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Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) designations for Indiana school corporations and schools are determined by student performance and participation rates on the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus (ISTEP+) assessments in English/language arts and mathematics; student attendance rates (for elementary and middle schools); and graduation rates (for high schools).
Since 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has required public schools to make AYP for both the overall student population and any demographic group within the school that includes 30 or more students (often called 'subgroups'). These student subgroups include: economic background, race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency and special education.
Schools must make AYP in every student group in order to meet AYP. The goal of NCLB is for all students to achieve proficiency in English/language arts and math by 2014.
There are two ways for schools to make AYP:
•Meet all performance, participation and attendance/graduation targets for athe overall student population and each student subgroup with 30 or more students OR
•Reduce the number of students not meeting performance targets by 10 percent and meet attendance/graduation rate targets (called Safe Harbor).
There are two ways for school corporations to make AYP:
•Meet performance, participation and attendance/graduation targets for the overall student population and each student subgroup (with 30 or more students) in one or more grade spans: elementary school (grades K-5), middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) OR
•Reduce the number of students not meeting performance targets by 10 percent and meet attendance rate targets (called Safe Harbor).
As noted above, the stated goal of NCLB is for all students to achieve grade-level proficiency in English/language arts and math by 2014. As such, each state is required to raise the minimum percentage of students that must pass English/language arts and math assessments in order to make AYP.
Indiana's AYP bar raises every three years through 2010 and every year after that through 2012. By 2014, the federal law calls for 100 percent of students at every school to pass state tests in both subjects OR significantly reduce the percentage of students not passing these tests by at least 10 percent annually (safe harbor provision).
Click on the links below to view each Griffith school's AYP performance.
Beiriger Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School
Ready Elementary School
Wadsworth Elementary School
Griffith Middle School
Griffith High School
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