The Weatherford Independent School District is sharing this information about the district and your child’s campus with you as part of Weatherford ISD’s obligations under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was first passed by Congress in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. The most recent reauthorization of this legislation is the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The primary function of NCLB is to close the achievement gap between groups of students by requiring greater accountability and offering increased flexibility in the use of funding. The NCLB Act affects almost every school district and charter school in the state.

This NCLB Report Card provides information for the the state, the district, and each of the district’s campuses for the 2008-2009 school year.

NCLB Report Cards for the state as a whole, all school districts and charter schools, and all campuses are also available on the Texas Education Agency’s NCLB web site at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=4638&menu_id=798.

Information on these report cards includes:

• Assessment results for the district and campuses in the aggregate and disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and economically disadvantaged showing two-year (2007-2008 and 2008-2009) trend data for each subject and grade tested:
  • by performance level,
  • with a comparison between annual objectives and actual performance for each student group, and
  • including the percentage of each group of students not tested.
• Graduation rates for secondary school students.
• Performance of school district and campuses on adequate yearly progress (AYP) measures.
• Number and names of Title I schools identified as in need of improvement, including the stage of improvement and AYP indicator missed by any schools identified for improvement. (Weatherford ISD has no campuses identified for improvement.)
• Professional qualifications of teachers in the district and campuses, including the percentage of teachers teaching with emergency or provisional credentials and the percentage of classes in the LEA and campuses that are not taught by highly qualified teachers, including a comparison between high- and low-poverty campuses within the district. All of Weatherford ISD’s teachers are highly qualified.

If you have difficulty accessing the information from the web site, hard copies of the reports are available at the district Federal Programs office located at the District Services Building or through the campus principal’s office.  If you have questions about the information, please contact Darryl Cross, Federal Programs Coordinator, at 817-598-2804, extension 1.