Five More Paulding Schools Make AYP

Five Paulding schools received good news in the updated Adequate Yearly Progress report released Tuesday.

The Georgia Department of Education released the report, which shows how schools are meeting goals prescribed by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The updated report includes summer retest scores, summer graduates and appeals.

Earlier this year, the results as reported by the state DOE showed that within the , 16 elementary and four middle schools were able to meet test participation and academic achievement goals, while four of its elementary, four middle and all five high schools fell short of required benchmarks.

Tuesday’s report revealed that three elementary schools—Abney, Dallas and Panter—as well as McClure Middle and North Paulding High ultimately made AYP. But eight schools remained short of goals—Baggett Elementary; Austin, East Paulding and Scoggins middle schools; and East Paulding, Hiram, Paulding County and South Paulding high schools.

Making AYP has become tougher in recent years due to the ramping up of academic goals. Schools across the state will have to continue to increase their academic results as goals move closer to a required 100-percent proficiency for all students by 2014.

Dallas-Hiram Patch will look further into the results later today.