Tahlequah Public Schools

No Child Left Behind Act 

Annual Report Card 2004-2005

Parents and/or guardians will find the Tahlequah Public Schools’ 2004-2005 Annual Report Card document following this explanation.The No Child Left Behind legislation requires that districts notify parents annually of the components included in the Annual Report Card.The data in this report card reflects student academic performance during the 2004-2005 school year.

Tahlequah Public Schools’ students met the performance benchmarks for reading and mathematics for all subgroups for the 2004-2005 school year.The district met all other performance indicators including attendance rate, graduation rate, and the percent of students tested which must be at least 95%.The district of Tahlequah Public Schools met Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP for the 2004-2005 school year!

AYP or Adequate Yearly Progress requires that ALL students meet ALL performance targets and is an all or nothing designation.Every school site in the district made AYP. 

The Annual Report Card provides testing results for each grade level tested which included 3^rd grade, 4^th grade, 5^th grade, 8^th grade and End of Instruction or EOI results at the secondary level.The 2005 testing results included all students tested (highly and nonhighly mobile) for each of the student groups.State results and district trend data are also included by grade level tested.

Tahlequah Public Schools’ 3^rd and 4^th grade regular students performed above the state average in both reading and math.Our 5^th grade regular students scored above the state average in reading, while 8^th grade regular students performed below the state in both reading and math.TahlequahHigh School regular students scored below the state on the English II and Algebra 1 EOIs in 2005.
 
 

The last component indicated in the Annual Report Card is the professional qualifications of the teachers in the Tahlequah Public Schools District and the state.97% of the teachers in Tahlequah Public Schools who taught in the core academic subjects during the 2004-2005 school year were considered Highly Qualified.The state has developed a rubric which includes whether or not a teacher has tested in their certification area, certification, years of experience, and other components that determine if a teacher is Highly Qualified.

 
 

If you have questions regarding this report card, contact Lisa Presley, Director of Curriculum, at 918-458-4100, ext. 23.