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The Commissioner of Education released the school-by-school grades for the 2006/07 school year and Lee County Public Schools continue to perform above state averages.

“I am extremely proud of our schools, teachers, principals, and administrators and very appreciative of their work and dedication to our students,” said Dr. James Browder, Superintendent of Schools.

Out of the 80 schools receiving a grade, 58 received an “A” or “B” – that’s 72%, as compared to the overall state percentage of 69%. Forty schools in Lee County achieved an “A” grade this year compared to 38 last year and just nine schools in 1999, the first year of school grading.

This year’s school grading included new criteria in the areas of Math and Science in addition to reading, math and writing standards used in the past.

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
A	9	19	17	22	28	33	35	38	40
B	5	8	8	20	20	12	13	23	18
C	34	30	31	13	10	16	13	15	18
D	8	0	1	2	0	1	6	1	4
F	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

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2006/07 Scores At-A-Glance:

57 schools (71%) graded earned an “A” or “B;”
8 schools increased one grade level; 3 schools increased two grade levels
No schools were rated as “F” in Lee County in the last two years.

“We know that the new criteria impacted our results and we will be looking very carefully school by school and subject by subject to ensure that we have plans and programs in place to address the needs of all our students,” Dr. Browder said.

Along with the school-by-school grades, the state also determined which schools successfully met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. Adequate Yearly Progress reports the progress of nine different groups of students in the areas of reading, math and writing based on FCAT 2006 results.

According to the NCLB legislation, the minimum standards for reading and math increase significantly from year to year. In 2006/07, 27 Lee County schools met the AYP criteria compared to 22 last year. When looking at the AYP data closely, 68 out of 88 schools (77 percent of schools) met 80 percent or more of the criteria set by the federal legislation.