NEAH BAY — Neah Bay School remains on a list of schools identified by the state as “needing improvement.”
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction last week named 185 schools statewide to the list — up from 156 schools last year.
Neah Bay School was the only one identified from the North Olympic Peninsula.
While the Cape Flattery School District school has been on the needing-improvement list since 2002, the state’s preliminary calculations showed it made “adequate yearly progress” last school year.
The school must achieve adequate yearly progress for two straight years to get off the list.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the state must determine whether schools and districts are making sufficient gains on statewide performance goals.
These goals, which have grown more rigorous in recent years, now include standardized test scores, attendance figures and graduation rates.
