NEWS
For Immediate Release
October 29, 2010
Illinois students continue to make steady progress on state tests
Despite student improvement, fewer schools and districts making AYP as NCLB performance targets continue to increase
211 schools and 56 districts beat the odds to make AYP this year, despite missing the target last year
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced today that students are showing incremental improvement on tests administered by the state and that 211 schools and 56 districts made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) this year that did not make it last year. However, despite the improvements students are making, more schools and districts are failing to meet performance targets that continue to increase under the federal No Child Left Behind law (NCLB). The results were announced as part of the State Board’s statewide analysis of the 2010 State Report Card.
“Schools and districts are making improvement, even as the required testing performance benchmark increased by another 7.5 points since last year,” said Christopher A. Koch, State Superintendent of Education. “Overall, our statewide averages continue to increase incrementally or hold steady. But the number of schools making AYP continues to decline – now outnumbering those districts that do make AYP. We need to modify No Child Left Behind to take into account student growth and improvements in learning, rather than just penalizing schools for not meeting artificial performance targets.”
Analysis of the statewide data for 2010 shows that one district and nine schools have been removed from improvement status by meeting standards for NCLB, also known as AYP, for two consecutive years. In addition, the data also shows that 55 schools and 9 districts in improvement status will not advance to further sanctions because they made AYP this year.
The tests were given in March and April. Students in third through eighth grades took the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in reading and mathematics while students in fourth and seventh grades were also tested in science and third, fifth, sixth and eighth grade students were also tested in writing. Students in 11th grade take the Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE), which tests students in math, reading, science and writing. Only reading and mathematics results are used in calculating AYP.
Overall, results show the number of schools and districts that made AYP decreased under NCLB performance targets. During 2010, the target for student achievement increased from 70 percent meeting and exceeding state standards to 77.5 percent and the target high school graduation rate increased from 78 percent to 80 percent. Attendance rates for elementary and middle schools increased from 90 percent in 2008-09 to 91 percent in the 2009-10 school year and from 78 percent last year to 80 percent in 2009-10 for high schools.
Results from 2010 show 1,999 or 51 percent of all schools failed to make AYP in 2010, an increase from 40 percent in 2009. In addition, 309 districts made AYP in 2010 while 559 or 64 percent failed to make AYP, an increase from 49 percent in 2009.
In June, the State Board of Education adopted the new Illinois Learning Standards in math and English based on the internationally-benchmarked Common Core State Standards. Illinois is a governing member of the 26 state Partnership for Assessment for College and Careers (PARCC) that will develop a new generation of tests aligned to the new standards to measure students’ knowledge and skills. The new state tests are expected to be available by the 2014-15 school year.
Student Demographics & Performance
- Total enrollment in Illinois public schools decreased from 2,070,125 in 2009 to 2,064,312 in 2010.
- Since 1999, the percentage of low-income students has increased from 36.1 percent to 45.4 percent in 2010.
- Minority enrollment increased to 47.2 percent in 2010 from 38 percent in 1999. The increase is accounted for mainly by Hispanic students who have increased from 13.9 percent in 1999 to 21.1 percent in 2010.
- The composite score for all state tests increased from 75.5 in 2009 to 76.4 percent in 2010.
- The statewide ISAT composite score increased from 79.8 in 2009 to 80.9 in 2010 and the statewide PSAE score remained unchanged at 53.0.
ISBE has produced the School Report Card since 1986 for every public school and district in Illinois. State report cards have been produced since 2002 and are required by the federal No Child Left Behind law.
