Seventh-grader Tobias Lindell says he’s glad Alice Robertson Junior High School offers math tutoring — though he doesn’t always need it.

“I’m usually good at multiplication, but have trouble with fractions,” Tobias said during an after-school tutoring session to help make up homework.

Offering tutoring to students who want it — as well as need it — is one way schools seek to improve on state-defined performance targets in math and reading. Improved scores mean a school is making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in these key subjects.