Mount Vernon touts school improvements
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- September
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The Mount Vernon City School District and its two middle schools have been listed as institutions in Good Standing, after a total of five years of being cited for Needing Improvement.
Both the District and AB Davis Middle School were placed on the NYS Education Department’s Needing Improvement list for five years. Longfellow Middle School was removed from the list earlier this year after more than two years of being designated as A School in Need of Improvement.
In order to be a school in Good Standing benchmarks must be met in three areas: English, Math and Science for K-8 or Cohort 4-year Graduation Rate for High Schools. Those benchmarks also include a Participation criterion and a Performance criterion.
New York State has several accountability measures for schools and districts to track Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Failure to make AYP for two years in a row results in a school or a district being placed on an improvement list. A school and district must make AYP for two consecutive years to be removed from improvement status.
[Sept. 8 press release from the Mount Vernon School District.]
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