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By ESTHER K. SMITH
News staff writer
October 14, 2006
Hood River County School District Superintendent Pat Evenson-Brady
had some good news to share at Wednesday’s school board meeting:
The Oregon Department of Education AYP report card for Hood
River schools shows seven of the nine schools earning an overall
rating of “Strong.”
“This is our district’s best-ever showing on these report
cards,” she said. “Congratulations to all the staff — it takes
everyone working together to produce these results: from the bus
barn to the district office; from the classrooms to the kitchen;
from the custodial staff to the administrators; from the school
board to the parents and students.”
She pointed out that the results are even more positive when
considering that all of our schools are “High Poverty Schools”
and 30 percent of our students are in ELL programs, compared to
10.3 percent for the state average. ELL stands for English
Language Learner: students whose primary language is not
English.
Other positive results she highlighted include:
The percentage of TAG students meeting or exceeding the
benchmarks improved between 2004 and 2006 in English/Language
Arts by 10 percentage points (56 percent to 66 percent) and in
Math by 19 points (54 percent to 73 percent).
The percentage of all students meeting or exceeding the
benchmarks improved from 49 percent in 2005 to 63 percent in
2006 (14 percentage points).
The percentage of Hispanic students meeting or exceeding the
benchmarks improved by nine percentage points in
English/Language Arts (38 percent to 49 percent) and in Math (54
percent to 63 percent) from 2004 to 2006.
The percentage of HRCSD students meeting or exceeding the
benchmarks is above the state rate in reading in grades 5, 8 and
10 and in math in all grades except 10th.
Twenty-nine percent of Hood River Valley High School graduates
earned a Certificate of Initial Mastery, up from 23 percent in
2004.
Attendance district-wide was 94.1 percent; the state average was
93 percent.
Cascade Locks School showed improvement in the percentage of
students meeting the benchmarks from 2004 to 2006.
“This means that some of the stuff we’re doing is making a
difference,” Evenson-Brady told the school board.
According to the ODE Web site, the No Child Left Behind Act
requires the annual determination of whether schools, districts,
and states have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward the
goal of having all students meet rigorous state academic
standards by the 2013-14 school year.
To view the AYP report cards, visit:
www.ode.state.or.us/data/reportcard/reports.aspx |
