AUGUSTA – Middle schools in Livermore Falls and Paris have failed to meet federal standards for all students for four years in a row because not enough disabled students achieved grade level in certain subjects.

There are 24 other middle schools in Maine on the same list, Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said Monday.

Under the federal 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, states must name schools that fail to meet reading and math standards for all.

Gendron said the state’s goal is to have all schools meeting yearly expected progress by 2014.

There are several lists for schools. The worst is “failed to meet standards” for three or more years in a row. The best is “adequate yearly progress” for all students. Another is “monitor” because not all students achieved expectations, but not for several years in a row.

SAD 36’s Livermore Falls Middle School and SAD 17’s Oxford Hills Middle School will get extra attention from the state Department of Education “to see what’s happening” to students not meeting standards, “and how else we might reach them,” Gendron said.

Even though Oxford Hills does not face sanctions, “that doesn’t mean we’re not working on it,” Curriculum Director Kathy Elkins said Monday. “We’re working very diligently to get off the list.”

To help students with disabilities, Oxford Hills has provided teachers with staff development, Elkins said. And students with disabilities are getting extra tutoring during study periods.

Efforts to reach Livermore Falls educators on Monday were unsuccessful.

Two Lewiston-Auburn schools that did not meet standards for all are Webster in Auburn and Montello in Lewiston.

Montello did not meet math standards for enough of the 17 fourth-graders with disabilities, said George Veilleux, Lewiston’s assistant director of curriculum. The superintendent’s office will be working with Montello to help faculty and students improve those scores, George Veilleux, Lewiston’s assistant director of curriculum, said.

Webster last year did not meet reading standards for enough students with disabilities. “A host of strategies are being employed” to make improvements, Assistant Superintendent Tom Morrill said.

The Auburn Middle School achieved academic standards in 2005-06, but not the year before. That placed the school on a “monitor” list.

While educators dislike that the No Child Left Behind came without funding, it has helped raise the bar for all, Morrill said.

“Would we be doing these things without No Child Left Behind? Yes we would,” Morrill said. “This just creates another public” way to make schools accountable, he said.

High school results will be released later.