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Post by doctorwho on Sept 8, 2010 8:01:07 GMT -6
Has anyone seen anything broken out with the scores by school ?
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From: Metea Valley High School News [mailto:MVHS-NEWS@LISTSERV.IPSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Schmid, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:24 PM
To: MVHS-NEWS@LISTSERV.IPSD.ORG
Subject: [MVHS-NEWS] Building Articulation Day
Good Morning, hope you enjoyed our wonderful weather this weekend, unless you have seasonal allergies!! This communication is a quick note about the educational efforts today that drove our Building Articulation Day agenda. A snapshot follows:
We met as a faculty to present our major school improvement initiative for this school year – SCAIL – an acronym identifying the process of student learning and student achievement – Standards, Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, and ultimately, Learning. Student achievement data assists our efforts to determine our effectiveness, so we also spent considerable time in computer labs looking at our standardized test assessment data by test, by teacher, and by course. Ultimately, we are looking for a specified growth from the Explore test to the ACT test, using student data and the College and Career Readiness Standards as our guides. We want each teacher to own his/her responsibility in this effort.
The afternoon was spent rotating between informational sessions, including our software assessment package (Achievement Series), evaluation updates, PBIS (culture/climate data), and technology updates.
Overall, I believe it was a most productive day. Hope your day went as well. Go go Mustangs!!
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Post by rew on Sept 10, 2010 7:27:29 GMT -6
Administrators have access to the data as of end of August. School Report Cards are published end of October.
When are first week enrollment figures released?
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 10, 2010 19:19:26 GMT -6
Administrators have access to the data as of end of August. School Report Cards are published end of October. When are first week enrollment figures released? have them- will be'hosted' and posted by tomorrow -- interesting notes: 6th day population total HS population 9077 of which 509 is in Frontier - total in 3 school 8568 ( hmmm where is that elusive BS 10400 ?) K 1889 1 2112 2 2064 3 2168 4 2287 5 2391 6 2301 7 2335 8 2240 WVHS 2855 of which 897 are seniors (81 Frontier) MVHS 1863 NVHS 4228 ( 428 Frontier) 1158 seniors |
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Post by southsidesignmaker on Sept 11, 2010 9:52:42 GMT -6
9000 high school students sound about right. Long term, move one more grade school to MVHS, fold frontier into each individual high school. In 10 years if the south side demographic shifts and gets older, turn Freshman center back into middle school. Each high school has between 2600- 3000 students. Sell excess Crone middle school and possible an extra grade school and call it a day.
This is nothing "earth shaking or new", all one has to do is look back to the eighties decade in built out western suburbs such as Elmhurst and follow the same game plan.
The silliest idea this district ever came up with were the freshman centers in the first place. Then to add Frontier campus only masked the problem of overcrowded high schools. This has been especially acute in the southern reaches of our district as greed and overdevelopment prevailed.
We have finally addressed the enrollment issue. Soon we will have to address the cost of this enrollment issue.
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Post by rew on Sept 11, 2010 10:42:37 GMT -6
I would say you have to move a school out of NVHS as well. If NVHSs classes are still about 1000 that leaves NVHS "overcrowded while WVHS will be 2600 next year and MVHS around 2400. Yes, things should be shifted more.
Why not send the rest of Owen and Gombert to MVHS, and then shift the rest of Peterson or Springbrook to WVHS
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 11, 2010 15:33:43 GMT -6
9000 high school students sound about right. Long term, move one more grade school to MVHS, fold frontier into each individual high school. In 10 years if the south side demographic shifts and gets older, turn Freshman center back into middle school. Each high school has between 2600- 3000 students. Sell excess Crone middle school and possible an extra grade school and call it a day. This is nothing "earth shaking or new", all one has to do is look back to the eighties decade in built out western suburbs such as Elmhurst and follow the same game plan. The silliest idea this district ever came up with were the freshman centers in the first place. Then to add Frontier campus only masked the problem of overcrowded high schools. This has been especially acute in the southern reaches of our district as greed and overdevelopment prevailed. We have finally addressed the enrollment issue. Soon we will have to address the cost of this enrollment issue. and just who should that be even further away than us ? And raising the cost of transportation yet again incrementally.. the kids here are leaving at 6:20 for high school which is ridiculous..so what 6:10 busses for Brighton Ridge ? This decision to put the school where no one is except 3 San Bruno style gas mains next to each other just looks better every day. |
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 11, 2010 15:35:37 GMT -6
I would say you have to move a school out of NVHS as well. If NVHSs classes are still about 1000 that leaves NVHS "overcrowded while WVHS will be 2600 next year and MVHS around 2400. Yes, things should be shifted more. Why not send the rest of Owen and Gombert to MVHS, and then shift the rest of Peterson or Springbrook to WVHS I like both of those suggestions for various reasons.. Gombert got what they wanted from M2 and Springbrook went from Vote No to heavy support only after they were set for NVHS |
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 11, 2010 15:37:09 GMT -6
