FCPS Reaches SOL Benchmarks, Falls Short on AYP
Four Oakton High feeder schools, half of county schools do not make annual federal goals
Though more than 90 percent of Fairfax County Public Schools students passed Virginia’s Standards of Learning test last school year, about half of all schools in the county did not meet testing goals laid out by the No Child Left Behind Act. Ninety-two percent students in the county earned a passing SOL score for mathematics, while 93 percent passed the reading test, according to the school system. But 94 of the 190 schools in the county did not meet adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals set by the No Child Left Behind Act, according to data recently released by the Virginia Department of Education — a 22 percent increase from the 52 schools that did not meet their progress goal last year. On Thursday, officials praised the school system’s …
