By Nathan Straus
nstraus@jacksonvilleprogress.com
Jacksonville Independent School District is ecstatic over the recent news of five campuses receiving gold performance acknowledgments from the Texas Education Agency.
The agency announced Wednesday that Jacksonville Middle School; West Side, East Side and Joe Wright elementary schools; and Nichols Intermediate School were honored by the TEA.
The middle school was commended in reading and English language arts. Nichols Intermediate was commended in math and for comparable improvement in reading and math. East Side took comparable improvement in math.
In addition, West Side was commended in reading and math and got comparable improvement in math. Joe Wright also received an acknowledgment for comparable improvement in math.
Lisa Cox, principal at Jacksonville Middle School, said the school is working hard on all subjects with the goal of gold performance in everything.
“We were one away from writing and social studies,” she said. “Those students missed just a few points. I’m absolutely proud of all of our students.”
Laurie Greathouse, Nichols Intermediate principal, said she calls the news amazing.
“It’s a testament to the strategies, organization and teaching we have in place,” she said. “The campus has a lot to be proud of.”
Greathouse also said she would like to witness even more improvement in all areas and to see Nichols reach exemplary status.
Sandi Jones, West Side principal, attributed the performance acknowledgments to her staff and students.
“We all work together as a team and treat each child as an individual,” she said.
According to Jones, West Side had only one student not pass reading, and had a 100 percent pass rate on math and writing testing.
Judy Terry, assistant superintendent of instruction and curriculum, said JISD is excited to hear five campuses received gold performance acknowledgments.
“Last year, it was three. This year it’s five,” she said. “The standards have been raised as well.”
A JISD press release stated commended performance refers to a percent of students scoring at or above the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills commended performance standard. A campus earns Gold Performance Acknowledgments by each subject tested if 30 percent or more of its students in each subgroup receive commended performance.
Terry said last year the commended performance standard was 25 percent.
Comparable improvement measures how student performance on the TAKS test has improved from one year to the next and compares growth to that of 40 demographically similar schools. A campus receives the distinction if it is in the top 25 percent of the 40 schools in its group.
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