Families and community members can find out more about how Monroe’s students are learning in comparison to students in other schools across our state and nation through online report card link below. The major focus of Monroe’s schools and the nation’s public schools is to provide all children with a fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a quality education.
The students of today will be our leaders tomorrow. No matter what today’s students choose after high school – college, trade school or the job market – everyone will need strong skills to become productive members of our society.
From this link you can review statistics about Monroe Public Schools as a district or select one of its schools for more in-depth information.
This link also provide information on the learning progress of our schools as defined by the federal government’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as the ‘Leave No Child Behind’ Act of 2001. By law school systems must prepare a letter outlining the system’s progress and provide that letter to families with children attending public school. Below is a link to Monroe Public Schools’ 2009 letter.
2009 District Improvement Letter
In addition, a district-wide Learning Improvement Plan has been drafted to further direct the work of Monroe’s public school system as it supports each school. Schools also draft a Learning Improvement Plan. Visitors will find those plans on each school’s website by using the “Links” tab at the top of the screen.
2009 District Learning Improvement Plan
Adequate Yearly Progress goal results – 2009
As part of the "No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act," school districts are required to notify parents/guardians when the school that their child attends has not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two or more consecutive years in the same subject/student category if that school receives Title I federal funds.
Meeting Adequate Yearly Progress goals is determined by student performance on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. Individual student score reports are provided to families in the fall after school begins. Each school’s results are available at the Online Report Card.
For families wanting to learn more about how to interpret their child’s score on this Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), the link below should be of assistance.
How to read a WASL score report
In 2010 a new assessment will replace the WASL. It is called the Measurement of Student Progress for students in grades 3-8. High school students will take the High School Proficiency Examination to satisfy the state’s high school graduation requirement in reading, writing and math.
AYP is determined on an annual basis by three measures:
1) the percentage of students participating in the WASL,
2) the percentage of students meeting the WASL standards in reading and math, and
3) the percentage of students who have unexcused absences during the year.
Those percentages are calculated across several categories, including student gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and participation in special educational programs. If any one of these sub-groups of students does not make AYP in the same grade / subject for two consecutive years, the school is placed into Step 1 of School Improvement. If the school does not meet federal goals in the next year it enters Step 2 which is offering free tutoring to qualified students in addition to school choice. Step 3 carries forward school choice, free tutoring for qualified students and begins to implement changes in the school structure including new curriculum. The state offers a full description of AYP provisions.
AYP Results for 2009 are:
Chain Lake Elementary School Met goals
Frank Wagner Elementary School Did not meet goals
(Federally funded – students may transfer to Chain Lake or Salem Woods elementaries)
Fryelands Elementary School Did not meet goals
Maltby Elementary School Met goals
Salem Woods Elementary School Met goals
Hidden River Middle School Met goals
Monroe Middle School Did not meet goals
Park Place Middle School Did not meet goals
(Federally funded – students may transfer to Hidden River School)
Monroe High School Did not meet goals
Monroe School District Did not meet goals
Federal law requires that families attending schools where federal dollars support programs be given the opportunity to change to a school that met Adequate Yearly Progress goals.
2007-2008: Public School Choice
# of students eligible 584 (PPMS only)
# of students participating – 13
* No school eligible in 2007-2008 for Supplemental Educational Services
2008-2009: Public School Choice
# of students eligible – 1257 (PPMS and FWES)
# of students participating – 68
Supplemental Educational Services (SES)
# of students eligible – 147 (PPMS only)
# of students participating - 23
2009-2010: Public School Choice
# of students eligible – 1114
# of students participating – 117
Supplemental Educational Services (SES)
# of students eligible – 484
# of students participating – 15
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