| Nashville Schools Board of Education Reviews | | | | But many schools did not receive a rating of |
| Adequate Yearly Progress Results | | | | Good Standing or even the same rating as last |
| Every year, every school district in Tennessee | | | | year. Many of these schools received a lower |
| must examine its performance from the pervious | | | | rating than previously. This indicates that there are |
| school year. This summer Nashville Schools had to | | | | still lots of areas that still need improvement. |
| do this as well. The Nashville Schools' Board of | | | | Nashville Schools has made the commitment to |
| Education, which included both the outgoing | | | | strive for every school to receive a Good |
| members from 2005-2006 and the incoming | | | | Standing rating. Each summer the Nashville |
| members from 2006-2007, reviewed the results | | | | Schools' Board of Education meets to determine |
| from the Tennessee Adequate Yearly Progress. | | | | what steps can be taken to improve the coming |
| The results will help to pinpoint for Nashville | | | | school year's scores. The difficulty is that there |
| Schools those areas that have improved and | | | | are a variety of factors that can influence the |
| where continued progress is needed. Nashville | | | | rating. A small adjustment in one area could affect |
| Schools had both remarkable achievements in | | | | the overall standing. With this in mind the Board |
| some areas and areas that continue to be a | | | | tries to find a way to make every school a |
| challenge. This is the third year that the majority | | | | school that rates Good Standing. |
| of schools in the Nashville Schools have received a | | | | One of the biggest concerns for the Nashville |
| rating of Good Standing, the highest rating that | | | | Schools' Board of Education is the size of the |
| can be given. The remaining schools had moved | | | | District. Nashville Schools currently has around |
| either up or down from the previous year. The | | | | 74,000 students and must provide educational |
| number of schools in Good Standing was 81 which | | | | opportunities that meet the needs of this student |
| is the same number as last year. | | | | population. Nashville School District includes both |
| Possibly the biggest gain this year for Nashville | | | | Nashville and Davidson Counties, so there are |
| Schools is that some of the schools categorized | | | | logistic concerns also. Nashville Schools are very |
| as high poverty schools received Good Standing | | | | confident about how this school year will proceed. |
| ratings. Two schools Kirkpatrick and Napier | | | | The Nashville Schools Board of Education is a nine |
| Elementary Schools achieved a Good Standing | | | | member body that is elected at the end of every |
| rating for the first time since the Tennessee | | | | school year composed of educators, community |
| Adequate Yearly Progress was established. These | | | | leaders and administrators. The members are |
| two schools are two of the highest poverty | | | | elected in a public vote by the citizens of the |
| schools in Nashville School District. There ratings | | | | Nashville School District. The Board believes that |
| reflect the effort that the students, teachers, | | | | there is a real potential for all the schools to gain |
| parents and principals put in last school year. | | | | ratings of Good Standing by summer of 2007. |