 17% 17% Lincoln 6 17% 17% 17% 17% Newport 6 17% 0% 17% 0% North Kingstown 4 25% 0% 25% 0% North Providence 9 11% 0% 11% 0% Pawtucket 16 25% 25% 25% 38% Providence 44 50% 67% 75% 75% South Kingstown 7 14% 0% 14% 14%

                                                                                                                         1 Rhode Island Department of Education (2011). Chart of Annual Measureable Objectives (AMOs) [Index Proficiency Scores]. Available: http://www.eride.ri.gov/reportcard/11/documents/AMOTargetsforELAandMathematics.pdf.

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Warwick 22 14% 14% 14% 18%

West Warwick 5 40% 17% 40% 33% Woonsocket 10 20% 13% 20% 38% Source: Rhode Island Department of Education (2011). School Report Cards.

Table 2. AYP results by subgroup, 2010-2011

Percent of schools not meet ing subgroup targets

ELA Math 2010 2011 Change 2010 2011 Change

Afr ican American

7% 3% -4% 15% 10% -5%

Hispanic 3% 4% 1% 24% 17% -7%

Low-income 1% 3% 2% 14% 13% -1% Source: Rhode Island Department of Education (2011). School Report Cards.