2013 — 2014Annual Report 42nd Education 2018: largest school district Excellence for Every Student Adopted in the country In September 2013, the Board of Education approved a strategic plan with the goal of making Metro Nashville Public Schools the highest-performing urban school + district in the United States by 2018. Education 2018: Excellence for Every Student 82,000 focuses on personalized learning to help every student grow academically, socially and students enrolled emotionally every year. Education 2018 has three key strategies: quality teaching, equity and excellence, and + transformational leadership. The plan includes five characteristics for every student 120 upon completing elementary, middle and high school to be prepared for college, different countries represented career and life after graduation. President Obama Visits McGavock High School, Recognizes Metro Schools’ Accomplishments

In a January 2014 visit to McGavock year, attendance across the district, which with the opportunity to attend pre-K. High School, President Barack Obama includes 12 academy high schools, was praised the district’s school improvements higher than ever. Thousands of students in an address to students, teachers, are getting a head start on their future district administrators and elected years before many of their peers do. And officials. He praised Nashville as an it’s great for businesses because they’re example of positive change in public developing a pool of workers who already education, especially the Academies of have the skills that they’re looking for…I Nashville college and career preparation want to encourage more high schools to program. do what you are doing.” “It’s working. Over the past nine years, The President also praised Metro Schools’ the graduation rate here has gone up 22 pre-k initiative that has a long-term goal percent — 22 percent,” he said. “Last of providing every 4-year-old in Nashville Academies of Metro Schools a Leader in Social and Nashville Receive Emotional Learning Movement National Attention Metro Schools is focused on creating a positive school environment where students are nurtured and develop healthy social skills and emotional habits. The district made In 2014, an additional five Academies social and emotional learning part of its strategic plan and is implementing tactics earned “model status” from the National with support from the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning Career Academy Coalition, the highest (CASEL) and a grant from the NoVo Foundation. Hundreds of educators from designation for a high school academy, Tennessee and out of state attended the district’s annual summer SEL conference on taking the total academies with “model how to create positive school environments. CASEL chairman Tim Shriver visited status” to 14. The new academies to earn Nashville in the spring to address district and community leaders and praised the this distinction are: district’s commitment to SEL. ■ The Academy of Community Health, Whites Creek High School Awards, Achievements and Growth ■ The Academy of Automotive Technology and Design, Antioch Whites Creek High School Receives showing off their mobile energy lab to High School Environmental Award from Gov. Haslam high schools along the way. ■ The Academy of Hospitality and for Academy’s Green Initiatives Glencliff High School’s College-Bound Marketing, Antioch High School In recognition of their work in Graduates Double in One Year sustainable energy and alternative fuels, ■ The Tennessee Credit Union In just one year, Glencliff High School students from the Academy of Alternative Academy of Business and Finance, doubled the number of college-bound Antioch High School Energy, Sustainability and Logistics at graduates with more than 100 Glencliff Whites Creek High School won the High School seniors applying and being ■ The Academy of Teaching and Governor’s Environmental Stewardship accepted into college, compared to 50 Service, Antioch High School Award for Excellence in Energy and the year before. Thanks to programs like With this designation, Antioch joins Renewable Resources. GEAR UP MNPS, NashvilleAchieves, Hillwood and McGavock high schools in Students in the Academy and in the the Oasis College Connection, the having all their Academies with “model” Future Farmers of America chapter at Tennessee College Access and Success status. Across the district, one-third of Whites Creek made biofuel in a school Network and partners who work to boost the Academies of Nashville now have lab and then used the fuel to power college access, that number will continue model status. a truck for a drive across Tennessee, to climb in the future. All-Star Training Program Launched Common Core In February, the district launched All-Star training gave teachers the tools State Standards its largest professional development to personalize instruction for every program ever, the All-Star Training student, to access ongoing professional Metro Schools is years ahead of most program, available online and with development, to get support for Tennessee districts in implementing classroom support. The training is an Common Core State Standards and the the Common Core State Standards. example of the Education 2018 strategic related PARCC assessment, to integrate Launched in most districts in 2013- plan at work; it provided teachers the online learning into classes and to share 14, Metro Schools began its effort in foundation for personalizing learning. ideas and best practices with each other. 