10 Schools to Share $500,000 Award
Posted on: Sunday, 5 February 2006, 18:00 CST
By Michael Bratcher, The Daily Oklahoman
Feb. 5--Ten schools will share $500,000 for outstanding or improved test scores, but the four schools recognized in the fall for perfect test scores did not make the list.
The announcement at the last state Board of Education meeting resulted in phone calls to the state Education Department from parents wondering why their schools were left off the Academic Achievement Award list.
Shawn Hime, an assistant state schools superintendent, said it's a matter of two sets of scores used by the state.
In the fall, the department announced Academic Performance Index scores. The scores are based mostly on testing, and four elementaries -- Choctaw, Deer Creek, Prairie Vale and Tulsa's Southeast -- received a perfect 1500.
The scores did not take into account the performance of special education or English-language-learning students. The department keeps scores for each school based on a number of student subgroups.
The financial awards presented at the board meeting took into account overall scores, Hime said. That caused the top four schools' overall scores to be surpassed by other schools.
The state board divided schools into five categories based on enrollment and gave the top-performing school in each category the award. The most improved school in the five categories also received the award.
Hayward Smith Elementary in Owasso had an API of 1480, giving it the academic award for a school with an enrollment of more than 506 students.
Other schools receiving the awards were: Straight Elementary; Okarche Elementary; Eisenhower International Elementary, Tulsa; Rivers Elementary, Altus; Bokoshe Junior High; Oakridge Elementary, Oklahoma City; Eugene Field Elementary, Tulsa; Okmulgee Middle School; and Lindbergh Elementary, Tulsa.
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