Sixty percent generally scores you a D in class. And sadly, sixty percent of schools have met performance standards under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
State education officials say 40 percent of the state's public schools failed to meet those standards this year.
The test measures not only how a school's student body does as a whole, but also tracks subgroups such as non-English-speakers and special-education students.
A new report released by the state Department of Education says 406 of 987 schools failed to make "adequate yearly progress" under the federal law. That's down slightly from the 408 schools that didn't meet the standards last year.
The schools on this year's list include some prestigious ones, like Greenwich High School, West Hartford's Hall High School and Glastonbury High School.
According to the Hartford Courant, the benchmarks measured by No Child Left Behind are based on the proportion of students achieving proficiency or better on the Connecticut Mastery Test and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test.
Problem is those standards continuing getting higher year after year.
