BREAKING NEWS:

Newport-Mesa Unified schools showed improvement across the board, according to state Academic Performance Index (API) growth and federal 2007 Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) results released Friday.

“We’re quite pleased and very encouraged with the results,” said Peggy Anatol, district assessment director.

API scores range from 200 to 1000, and are released in March. Friday’s API growth results show the school’s progress over the past academic year, and play a role in state funding and the federal AYP scores.

AYP scores are the bar the federal No Child Left Behind act sets for yearly progress, and determine which Title 1 (low-income) schools could be subject to sanctions.

Until today, seven Newport-Mesa schools were on NCLB’s program improvement track and three were on their first year of sanctions. Two showed adequate progress, while according to federal standards TeWinkle Middle School did not show enough, even with a 43 point increase in state API scores.

Newport-Mesa Unified showed a 13 point API increase.