School Report Card

Dear Parent/Guardian,

One of the benefits North Carolina public schools offer parents is transparency. Public school accountability is a standard practice for North Carolina going back to the early 1990s, and the North Carolina School Report Cards provide parents with information on such key issues as student performance, teacher experience, and school safety. Data is provided at the school, district, and state levels to enable parents to compare the performance of their student’s schools with others across the district and state.
Legislation (G.S. §115C-83.15) passed during the 2013 long session of the North Carolina General Assembly provides an additional measure of school performance in the form of School Performance Grades. Beginning with the 2013-14 school year, the annual North Carolina School Report Cards display a letter grade of A, B, C, D or F for each school in the state.
The School Performance Grades are based 80 percent on our school’s achievement score (student proficiency) and 20 percent on students’ academic growth. At the Institute for the Development of Young Leaders, our last scores are from the 2024-25 school year. Our students scored 52 in Reading grade score and 65 in Math grade score. We Exceeded Expected growth in both Reading and Math and had a growth score of 100!
The Institute for The Development of Young Leaders is #1 of all schools in NC for academic growth, we received a School Performance letter Grade of C for the 2024-25 school year. Although we are committed to improving this proficiency score, it is important to remember that no one single score or grade tells the whole story of a student, neither does it tell you everything about the performance of a school or the opportunities that our school has provided to all of our students. We are excited that we’ve exceeded expected growth and exceeded on our state requirement on all AYP goals. Showing a substantial Academic Growth of 100 and earning us the distinction of being ranked #1 in Academic Growth in the state of North Carolina.
Our teachers are working to differentiate learning by using Project Based Learning and standard mastery as our primary instructional delivery model. However, we also provide individualized approaches, teachers have received training on using small group instruction. They are using strategies like guided reading and small group instruction to provide intensive instruction on a daily basis in all core subjects to promote the development of the various components of reading proficiency to students.
We are still focused on building a stronger foundation in reading by using I-Ready which is a diagnostic and remediation tool. IReady allows us to diagnose the gaps and it provides foundational skills acquisition. Using this program teachers can assign reading levels and monitor progress to support mastery of increasingly complex text and math skills.
We hope you will closely follow your student’s academic progress and work with his or her teacher(s) to help ensure they stay on track academically. Working together as a team, we can improve not only how well our students are performing individually, but how our school is performing as a whole. There is nothing more important to administrators and teachers at The Institute for the Development of Young Leaders than ensuring that your student is ready for the next step in their academic career. I look forward to working with you to make sure your student is on track for success.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our School Performance Grade and how we plan to improve, please don’t hesitate to contact me, Yvette.Munroe@theidylschool.org or at 919-308-9731.

Sincerely,

Yvette Munroe CEO/Superintendent

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