State BOE releases ABC results

Most Rockingham County schools met expected growth for the 2007-08 school year, but just one in four high schools did, according to the ABCs of Public Education.
A school’s ABCs growth status is determined by its growth calculation and its change ratio—a measure of the percent of students meeting individual growth targets, according to a news release from Rockingham County schools.
In Rockingham County, all 16 elementary schools, all four middle schools, the one alternative school, and the district as a whole met expected growth.
Rockingham County High School was the lone high school to meet expected growth.
Schools that exceeded the growth expectations set by the state are considered to have met high growth, the news release said. Ten out of 16 elementary schools and two out of four middle schools in Rockingham County met high growth.
A state release said more than half—55.2 percent—of North Carolina’s public schools posted high academic growth in 2007-08 as measured by the state’s ABCs of Public Education accountability model, according to results presented to the State Board of Education today. Another 26.8 percent earned expected academic growth under the model.