Duluth High School Achieves AYP in Amended Report

Duluth High School has now met state Adequate Yearly Progress standards for 2010-11 based on an amended report issued by the Georgia Department of Education, according to an announcement by Gwinnett County Public Schools.

Ferguson Elementary School also achieved AYP after recalculations that included appeals, summer graduates and summer retest scores for the CRCT (Criterion-Referenced Competency Test), CRCT-Modified and Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT).

This means that in a year when state standards rose, 82.5 percent of Gwinnett County’s public schools met the state’s accountability goals, Jorge Quintana, GCPS director of media relations, reported. Of 126 Gwinnett schools required to meet state standards, 104 made AYP for the 2010-11 school year.

Of Gwinnett’s 22 schools that did not make AYP in 2010-2011, only
four – Berkmar High, Phoenix High, Sweetwater Middle, and Hopkins Elementary – faced consequences because they had not made AYP the previous year.

Duluth Middle School, which is among the schools that did not make AYP in 2010-2011, does not face any consequences because it achieved AYP last year, Quintana said. DMS failed to meet AYP standards in mathematics and reading/English language arts for students with disabilities.