One of the most important questions I get as a realtor when showing homes to families concerns the neighborhood schools. How are they ranked, how many children per teacher, what were the assessment scores, etc.?
This week the NJ Department of Education announced the 2009 AYP Results and releases the Statewide Score Summaries.
Schools throughout the state were tested for student proficiency in language, math and science. “Almost 64 percent of the 2,222 New Jersey schools in which tests were administered in the spring of 2009 met the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards mandated under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), state Department of Education officials announced today. Finally, Assistant Commissioner Gantwerk noted that DOE has implemented several programs to work with with teachers and administrators to improve the learning environments in schools that have struggled in the past. ‘Next year, New Jersey will have the data base available to allow us to calculate an individual student growth rate, which will give us greater information on the performance of individual students and schools,’ the Assistant Commissioner said.
Go to http://www.state.nj.us/education/news/2010/0114ayp.htm for more information how the testing is administered and how a school’s “grade” is determined.
To see how a NJ elementary school or high school did, check out http://www.nj.gov/education/schools/achievement/2010/ or http://www.app.com/article/20100114/NEWS/100114062/Newly-released-state-reports-show-drop-in-math-reading-scores.
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