No Child Left Behind is a 2001 federal law that established a new way of looking at schools that receive federal money. The law uses test scores to determine whether all groups of students are reaching required levels of performance in reading and math.

Schools that meet 100 percent of their targets are said to have made Adequate Yearly Progress. But if any single group of students misses the test score targets, a school does not make Adequate Yearly Progress and can face increasingly harsh sanctions.

In Kentucky, the results come from annual statewide tests. Schools must make sure all subgroup populations ­— white, African-American, low-income and students who receive special education or English as a second language services — meet their goals.

Lawmakers did away with CATS in 2009; a new system is due out in 2012. In the meantime, Kentucky is using an interim testing system for accountability purposes.

Fayette County is committed to both the spirit of and compliance with No Child Left Behind. But more than that, we are committed to making sure that every single child in our school district reaches high levels of success. The value of No Child Left Behind is that it gives us the kind of data we need to identify areas of concern and focus on schools that need attention. 

2009 reports

State | District | Schools

Fayette County's AYP results

2008:

District | Summary | Schools

2007:

District | Schools

Archives 

The Kentucky Department of Education has posted reports from previous years.