Application: 2006-2007, No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program (MS Word) s17
2006-2007 No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program
U.S. Department of Education
Cover Sheet
Type of School: (Check all that apply) [ x ] Elementary [ ] Middle [ ] High [ ] K-12 [ ] Charter
Name of Principal: Mr. Mahlon Carothers
(Specify: Ms., Miss, Mrs., Dr., Mr., Other) (As it should appear in the official records)
Official School Name Maple Valley Elementary
(As it should appear in the official records)
School Mailing Address: 501 S. 7th Street
(If address is P.O. Box, also include street address.)
Mapleton Iowa 51034-1138
City State Zip Code+4 (9 digits total)
County ____Monona______State School Code Number* 4033
Telephone ( 712 ) 881-1317 Fax ( 712 ) 881-1316
Web Address URL: www.maple-valley.k12.ia.us E-mail
I have reviewed the information in this application, including the eligibility requirements on page 2, and certify that to the best of my knowledge all information is accurate.
Date: ______
(Principal’s Signature)
Name of Superintendent* Dr. Steve Oberg
District Name Maple Valley Community School District Tel. ( 712 )881-1315 ext. 1001
I have reviewed the information in this application, including the eligibility requirements on page 2, and certify that to the best of my knowledge it is accurate.
Date______(Superintendent’s Signature)
Name of School Board
President/Chairperson Mr. Dale Wimmer
I have reviewed the information in this application, including the eligibility requirements on page 2, and certify that to the best of my knowledge it is accurate.
Date______
(School Board President’s/Chairperson’s Signature)
*Private Schools: If the information requested is not applicable, write N/A in the space.
PART I ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATION
The signatures on the first page of this application certify that each of the statements below concerning the school’s eligibility and compliance with U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) requirements is true and correct.
1. The school has some configuration that includes grades K-12. (Schools on the same campus with one principal, even K-12 schools, must apply as an entire school.)
2. The school has made adequate yearly progress each year for the past two years and has not been identified by the state as “persistently dangerous” within the last two years. To meet final eligibility, the school must meet the state’s adequate yearly progress requirement in the 2006-2007 school year.
3. If the school includes grades 7 or higher, it has foreign language as a part of its core curriculum.
4. The school has been in existence for five full years, that is, from at least September 2001 and has not received the No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon Schools award in the past five years.
5. The nominated school or district is not refusing OCR access to information necessary to investigate a civil rights complaint or to conduct a districtwide compliance review.
6. OCR has not issued a violation letter of findings to the school district concluding that the nominated school or the district as a whole has violated one or more of the civil rights statutes. A violation letter of findings will not be considered outstanding if OCR has accepted a corrective action plan from the district to remedy the violation.
7. The U.S. Department of Justice does not have a pending suit alleging that the nominated school or the school district as a whole has violated one or more of the civil rights statutes or the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
8. There are no findings of violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in a U.S. Department of Education monitoring report that apply to the school or school district in question; or if there are such findings, the state or district has corrected, or agreed to correct, the findings.
PART II DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
All data are the most recent year available.
DISTRICT (Questions 12 not applicable to private schools)
1. Number of schools in the district: ___1__Elementary schools
_____ Middle schools
_____ Junior high schools
___1_ High schools (whole-grade shared high school)
___1__Other (whole-grade shared middle school)
___3_ TOTAL
2. District Per Pupil Expenditure: $5056
Average State Per Pupil Expenditure: $4965
SCHOOL (To be completed by all schools)
3. Category that best describes the area where the school is located:
[ ] Urban or large central city
[ ] Suburban school with characteristics typical of an urban area
[ ] Suburban
[ ] Small city or town in a rural area
[ x ] Rural
4. 16 Number of years the principal has been in her/his position at this school.
If fewer than three years, how long was the previous principal at this school?
