Statewide School Needs Improvement List released

By Wendy Kleinman
Published: August 28, 2008

The State Department of Education today released the list of schools statewide on the Needs Improvement list, which identifies schools that have failed to make adequate progress for two consecutive years in the same area. They must then make progress for two consecutive years to come off the list.

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There are four areas schools are judged on: math performance, reading performance, percent of students taking state exams, and graduation rate for high schools or attendance rate for other schools.

There are 45 schools on the list this year, compared to 53 schools last year.

List of Oklahoma City Public Schools on the Needs Improvement list, and the benchmarks they did not meet

Year 1:

Rockwood Elementary, math

Rogers Middle School, math

Northeast Academy Middle School, math

Roosevelt Middle School, math

Taft Middle School, math

Oklahoma Centennial Middle School, math and reading and attendance

Santa Fe South Middle School, reading (charter school)

Star Spencer High School, reading

Year 2:

North Highland Math and Science Academy, math

Webster Middle School, math and reading

Year 3:

F.D. Moon Academy, math

Douglass Middle School, attendance

Year 4:

Capitol Hill High School, graduation rate

U.S. Grant High School, math and reading and graduation rate

Another way to look at the list:

Schools that are new to the list:

Rockwood Elementary School

Northeast Academy Middle School

Roosevelt Middle School

Oklahoma Centennial Middle School

Santa Fe South Middle School (charter school)

Star Spencer High School

Schools that came off the list:

John Wesley Charter School (closed)

Seeworth Academy (charter school)

Northwest Classen High School

Spencer Elementary School

Coolidge Elementary School

Emerson Alternative Education High School

Douglass High School

Schools that stayed on the list:

Moon Academy

U.S. Grant High School

Douglass Middle School

Webster Middle School

Rogers Middle School*

Taft Middle School*

North Highland Math and Science Academy*

Capitol Hill High School*

*These schools repeated the years they were on the list. For instance, both Rogers and Taft middle schools are listed as first-time schools on the list — for the second year in a row. That is because the schools made adequate progress, but they have to make it for two years in a row to come off the list.


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Amber, sandy garrett is the best the dems can come up with? She is pathetic.OK, Lahoma - Aug 28, 2008 4:37 PM

No, I do not think she is the best the Dems can come up with. As with any position, I think change is good and its time for someone new. But I also know that in politics the party is most likely not going to give her a primary opponent.

My point is, the Repubs could have come up with someone much more suited for the position in the last election. I mean, The Daily Show made fun of the guy on their show. What a great day that was for the state of Oklahoma.
Amber, Oklahoma City - Aug 29, 2008 11:26 AM
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I love the fact that paul's life sucks as bad as it does. At least for a while we got him to stop posting while at his government job, but I guess he's back at it...
MartzMimic, Oklahoma City - Aug 29, 2008 12:25 AM
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It's because Oklahomans *still* believe all the "For The Kids" lies that every policitian sells.
c, Oklahoma City - Aug 28, 2008 4:53 PM
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Amber, sandy garrett is the best the dems can come up with? She is pathetic.
OK, Lahoma - Aug 28, 2008 4:37 PM
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Carol -- It's probably because the Repubs have yet to put up a formidable opponent. Instead, they put up guys who think our children should use text books as shields to bullets?!? Yikes!
Amber, Oklahoma City - Aug 28, 2008 4:24 PM
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Wow, all of America is on the needs improvement list. The kids in this country are all uneducated, and you guys are pointing fingers at who is dumber on the dumb list? Squabbling over scraps.
Hiroshi, Oklahoma City - Aug 28, 2008 3:35 PM
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Perhaps it would have been a shorter list to show the schools in Okie that DID NOT need improvement..but then a blank page wouldn't offer much in the line of interesting reading, would it??
paul, yukon - Aug 28, 2008 3:13 PM
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Where is the full list?
Harold, McAlester - Aug 28, 2008 3:06 PM
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And this we can thank Sandy Garrett for. Why people continue to vote for her is beyond me.
Carol, Oklahoma City - Aug 28, 2008 4:17 PM
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