One district, Eureka Community Unit District 140, was removed from improvement status and the eight schools that were removed from improvement status are:
|
School |
District |
|
Carlinville Middle School |
Carlinville CUSD 1 |
|
Disney Elementary Magnet School |
City of Chicago School District 299 |
|
Emge Junior High School |
Harmony Emge School District 175 |
|
Galileo Elementary Math & Science Academy |
City of Chicago School District 299 |
|
Gavin South Junior High School |
Gavin School District 37 |
|
Gregory Math & Science Elementary School |
City of Chicago School District 299 |
|
Lombard Junior High School |
Galesburg CUSD 205 |
|
Veterans Memorial Middle School |
Cook County School District 130 |
The nine districts that are in improvement status but will not advance to further sanctions because they made AYP this year are:
|
District |
|
Auburn CUSD 10 |
|
Central CUSD 4 |
|
Chester CUSD 139 |
|
East Alton SD 13 |
|
Geneseo CUSD 228 |
|
Princeton ESD 115 |
|
Putnam County CUSD 535 |
|
Rhodes SD 84-5 |
|
River Bend CUSD 2 |
The 55 schools that will not advance to further sanctions because they made AYP are:
|
School |
District |
|
Booth Tarkington Elementary School |
Wheeling CCSD 21 |
|
Calvin Coolidge Middle School |
Peoria SD 150 |
|
Carlyle Junior High School |
Carlyle CUSD 1 |
|
Colin Powell Middle School |
ESD 159 |
|
Community H S Dist 99 - North High School |
CHSD 99 |
|
Dongola Junior High School |
Dongola USD 66 |
|
Dorris Intermediate School |
Collinsville CUSD 10 |
|
Eldorado Elementary School |
Eldorado CUSD 4 |
|
Frederick School |
Grayslake CCSD 46 |
|
Fremont Intermediate School |
Fremont SD 79 |
|
Garvy J Elementary School |
City of Chicago SD 299 |
|
Gavin Central School |
Gavin SD 37 |
|
Genoa-Kingston Middle School |
Genoa Kingston CUSD 424 |
|
Glacier Ridge Elementary School |
Crystal Lake CCSD 47 |
|
Greenbrook Elementary School |
Keeneyville SD 20 |
|
Haines Elementary School |
City of Chicago SD 299 |
|
Heritage Middle School |
Berwyn South SD 100 |
|
Herrin C U S D 4 Elementary School |
Herrin CUSD 4 |
|
Holmes Junior High School |
Community Cons SD 59 |
|
Hufford Junior High School |
Joliet PSD 86 |
|
Indian Trail Junior High School |
Addison SD 4 |
|
Jane Addams Middle School |
Valley View CUSD 365U |
|
Jefferson Elementary School |
DeKalb CUSD 428 |
|
Jonathan Turner Junior High School |
Jacksonville SD 117 |
|
Lincoln Elementary School |
Rochelle CCSD 231 |
|
Lincoln Middle School |
Berwyn North SD 98 |
|
Lowell-Longfellow Elementary School |
Harvey SD 152 |
|
Marquardt Middle School |
Marquardt SD 15 |
|
Mary Endres Elementary School |
Woodstock CUSD 200 |
|
Mount Greenwood Elementary School |
City of Chicago SD 299 |
|
Naperville Central High School |
Naperville CUSD 203 |
|
North Elementary School |
SD 45 DuPage County |
|
North Intermediate Center of Education |
Wabash CUSD 348 |
|
Oak Prairie Junior High School |
Will County SD 92 |
|
Oakwood Grade School |
Oakwood CUSD 76 |
|
Oblong Elementary School |
Oblong CUSD 4 |
|
Otis P Graves Elementary School |
Summit SD 104 |
|
Parkland School |
McHenry CCSD 15 |
|
Pierce Elementary International Studies School |
City of Chicago SD 299 |
|
Peoria Heights Grade School |
Peoria Heights CUSD 325 |
|
Pepper Ridge Elementary School |
McLean County USD 5 |
|
Rhodes Elementary School |
Rhodes SD 84-5 |
|
Roodhouse Elementary |
North Greene CUSD 3 |
|
Scales Mound High School |
Scales Mound CUSD 211 |
|
South Elementary School |
Cook County SD 62 |
|
Stevenson School |
East Maine SD 63 |
|
Timber Ridge Middle School |
Plainfield SD 202 |
|
Timber Trails Elementary School |
Elgin SD U-46 |
|
Viking School |
Gurnee SD 56 |
|
Virden Middle School |
Virden CUSD 4 |
|
Virginia Lake Elementary School |
Palatine CCSD 15 |
|
Von Steuben Middle School |
Peoria SD 150 |
|
Waters Elementary School |
City of Chicago SD 299 |
|
Wauconda Grade School |
Wauconda CUSD 118 |
|
West Richland High School |
West Richland CUSD 2 |
Schools and districts are placed into improvement status when they do not make AYP for two consecutive state testing cycles. After two years, schools and districts enter academic early warning status. Failing to make AYP for four consecutive years in the same subject area, schools and districts are in academic watch status. After a fifth calculation, a school enters restructuring planning and will implement that plan should it fail to make AYP for the sixth time. Federal sanctions can include offering school choice and its supplemental education services for schools in improvement and corrective action which receive Title I funds. State and federal requirements merge for schools in restructuring. Districts are charged with developing a restructuring plan for schools after not making AYP for the fifth calculations.
NCLB requires all states to measure each public school’s and district’s achievements and establish annual achievement targets for the state. The overreaching goal is for all students to meet or exceed standards in reading and mathematics by 2014. NCLB will consider re-authorization.
