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Elmhurst District 205 School Report Card Data Now Available Online

Data shows two district schools failed to meet adequate yearly progress, according to No Child Left Behind.

Elmhurst Unit District 205 has posted links to Illinois School Report Card data for the district's schools on its web site.

The Illinois State Board of Education issues School Report Cards each fall for all public schools and school districts in the state. The reports include data on school finances, demographics, instruction and student assessments, which are based on student testing done during the 2010-2011 school year.

and failed to meet adequate yearly progress as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which stipulates 100 percent of students must meet AYP by 2014. If any subgroup of a school fails to meet AYP, then the whole school does not meet AYP.

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And therein lies the problem, administrators say. Only eight high schools in Illinois made AYP this year. The Illinois State Board of Education is planning this month to ask the U.S. Department of Education , which could be granted if schools set more rigorous curriculum standards and establish teacher and principal evaluations tied to student performance.

This is the fourth year in a row York failed to meet AYP, and the school is on academic warning status. The school will have to submit a state-approved school improvement plan.

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Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Charles Johns presented data from the 2011 Illinois School Report Cards to the District 205 School Board . But his District 205 achievement report provides a fuller set of performance indicators than can be summarized in the Report Cards.

Other indicators of academic success, Johns said, include increased scores in the Prairie State Achievement Exam and a composite average of 23.5 on the ACT.

He told the School Board at its last meeting Oct. 25 that the district has 145 days after receiving the report card to create the improvement plan for York. This year, he said the state has changed the template for the plan and school officials hadn't received the template as of that meeting. Johns said this is "awkward" because it means the improvement plan won't be finalized until after the first semester of the school year.

He assured the board, however, that principals and teachers already are looking at the data and working on the plan. It will be brought before the board Dec. 13, he said.


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