Amended Report Raises Number of Gwinnett Schools Making AYP

Georgia amended its 2011 Adequate Yearly Progress report, raising the percentage of Gwinnett County schools that made the goal by about three points to 82.5 percent.

Four schools -- Creekland Middle, McConnell Middle, Duluth High, and Ferguson Elementary -- are now considered to have made AYP. They weren't on the first list released in the summer.

The amended report by the Georgia Department of Education included appeals, summer graduates and summer retest scores for standardized tests such as CRCT.

"This means that in a year when state standards rose, 82.5 percent of Gwinnett County’s public schools met the state’s accountability goals," the county schools system spokesman, Jorge Quintana, said in a statement.

Berkmar High School and Hopkins Elementary were the Lilburn schools among the four in the county to face consequences for failing to make AYP for a second year in a row.

Berkmar High is offering Public School Choice (student transfers) and Title 1 funded (Supplemental Educational Services) as correctional actions.

Hopkins Elementary is offering Public School Choice.