5. Number of students as of October 1 enrolled at each grade level or its equivalent in applying school only:
Grade / # of Males / # of Females / Grade Total / Grade / # of Males / # of Females / Grade TotalPreK / 7
K / 18 / 11 / 29 / 8
1 / 9 / 14 / 23 / 9
2 / 16 / 8 / 24 / 10
3 / 14 / 18 / 32 / 11
4 / 22 / 14 / 36 / 12
5 / 15 / 19 / 34 / Other
6
TOTAL STUDENTS IN THE APPLYING SCHOOL ® / 178
6. Racial/ethnic composition of 95% White
the school: 0 % Black or African American
1 % Hispanic or Latino
1 % Asian/Pacific Islander
3 % American Indian/Alaskan Native
100% Total
Use only the five standard categories in reporting the racial/ethnic composition of the school.
7. Student turnover, or mobility rate, during the past year: 7 %
[This rate should be calculated using the grid below. The answer to (6) is the mobility rate.]
(1) / Number of students who transferred to the school after October 1 until the end of the year / 9(2) / Number of students who transferred from the school after October 1 until the end of the year / 3
(3) / Total of all transferred students [sum of rows (1) and (2)] / 12
(4) / Total number of students in the school as of October 1 / 178
(5) / Total transferred students in row (3) divided by total students in row (4) / 0.0674
(6) / Amount in row (5) multiplied by 100 / 7
8. Limited English Proficient students in the school: 0.6 %
1 Total Number Limited English Proficient
Number of languages represented: 1
Specify languages: Spanish
9. Students eligible for free/reduced-priced meals: 44%
Total number students who qualify: 78
If this method does not produce an accurate estimate of the percentage of students from lowincome families, or the school does not participate in the federally supported lunch program, specify a more accurate estimate, tell why the school chose it, and explain how it arrived at this estimate.
10. Students receiving special education services: 14 %
25 Total Number of Students Served
Indicate below the number of students with disabilities according to conditions designated in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Do not add additional categories.
0 Autism 0 Orthopedic Impairment
0 Deafness 2 Other Health Impaired
0 Deaf-Blindness 13 Specific Learning Disability
2 Emotional Disturbance 7 Speech or Language Impairment
0 Hearing Impairment 0 Traumatic Brain Injury
1 Mental Retardation 0 Visual Impairment Including Blindness
0 Multiple Disabilities
11. Indicate number of fulltime and parttime staff members in each of the categories below:
12.
Number of Staff
Full-time Part-Time
Administrator(s) 1 0
Classroom teachers 9 0
Special resource teachers/specialists 5 0
Paraprofessionals 0 0
Support staff 6 0
Total number 21 0
13. Average school student-classroom teacher ratio, that is, the number of
students in the school divided by the FTE of classroom teachers, e.g., 22:1 20:1
13. Show the attendance patterns of teachers and students as a percentage. The student dropout rate is defined by the state. The student drop-off rate is the difference between the number of entering students and the number of exiting students from the same cohort. (From the same cohort, subtract the number of exiting students from the number of entering students; divide that number by the number of entering students; multiply by 100 to get the percentage drop-off rate.) Briefly explain in 100 words or fewer any major discrepancy between the dropout rate and the drop-off rate. Only middle and high schools need to supply dropout rates, and only high schools need to supply drop-off rates. Also explain a high teacher turnover rate.
2005-2006 / 2004-2005 / 2003-2004 / 2002-2003 / 2001-2002Daily student attendance / 96% / 96% / 95% / 96% / 95%
Daily teacher attendance / 91% / 90% / 91% / 92% / 91%
Teacher turnover rate / 0% / 0% / 0% / 0% / 0%
Student dropout rate (middle/high) / NA% / NA% / NA% / NA% / NA%
Student drop-off rate (high school) / NA% / NA% / NA% / NA% / NA%
PART III SUMMARY
“The board of education, staff, and volunteers of the Maple Valley and Anthon-Oto Community Schools shall be responsible for developing the intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and creative skills which will enable students to become productive, caring citizens in an ever changing world.”
