Unlike Priority and Focus Schools, the US ED did not mandate the creation of Alert Schools. Unlike Priority and Focus Schools, which were named once, the state will identify Alert Schools each year. As a result, the GaDOE created three categories of Alert Schools that will receive the same level of state support as Focus Schools for three years, but they do not have to be Title I schools.
Per US ED guidelines, non-Title I schools were not identified as Priority or Focus schools. OR the school has the largest within-school achievement gap between highest- and lowest-achieving subgroups, or for high schools, the gap in graduation rates between subgroups.OR the school is receiving a federal School Improvement Grant (SIG).The graduation rate has been below 60% for the past two years,.The achievement of “all students” in 2010-11 is among the lowest 5% of Title I schools in Georgia, and the school did not make progress in aggregate achievement from the past year (2009-10),.The criteria for Priority and Focus Schools are described in the box below.įocus (must meet 1 or 2 criteria and not be identified as Priority) Using the criteria below, GaDOE named 78 Priority Schools and 156 Focus Schools. Per US ED guidelines, the GaDOE named 5% of Title I schools as Priority and 10% of Title I schools as Focus. Only Title I schools could receive either designation, and it will last for three years. The Priority designation focused on the performance of all students in a school, whereas the Focus designation emphasized within-school achievement gaps between subgroups.
Impact of Previous Programs & InitiativesĪs a part of Georgia's waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), GaDOE created a one-time designation of Priority and Focus Schools that would receive intensive state support for the next three years. Strategic Waivers School Systems (SWSS) Evaluation Single Statewide Accountability System (SSAS) Awards
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