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The Glascock County Consolidated School K-12 is located in Gibson, Georgia. Gibson is the county seat for Glascock County. Glascock County is one of the smallest counties in the state, with a population of just over 2,500. The school population ranges from 600-625. A staff of 40 teachers serves grades K - 12.

Title I, Distinguished District

Glascock County was recognized as a 2006 Title I Distinguished District for school systems with fewer than 2,000 students. The Title I Distinguished District program recognizes and honors local school districts that have made the greatest gains in the percent of Economically Disadvantaged students meeting or exceeding state standards on assessments administered in the previous school year compared to assessments administered in the current school year.
Each year, four school districts receive the award. School districts must meet the following criteria:

· One school district with a student population over 10,000 (Forsyth County)

· One school district with a student population of 4,000 – 9,999 (Tift County)

· One school district with a student population of 2,000 – 3,999 (Lamar County)

· One school district with a student population under 2,000 (Glascock County)

Honored school districts receive a certificate of recognition, a $50,000 monetary award, and are honored at the Georgia Department of Education annual Schools of Excellence Celebration hosted by the State Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

AYP is one of the cornerstones of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). AYP requires schools to meet standards in three areas: Test Participation (for both Mathematics and Reading/English Language Arts), Academic Performance (for both Mathematics and Reading/English Language Arts), and a Second Indicator (graduation rate and attendance).

In defining AYP, each state sets the minimum levels of improvement, based on student performance on state standardized tests, that school districts and schools must achieve within time frames specified in law in order to meet the 100% proficiency goal. These levels of improvement are known as Annual Measurable Objectives (AMO) to ensure that all student groups, schools, school districts, and the State as a whole reach this goal by 2013-2014.

Georgia's plan for AYP allows flexibility in how schools can demonstrate AMO. There are four ways:

1. direct comparison of student performance to AMO;
2. confidence interval;
3. multiyear averaging and;
4. safe harbor.

Georgia uses the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) as the AYP assessment tool for the elementary and middle school grades, the Enhanced Georgia High School Graduation Test (EGHSGT) for high school, and the Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA) for the most severely cognitively impaired students.