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AN ANNUAL REPORT CARD ON OUR SCHOOLS

Both Missouri and Kansas have established curriculum standards that set out the concepts and knowledge areas each student should learn at each grade level.

To measure what students have absorbed, both states require assessment tests in math and communication arts (reading in Kansas).

The information found on this Web site explores the tests given in the spring of 2007 and how students performed across Missouri and Kansas and area schools and school districts.

The results of those tests, in part, determine whether a district or school reaches “adequate yearly progress” or AYP as measured by the federal government under the No Child Left Behind Act.

This is the second year for this set of tests in both states. Grades 3 through 8 were tested in both math and communication arts as well as high school grades.

You will see changes from the way information was presented in previous years on this Web project.

It is easier, for example, to compare a school’s assessment scores to state and district averages. They’re all on the same page. Rather than going to a separate area for a school’s student makeup, readers can get this information by clicking on the “detail” link on the test scores page.

See which schools or districts did not make “adequate yearly progress,” or AYP, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the subgroups that failed to score high enough or make significant progress.

You can also learn basic information about an area school district in Kansas or Missouri in a short mini-profile, including Web addresses for more information.