In the 2010-2011 school year, all schools made adequate yearly progress.

A school's performance is based on "annual yearly progress," according to the same test results.

Three of the district's 15 schools achieved adequate yearly progress in 2009.

The act also requires that students and schools show "adequate yearly progress."

Various consequences for schools that do not make "adequate yearly progress" are included in the law.

Achieving, meaning the school has made adequate yearly progress for two or more years.

Columbus, after all, has failed to make "adequate yearly progress" in language arts.

At the same time, more than 950 of the top-rated schools failed to make adequate yearly progress under the federal law.

In California, about 3,200 of the 7,100 schools subject to the law failed to make adequate yearly progress, and 1,135 were "needing improvement."

These small changes may keep the District from being listed as having made adequate yearly progress, despite their high overall proficiency.