Druid Hills Students Meet AYP Standards

Roughly 82 percent of students met or exceeded the federal benchmark set for yearly progress in math, according to test scores released by the Georgia Department of Education.

That is more than a 10 percent jump from the 2010 test scores that aim to gauge student achievment.

Druid Hills is one of only six DeKalb County high schools to meet Adequate Yearly Progress in 2011, one of several testing methods put into place by the federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.

On the math portion of the test, the black student sub group increased most dramatically from roughly 55 percent of students testing proficient or advanced in 2010 to almost 80 percent in 2011.

"I am so proud of our faculty and students who worked diligently to increase our pass rates in both math and English across all sub groups," Druid Hills principal Mindee Adamson wrote in an e-mail to parents.

The English scores for the high school increased from almost 90 percent of students testing proficient or advanced in 2010 to almost 92 percent of students that tested proficient or advanced in 2011.

and , both feeder schools for the high school, also met AYP in 2011.

The full AYP report for each school is available on the Georgia Department of Education website.