Educational Improvement and Assistance
Title I Blue Ribbon Schools
Overview
The U.S. Department of Education established the No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program to honor those elementary and secondary schools in the United States that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap or whose students achieve at very high levels. The program recognizes and presents as models both public and private elementary and secondary schools that meet either of two assessment criteria.
First, it recognizes schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds and have dramatically improved student performance to high levels in reading (language arts or English) and mathematics on state assessments or assessments referenced against national norms in at least the highest grade tested. Second, it recognizes schools, regardless of their demographics, that are in the top 10 percent of schools as measured by state tests in both reading (language arts or English) and mathematics or that score in the top 10 percent on assessments referenced against national norms at a particular grade in at least the highest grade tested.
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Blue Ribbon Criteria Selection
- Schools with at least 40 of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds that dramatically improve student performance on state tests.
- Schools whose students, regardless of background, achieved in the top 10 on state tests.
- Private schools that achieve in the top 10 in the nation.
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Funding Source
- Title I, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act
- Administrative Funding
| For more information contact: |
| Rosemary Enlow |
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Education Program Consultant
Rosemary.Enlow@la.gov
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225-342-3381 Fax
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