2011-12 as part of its work to increase Teachers need the right technology for School districts across the country took academic rigor. With the state’s decision this targeted instruction, so every teacher note of the All-Star training program. to defer implementation of the Common completing the training received a new Memphis, San Diego and New York Core-aligned PARCC assessment, Metro laptop computer. City expressed interest in using the Nashville students are now taught one In addition to integrating technology, program in their districts. set of standards and tested on another. The district has volunteered to be a whole district test site for an aligned assessment in the 2014-15 school year. Music Makes Us Efforts Rewarded Common Core is a state-led effort with “Best Community for Music to establish a single set of clear, rigorous educational standards for Education” Designation English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics. The standards inform teachers what students should be The NAMM Foundation of the National Association of Music Merchants recognized learning, but they are not a curriculum the work of the Music Makes Us collaborative by naming Nashville one of the and do not tell the teacher how to teach nation’s Best Communities for Music Education, an honor received by less than the material. 3 percent of the nation’s districts. The award recognizes school districts that show exceptional effort toward maintaining music education as an important part of the district’s core curriculum. Music Makes Us is a collaboration among Metro Schools, the community, the Mayor’s office and Nashville’s music industry to support a K-12 music curriculum. It includes music literacy and opportunities to participate Metro Schools is in traditional school chorus, band and orchestra programs as well as songwriting, Home to the Most mariachi, country, bluegrass, rock and more. Challenging and Best High Schools in the State According to The Washington Post, Hume-Fogg and Martin Luther King Jr. high schools are ranked No. 1 and 2 respectively as Tennessee’s most challenging high schools with Hillsboro ranked No. 4. U.S. News and World Report released its annual list of best high schools in the country, ranking Hume-Fogg as No. 1 and Martin Luther King Jr. as No. 2 in the state and in the top 100 on the national list, ranking No. 54 and 74. Enrollment 2013-14 Operating Budget Total Enrollment General Operating Budget $790,067,500 Pre-School 195 Expenditures Leadership & Learning $540,968,500 Pre-Kindergarten 2,030 Plant Operations $64,895,000 Elementary School 35,816 Fixed Charges $40,056,300 Middle School 22,852 Transportation $35,665,400 High School 20,525 Maintenance of Buildings $19,164,000 Special Education 1,450 Administration $13,973,900 TOTAL 82,863 Attendance/Social Services $7,066,400 Student Ethnic Composition Adult & Community Services $434,500 Asian 3,322 Total Operational Expenses $722,224,000 Black 36,985 Reimbursable Projects $1,599,800 Hispanic 15,792 Operating Transfer to Debt Service $16,147,200 Native American 155 Operating Transfer to Charter $50,096,500 Pacific Island 138 White 26,496 Projected Federal Budget English Learners (EL) 22,291 Title I: Improving the Academic $29,425,000 Achievement of the Disadvantaged Looking Ahead: 2014-15 Budget Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) $18,162,000 Capital Budget Race to the Top $2,200,000 School Projects First to the Top $250,000 Teacher Incentive Fund Grant (TIF) $1,700,000 Bordeaux Elementary Demo / Convert to PreK $850,000 Cane Ridge Area Elementary New Land $650,000 Magnet School Assistance Program Grant (MSAP) $750,000 Glencliff Elementary Add (12) / Rezone Paragon Mills $64,895,000 Title IIA: Teacher & Principal Training & Recruiting $2,702,000 Glenview Elementary Add (8) $4,200,000 School Improvement Grants (SIG) $4,000,000 Hume-Fogg Magnet High $22,750,000 Pre-K State $434,500 King, M.L. Magnet Add (12) / Partial Renovation $6,900,000 Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education $722,224,000 Major, Ruby Elementary Add (12) $3,500,000 Title III: English Language Acquisition/ $1,599,800 Overton Cluster ES (Tusculum area) $14,500,000 Enhancement/Academic Achievement Pre-K Model Center - Casa Azafran $600,000 GEAR Up $523,000 Tusculum Elementary Replacement $17,300,000 Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers $342,000 TOTAL $75,000,000 R.O.T.C. Teaching Programs $325,000 Collaborative for Academic, Social, District Wide Projects $250,000 and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Music Makes Us Upgrades (East, McGavock, H.G. Hill) $420,000 Coordinated School Health $230,000 CCTV System Installations or Upgrades $210,000 Family Resource Centers $237,000 CCTV Systems for HS Stadiums $270,000 Math and Science Partnership $250,000 ADA Compliance $800,000 Title X: Education of the Homeless $160,000 Asphalt Paving $400,000 Elevator and Electronic Upgrades $300,000 Lottery for Education After School Program (LEAPS) $500,000 Steam, Water, Sewer Piping Deferred Maintenance $1,500,000 Tennessee College Access Network $50,000 HVAC Chillers, Controls, Components Replacements $500,000 Tennessee Safe Schools $250,000 Steam Boiler Replacements $1,000,000 Tennessee Arts Commission $50,000 Asbestos, Environmental $600,000 Contingency (in anticipation of new and additional grant awards) $5,000,000 Casework, Furniture, Lab Upgrades $800,000 GRAND TOTAL ALL PROJECTED GRANTS $73,854,000 Emergency Maintenance, Entry Vestibules $1,200,000 Roof Replacement/Repair $2,000,000 Technology $15,000,000 Bus/Vehicle Replacement $10,000,000 TOTAL 35,000,000 The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, color, age, and/or disability in admission to, access to, or operation of GRAND TOTAL $110,000,000 its programs, services, or activities. MNPS does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.