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Washington County Public Schools

Washington County Public Schools. Building on Success. Agenda. Welcome and Introductions: Clear Spring Elementary – Shari Palm Conococheague Elementary – Nicole Paylor Clear Spring Middle – Deron Crawford Clear Spring High – James Aleshire Performance Profile Question and Answers.

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Washington County Public Schools

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  1. Washington County Public Schools Building on Success

  2. Agenda • Welcome and Introductions: Clear Spring Elementary – Shari Palm Conococheague Elementary – Nicole Paylor Clear Spring Middle – Deron Crawford Clear Spring High – James Aleshire • Performance Profile • Question and Answers

  3. Performance Profile of Clear Spring Area Schools • Twenty percent of last years seniors passed at least one AP exam during high school. • Fifty percent of the students taking AP exams scored a three or above.

  4. Student performance in reading, math and graduation rate were above state achievement targets • Ninety-four percent of the 2011 seniors passed the English HSA, ninety-five percent passed Algebra and Biology.

  5. SAT reading scores increased by twenty points. • SAT writing scores increased by eighteen points.

  6. SAT annual composite score increased by thirty-one points from 1509 to 1540. • The annual drop-out rate was under two percent.

  7. Clear Spring Middle met AYP for all subgroups in math and reading, increasing the percent proficient in all four reading subgroups. • Clear Spring Elementary met AYP in all eight subgroups for math and reading.

  8. Conococheague Elementary School met AYP for all eight subgroups in math and reading.

  9. We should celebrate the strength of our students and this community’s families.

  10. Three Immediate Challenges • To few students taking or passing the most rigorous coursework • Middle School reading levels • Elementary reading levels

  11. Literacy as the new “Civil Right.” • To participate and do well. • Literacy as the underpinning of our efforts • At the heart of nearly every metric we value

  12. If a child is not reading at grade level by the time he finishes third grade, he will never catch up.” Dibble, Reading First, Executive Director, N.Y. Times, 2011

  13. Students who are not reading at grade level in third grade were four times less likely to graduate by 19 then proficient readers. The consequences of not reading at grade level are even worse for children in poverty, who are 13 times less likely to graduate than proficient readers who are not poor. Donald Hernandez, Hunter College, City University of New York

  14. In many ways the success the district and the schools in the Clear Spring area have given “birth” to a new set of challenges. Building on Success

  15. We must keep pace with more rapidly improving schools. • We must close and eliminate achievement gaps.

  16. We must improve on our graduation rates. • We must increase the number of students taking Honors and AP courses and we must increase ACT and SAT participation and success.

  17. We must expand Career and Technology Education program opportunities, updated to reflect the realities of the job market, while strengthening the belief that there is dignity in all work.

  18. Thank you. Questions … Dr. Clayton Wilcox Superintendent of Schools wilcocla@wcps.k12.md.us 301.766.2816

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