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»Awards
and Honors
Four
Star School Award Announced
2008-09
School Year
Superintendent
of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett announced today the
Hoosier public schools honored with 2008 Four Star School
Awards. The award is the highest State distinction and is
based on student achievement, ISTEP+ assessments, and overall
attendance rates. Two of the West Lafayette Community
Schools received the award.
Happy
Hollow Elementary
West
Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School
Cumberland
Elementary missed the Four Star
Award by less than 1/10th of a point on attendance!
All other academic requirements were met.
To
earn the distinction, a school must be accredited by the Indiana
State Board of Education, meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
as defined by the The No Child Left Behind Act of
2001 (NCLB), and perform in the top 25% of all the schools
in the State in each of the following four
areas:
- student
attendance rates,
- mathematics
proficiency scores,
- English/language
arts proficiency scores, and
- the
percent of students passing both English/language arts and
mathematics.
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