Eleven of Roanoke’s 24 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress for the 2009-10 school year, according to data released this morning by the Virginia Department of Education.

For a school to make AYP, 81 percent of students and demographic subgroups must have demonstrated proficiency in reading and 79 percent in math. Subgroups include: white, black, Hispanic, limited English proficient, students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged. AYP is a component of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation.    

Garden City, Highland Park and Wasena elementary schools failed to make AYP after at least two consecutive years of meeting or exceeding the benchmarks and Monterey Elementary, Huff Lane Intermediate, Westside Elementary and Round Hill Primary (Montessori) schools made AYP for the first time in at least two years.

None of the city’s middle or high schools made AYP.

Hurt Park Elementary School will be required to “develop alternative governance plans while offering transfers and tutoring and continuing to implement corrective action,” state education officials said.

In Roanoke County, 23 of 26 schools made AYP. Cave Spring, Hidden Valley and Northside middle schools did not.

Radford and Salem are two of only seven divisions in the state in which all schools made AYP. Statewide, 6 of 10 schools met or exceeded AYP benchmarks. In Floyd County, all schools made AYP but the division did not.