The mission of Maple Valley schools encompasses all district buildings, including Maple Valley Elementary. All stakeholders in our school system are important factors determining the level of development our students reach, beginning with the parents. At Maple Valley elementary we recognize the value of families in the social, emotional and physical realms for all students, but especially for those birth to age three. Newly added in the fall of 2006 was an Early Childhood/Special Education Pre-School program with an ECSE licensed teacher. This program allows us to serve children age three to five in both a regular education and special education setting. As young children become school-ready, we know that supporting our families with an early childhood program helps our future students begin their intellectual journey in a school environment. Children in this program continue to become more adept with emotional, social, creative and physical skills. We are anxious to analyze performance data as these young children become primary grade students in our district. An additional service we are providing this year is a Wrap-Around day care program to assist families with parents who work hours beyond the regular school day. Families can take advantage of this grant-funded program that runs from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm which is safe and child-centered.
When children formally enter Maple Valley Elementary they are met with supportive, caring, well-educated staff members as well as loving support staff members. Families may choose to place their children in traditional single-grade classrooms, of which we have a Kindergarten through fifth grade. They may also choose K/1, 2/3 and 4/5 multi-age classrooms for their children. Their journey to becoming productive, caring citizens through our school system has begun! The elementary curriculum includes the areas of reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and technology. Add to this academic list the areas of vocal music, physical education, instrumental music, art, and Spanish and students are supplied with multiple opportunities to find their passions. Two Special Education teachers and three Title I Reading teachers are also on staff to assist students with special needs. Teachers and support staff work diligently every day to provide all the students with meaningful lessons geared toward developing intellectual and creative skills. Just one trip down any hallway will show a visitor that Maple Valley Elementary students are developing their intellectual, physical, emotional, social and creative skills.
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PART IV – INDICATORS OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS
1. Assessment Results:
Maple Valley Elementary student scores for math in the third grade in 2003 showed 55% of the students were proficient based on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. This has risen to 75% proficient in 2006. The fourth graders in 2003 had 75% proficient and by 2006 there were 86% of the fourth graders proficient in math based on the ITBS. Fifth graders in 2003 were proficient at a rate of 70% and in 2006 this increased to 91%, also based on the ITBS. Reading scores for third grade rose from 59% to 81% proficient from 2003 to 2006. Fourth grade reading scores, although not as dramatic, rose from 75% to 83% proficient. Fifth graders made the most impressive improvement in reading moving from 69% proficient in 2003 to 97% proficient in 2006.
Fourth grade data from 2003 through 2006 shows the students who qualify for free or reduced lunch are slightly below the entire group’s proficiency rate for both reading and math. Two years, 2004 and 2005, the free or reduced lunch subgroup matched the proficiency rate for reading based on the ITBS. The same subgroup scores for third and fifth grades are available for only 2006 and the same statement can be made for both reading and math except for one instance. In 2006 the free or reduced lunch subgroup in fifth grade showed a proficiency rate of 100%, which is higher than the entire group’s rate of 97% for reading.
An additional subgroup Maple Valley offers for comparison is White students. In reading the White students score within a 2 percent range of the entire group. This is true as well for reading scores in all three grade levels. The subgroups of White and Low SES are the only two comparisons made as additional subgroup populations fall below a total of 10 students. In an effort to maintain privacy we do not identify subgroups in which the data could possibly refer directly to a student.
Gender group scores for grades three, four, and five indicate there is an achievement gap. This gap however fluctuates with males out scoring females versed to females outscoring males between academic areas. This is the case with the 2005-06 3rd graders. Twenty-one percent of the male third graders scored at the advanced level in math, while 29% of the females scored at the advanced level in reading the same year. Fourth grade historical data shows that while males are as a group scoring higher than females in reading, there are more fourth grade females scoring at the advanced level than males. Math historical data for fourth graders shows nearly equal proficiency rates for males and females, however the most students scoring at the advanced level each year alternates between the two groups. Both reading and math data for fifth graders show some leveling out of the achievement gaps with nearly the same rates of proficiency, both intermediate and advanced levels, for males and females at Maple Valley Elementary.