14 Wiregrass high schools miss AYP

By Jim Cook

Published: August 4, 2008

Accountability reports released by the Alabama Department of Education on Monday had good news for the area’s elementary and middle schools, but were critical of local high schools.

According to the reports, 14 local high schools didn’t make adequate yearly progress as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind act. As has been the case in the past, low graduation rates were the culprit in many of the schools failure to make AYP.

The No Child Left Behind act’s AYP requirements are all-or-nothing, so if a school misses just one goal it’s listed as having failed to make AYP.

The following is a list of area schools that didn’t make AYP, and the reason why they missed it:
Ariton School—graduation rate
Dale County High School —graduation rate
G.W. Long High School —graduation rate
Abbeville High School —graduation rate
Headland High School —graduation rate
Houston County High School —graduation rate
Wicksburg High School —graduation rate
Daleville High School —graduation rate
Dothan High School—graduation rate, reading scores in its black and free and reduced lunch populations
Northview High School—graduation rate, reading scores in its black and free and reduced lunch populations
Elba High School—graduation rate
Enterprise High School—reading scores in its special education population
Geneva High School —graduation rate
Carroll High School —free and reduced lunch reading scores

More detailed information about area schools’ performance will be posted later today.