Schools

3 Marietta Schools Miss Target

Marietta Middle, Marietta Charter and Dunleith Elementary schools did not achieve statewide standards after reaching them for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Three Marietta schools failed to meet 2010-11 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) indicators released by the Georgia Department of Education on Thursday.

Marietta Middle, the former Marietta Charter and Dunleith Elementay school did not achieve statewide standards after reaching them for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The charter school closed this year.

AYP which measures schools according to a number of factors, including test participation, graduation, attendance rates and the performance of specific groups, including ethnicity and English language proficiency.

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School officials were quick to point out that for some schools that didn't make the grade, it was a very close call.

For example, nearby Wheeler High School graduated 84.7 percent of its seniors, and would have made the required 85 percent threshold under AYP had one more senior received a diploma. Last year the graduation rate was 80 percent for high schools.

"Our AYP results indicate that Marietta Middle School did not make AYP because although their Students with Disabilities (SWD) are making progress, that subgroup's performance in English/Language Arts did not meet standards. Similarly, Dunleith Elementary did not make AYP because their African-American students performance in Mathematics did not meet standards," Superintendent Emily Lembeck said. 

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"Although AYP standards continue to get consistently more difficult each year, we will be persistent in our goal to have all students not only meet standards but exceed them as well."

Mathematics and English/language arts measurements at the elementary and middle school levels were also raised this year.

Marietta has 12 schools in its system.

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