Revising a glitch in the No Child Left Behind annual report has resulted in Warren East Middle School doing better than originally reported in August.

Stan Peterie, assessment coordinator for Warren County Schools, said the school was originally reported meeting only 10 of 12 targets, but after reviewing data input for the school, it was discovered that Warren East needed to make only 10 targets to begin with.

Essentially, Peterie said that a child must attend a school for 100 days of the school year to be considered a student at the school.

At least four students, who were all special needs children, were coded as Warren East students when they had not been there the required amount of time.

The difference of recoding the students to their appropriate schools meant Warren East did not have enough special education students to make up a sub-population that requires the two additional school targets of special ed reading and math to be met.

The data cleanup, conducted after the scores were already released, has meant Warren East met 100 percent of its Adequate Yearly Progress targets by fulfilling all 10.

The discovery means that 15 of Warren County’s 19 schools met all their goals.

Principal Beverly Dillard said she was glad to see the cleanup reflect her school’s hard work.

“We’re thrilled,” Dillard said. “We kind of knew we were (on target) before but just had to do some data cleanup and found out students accounted to us were not part of our accountability.”

Dillard said newsletters have been sent to all parents to make them aware of the amended report.

“We had been working on (the scores) for several months and after final data cleanup, were able to prove we were correct,” she said.

Superintendent Dale Brown said the past two years have revealed scores that must be adjusted just prior to being finalized.

While Brown said he is glad to see the school on target, it still bothers him that prior to the revision, the school and others were considered failing by the national standards.

“The thing that concerns me is that a school can meet 90 percent of its goals and are still considered a failure - there’s something wrong with that focus,” he said. “Unless you make 100 percent, you’re not recognized as successful.”

The other four schools that missed their targets all scored near the 90th percentile and just missed the 100 percent goal.

Warren Elementary School met 15 of its 16 targets by missing a point in reading by the free-lunch subgroup. Likewise, Drakes Creek Middle School made 12 of 13 targets after falling short a point in the disability reading subgroup.

Warren Central High School missed one of its targets in reading among black students and Warren East High School missed two of 10 targets.

The district as a whole met 23 of its 25 districtwide targets for a 92 percent success rate.