9000 high school students sound about right. Long term, move one more grade school to MVHS, fold frontier into each individual high school. In 10 years if the south side demographic shifts and gets older, turn Freshman center back into middle school. Each high school has between 2600- 3000 students. Sell excess Crone middle school and possible an extra grade school and call it a day. This is nothing "earth shaking or new", all one has to do is look back to the eighties decade in built out western suburbs such as Elmhurst and follow the same game plan. The silliest idea this district ever came up with were the freshman centers in the first place. Then to add Frontier campus only masked the problem of overcrowded high schools. This has been especially acute in the southern reaches of our district as greed and overdevelopment prevailed. We have finally addressed the enrollment issue. Soon we will have to address the cost of this enrollment issue. the freshman centers were exactly the right size for after the bubble- so maybe not so silly ? That group got it right |
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 11, 2010 15:48:57 GMT -6
Administrators have access to the data as of end of August. School Report Cards are published end of October. When are first week enrollment figures released? have them- will be'hosted' and posted by tomorrow -- interesting notes: 6th day population total HS population 9077 of which 509 is in Frontier - total in 3 school 8568 ( hmmm where is that elusive BS 10400 ?) K 1889 1 2112 2 2064 3 2168 4 2287 5 2391 6 2301 7 2335 8 2240 WVHS 2855 of which 897 are seniors (81 Frontier) MVHS 1863 NVHS 4228 ( 428 Frontier) 1158 seniors Here ya go -- all the details winsome.cnchost.com/204/2010-6thdayer.pdf |
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Post by rew on Sept 11, 2010 19:36:10 GMT -6
Thank you DW, I suppose to discuss the numbers we should start another thread. Some of these numbers are very interesting. Look at Builta! It was projected to be 1000.
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Post by southsidesignmaker on Sept 12, 2010 16:29:39 GMT -6
"I like both of those suggestions for various reasons.. Gombert got what they wanted from M2 and Springbrook went from Vote No to heavy support only after they were set for NVHS"
Comments like those above make me wonder who really wants to divide neighborhoods. C'mon give it a rest... there are much bigger concerns at hand!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by doctorwho on Sept 12, 2010 16:53:46 GMT -6
"I like both of those suggestions for various reasons.. Gombert got what they wanted from M2 and Springbrook went from Vote No to heavy support only after they were set for NVHS" Comments like those above make me wonder who really wants to divide neighborhoods. C'mon give it a rest... there are much bigger concerns at hand!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I'm still pissed some people totally sold out others for their own gain only..sorry for being angry over the truth. do you deny either to be true ? I have plenty of backup for either.. so since you are happy with the way it worked out- let's forgive and forget right ? With the same people making decisions ? That's why we will continue to be in this mess... And if you think those areas have forgotten their promises- shut the freshman center at Neuqua - fill up Metea and shift everyone around. Both those areas will be affected- then let's see how much others want to just get along. It will not be pretty and you know it as well as I do. what are those bigger concerns ? And which ones do not stem from previous decisions made by the sitting board ? Should we forget about the promise to look into installing the newest shut off valves for the pipelines also- that conveniently this leadership team has buried away ? I guess so- wouldn't want to divide anyone...after all what are the odds huh ? Let's ask the people of San Bruno that question... SO yes if you're looking for a bigger issue - getting more safety installed at a lousy site would be way up there on my list- and should be on everyone's. Want to bet if it is EVER addressed ? |
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Post by macrockett on Sept 12, 2010 20:02:05 GMT -6
9000 high school students sound about right. Long term, move one more grade school to MVHS, fold frontier into each individual high school. In 10 years if the south side demographic shifts and gets older, turn Freshman center back into middle school. Each high school has between 2600- 3000 students. Sell excess Crone middle school and possible an extra grade school and call it a day. This is nothing "earth shaking or new", all one has to do is look back to the eighties decade in built out western suburbs such as Elmhurst and follow the same game plan. The silliest idea this district ever came up with were the freshman centers in the first place. Then to add Frontier campus only masked the problem of overcrowded high schools. This has been especially acute in the southern reaches of our district as greed and overdevelopment prevailed. We have finally addressed the enrollment issue. Soon we will have to address the cost of this enrollment issue. If that is the silliest, then the stupidest was spending $50000 per seat when we won't even need about a third of them, and doing all this when we reach peak enrollment in 3-4 years and in 10 years return to last years enrollment levels. Oh, don't forget putting the school on a ticking time bomb of 3, not one, high pressure gas transmission lines, in an area called remote and rejected by a majority of the same board members only 2 years prior. And where will they take that last elementary school from to fill up Metea? From across the street of WVHS? Everything else down to 87th has been spoken for...remember? Nothing earth shattering there...it's par for course the in Illinois. |
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Post by asmodeus on Sept 13, 2010 6:05:33 GMT -6
That sums it up for me. I can respect someone who admits his mistakes and promises to learn from them. But all we hear from the SB and its apologists is that it all worked out in the end because now we'll have three HS with an "ideal" 3k students each. That was NOT the premise the referendum was built upon. We weren't voting to create an ideal situation; we were told we were voting to avoid catastrophe -- split shifts, year round school, etc.
The bottom line is that the SB cannot be trusted. They're like Lovie Smith, who can never admit a mistake.
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