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Table 1.2. Percent of all schools not making Adequate Yearly Progress, and percent of all schools identified as in need of improvement, by state: 2008–09
 
State Total number of schools Percent of all schools not making Adequate Yearly Progress1 Percent of all schools identified as in need of improvement2
United States 93,327 33 18  
         
Alabama 1,376 13 9  
Alaska 509 43 23  
Arizona 1,915 26 16  
Arkansas 1,091 53 37  
California 9,913 57 28  
         
Colorado 2,008 9 3
Connecticut 991 41 36  
Delaware4 192 35 25  
District of Columbia 187 74 71  
Florida 3,354 77 —  
         
Georgia 2,172 14 13  
Hawaii 287 64 51  
Idaho 652 34 26  
Illinois 3,910 40 18  
Indiana 1,849 —  
         
Iowa 1,442 20  
Kansas 1,416 12 2  
Kentucky5 1,057 44 10  
Louisiana 1,365 17 4  
Maine 635 18 21  
         
Maryland 1,459 14  
Massachusetts 1,843 59 52  
Michigan 3,645 14 14  
Minnesota 2,303 46 3
Mississippi 950 51 —  
         
Missouri 2,191 63 44  
Montana 823 27 11  
Nebraska 1,036 5  
Nevada 668 41 32  
New Hampshire 477 53 49  
         
New Jersey 2,210 36 21  
New Mexico 821 68 62  
New York 5,279 —  
North Carolina 2,515 29 21  
North Dakota 465 25 —  
         
Ohio 3,476 42 29  
Oklahoma 1,795 2  
Oregon 1,288 29 5  
Pennsylvania 3,115 22 18  
Rhode Island 297 19 15  
         
South Carolina 1,089 50 24  
South Dakota 691 19 7  
Tennessee 1,662 22 23  
Texas 8,322 4 3  
Utah 964 13 1  
         
Vermont 306 29 25  
Virginia 1,880 28 16  
Washington 2,268 57 47  
West Virginia 657 23 4  
Wisconsin 2,156 7 4  
Wyoming 355 —  
— Not available.
1Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), each state has developed and implemented measurements for determining whether its schools and local educational agencies are making adequate yearly progress (AYP). AYP is an individual state's measure of progress toward the goal of 100 percent of students achieving to state academic standards in at least reading/language arts and math. In this table, schools identified as not making Adequate Yearly Progress have failed to meet their targets for 95 percent proficiency in English language arts/reading or mathematics for any of the grades tested (grades 3-8, high school) for the school, and for the NCLB student subgroups (economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency), or for another academic indicator.
2 The percent of all schools identified as in need of improvement was calculated by dividing the total number of schools identified as in need of improvement by the total number of schools. The percent of all schools identified as in need of improvement is an aggregation of schools in Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 (corrective action), Year 4 (restructuring-planning), Year 5 and beyond (restructuring-implementing) of school improvement. All states must consider whether their Title I schools are designated as "in need of improvement." Federal law allows states to choose whether non-Title I schools are assigned a school improvement status and whether federal sanctions apply to those schools. As a result, some schools rated for Adequate Yearly Progress may not receive a school improvement designation.
3 Colorado and Minnesota only identify Title I schools for improvement.
4 For Delaware, the number of schools rated is shown. There were 206 schools in Delaware in 2008–09.
5 Based on State Bill 1, Kentucky will not be reporting state accountability and academic indices as in the past. The report does have several familiar pages with performance level (NAPD) trend, core content and disaggregated data per content area. Districts and schools will see the distribution of how students scored in the Novice (with sublevels), Apprentice (with sublevels), Proficient, and Distinguished performance levels.
SOURCE: State Accountability Profiles, Council of Chief State School Officers, retrieved July 8, 2010 from http://accountability.ccsso.org/index.asp. Data Source.

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