SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
PRESENTATION
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SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM
Dale Minge Principal
Mary Stephens Jason Saari Mary Clark Dennis
Baker Barbara Lehman Tonia Bianco Kortney Palmer
Diane Tilgner Kathy Easterling Linda Cheek Sarah
Cooper Suzanne Yanders Harriet Bright Monica Leach
Dianne Gordon Chairperson
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MISSION STATEMENT

• Pittsboro Elementary School will prepare
  self-sufficient,
• life-long learners by providing
• a developmentally appropriate integrated
  curriculum taught by a caring and enthusiastic
  staff in an environment conducive to learning for
  all students.

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BASIC FACTS ABOUT PES

• School enrollment 515 (not including pre-k)
• One teacher is serving our school as a Visiting
  Instructional Faculty (VIF) member
• 100 of our Teacher Assistants are Highly
  Qualified
• We have 24 regular homerooms
• Two Exceptional Education self-contained
  homerooms
• One Pre-School program
• 23 staff members are certified bus drivers

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TEACHER EXPERIENCE

• 36.4 (up from 35) of our teachers have earned a
  Masters Degree
• We have 5 (up from 4) teachers with National
  Board Certification
• We have 2 teachers in process of earning their
  NBTS
• We also have 3 teachers in process of earning
  their
• Master Degrees
• 18 teachers have their Mentor Certification

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OUR changing school population
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Our overall school population has dipped slightly
from 527 to 515, thats still a total of 60
students (3 more classrooms) in 5 years.
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OUR STUDENT POPULATION
10.7 are Hispanic
21.6.3 (down from 23.3) are African American
59 are White
4.8 are Multi-racial (down from 6.1)
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Our AIG population has grown as well.
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Our Hispanic population surprisingly only grew
two tenths of one percent in 07-08 to 10. .
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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
GOALS
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GOAL AREAS

• High Student Performance
• Healthy Students In Safe, Orderly, and Caring
  Schools
• Quality Teachers, Administrators,
• and Staff
• Strong Family, Community, and Business Support
• Effective and Efficient Operations

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• We did not meet our expected academic growth in
  the NCDPI
• Accountability Model
• School with no recognition
• 68.5 of students passed the
• EOGs
• 8/9 NCLB reading subgroups
• met the standards

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY cont.

• 79.8 of our third graders were proficient in
  reading on the EOG test
• 82.2 of our fourth graders were proficient in
  reading on the EOG test
• 74.1 of our third graders were proficient in
  math
• 66.4 of our fourth graders were proficient in
  math
• Our subgroups that did not make adequate yearly
  progress were economically disadvantaged in
  reading and math and our African American
  students in math.
• Substantial increase in our first and second
  grade population that qualify for our ITS Reading
  Program

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Digging deeper Within the data

• Our African American students had a dramatic rise
  of proficiency of 16.8 to 80.8 in reading
• Our white students also went from 87.2 to 94.75
  proficient in reading
• 74.1 of our third graders were proficient in
  math
• 66.4 of our fourth graders were proficient in
  math
• However 84 our white students demonstrated
  proficiency in math as compared with 49 of our
  African American students.

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Additional Facts

• Our subgroups that did not make adequate yearly
  progress were our economically disadvantaged
  students in reading and math and our African
  American students in math.
• We have had a substantial increase in our first
  and second grade population that qualify for our
  ITS Reading Program