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»Awards
and Honors
Four
Star School Award Announced
2009-10
School Year
Superintendent
of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett announced today the
Hoosier public schools honored with 2009 Four Star School
Awards. The award is the highest State distinction and is
based on student achievement, ISTEP+ assessments, and overall
attendance rates. All three West Lafayette
Community Schools received the award.
Cumberland
Elementary
Happy
Hollow Elementary
West
Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School
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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