Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School Announces 2007 AYP Status

On July 17, 2007, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School was notified of its AYP status based on school year 2006-2007. For school year 2007-2008, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School’s AYP Status is School Improvement II.

In order to meet AYP, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School must meet targets in three main categories: Graduation Rate, Participation on the PSSA, and Performance on the PSSA.  Each category has a main target that all eligible subgroups must meet. Participation and Performance targets are further broken down into subgroups.  If any subgroup does not meet the target, the school is classified as not meeting the target overall. If any overall target is missed, the school is designated as not meeting AYP. For more information about AYP, click here.

This year, with all of the eligible subgroups, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School had a total of 23 targets to meet. (Total possible number of targets is 41). 

Of the 23 possible targets, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School met 14. An additional 6 targets were reached by meeting Safe Harbor, and 2 targets were reached by meeting the Pennsylvania Performance Index, for a total of 22/23 targets met. (To learn more about Safe Harbor and PPI, click here.) The school did not meet the overall target of Graduation Rate. You can see the chart of targets met and not met by AYP Charthere.

When a school does not meet AYP, they are given both supports and consequences. For Pennsylvania Leadership, it means that we will receive more support from the Department of Education to improve the school, and that the school will need to offer supplemental education services, such as tutoring.

A team spent a week in July at the Getting Results Governor’s Institute and has already written an extensive School Improvement Plan for 2007-2008. With our continuing efforts to partner with the PDE and the full implementation of this plan, we are confident that we will show significant progress this year.

Schools that make AYP in a year following a year where they did not make AYP are classified as Making Progress. Schools must make AYP for two years in order to be formally categorized as Made AYP. For a chart that shows the path of AYP status, click here.

All schools' AYP status is public information, and is now available on the Pennsylvania Department of Education's  public website. In addition, you can search individual districts and charter schools' results at the state's Academic Acheivement Report website at http://paayp.com.