High school earns passing AYP grade

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Mountain Home High School has passed the Annual Yearly Progress, or AYP, standards.

It marks the first time the high school has cleared that hurdle, part of the No Child Left Behind law, and all it took was a little mathematics.

Under AYP, schools are evaluated in 41 different demographic categories, provided they have at least 34 students who qualify in a category. Otherwise, a category isn't counted, which is why smaller schools have a tendency to pass AYP easier than larger schools. Mountain Home High School is large enough that it usually qualifies to be rated in all 41 demographic categories.

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