No Child Left Behind
FCPS Releases Preliminary 2007-08 SOL Data: Results Show Steady Gains by Students
Students in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) improved their results on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) tests with higher pass rates for all subgroups this year compared with 2006-07 results, and more than 40 percent of all tests taken received a score of pass advanced, according to 2007-08 preliminary data released today by the Virginia Department of Education. Based on this data, the school division made adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) this year.
“English and mathematics performance have improved for all subgroups,” says FCPS Superintendent Jack D. Dale. “The scores also demonstrate that achievement gaps between White and Black students and White and Hispanic students are narrowing.”(See table 1.) The White-Black gap decreased in 9 of 11 end-of-course tests, and the White-Hispanic gap decreased in 5 of these tests compared with last year’s results.
SOL tests are part of a long-standing Virginia program of educational accountability and, since 2002, have been used to determine AYP for schools and school divisions under NCLB. In addition, 134 of the 190 FCPS schools made AYP this year, up from 119 schools last year.
Resources
- FCPS Releases Preliminary 2007-08 SOL Data: Results Show Steady Gains by Students (08/28/08)
- Virginia School Report Card: a service of the Virginia Department of Education that provides information about student achievement, accreditation, and other subjects for individual schools, school divisions, and the entire state.
- For more information about the federal NCLB law, visit http://www.nclb.gov/ .
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