Heavy Medal Awards
Our Students, Teachers and Staff are our Treasure!
We are very proud of our Students and Teachers at Stevenson Elementary for collectively raising our Academic Performance Index by 52 points to a whopping 877 total! That’s 77 points above the target for the state of California schools.
Stevenson’s “Heavy Medal” Awards Assembly on October 30th, 2009, was quite exciting as 569 bronze, sliver and gold medals were awarded to 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students for:
- advanced in reading and/or math
- proficient in reading and/or math
- moving a band (from basic to proficient, from proficient to advanced, etc..)
- increasing overall score by more than 20 points in either math or reading.
Five of our top students: Connor Boulais, Juno Cendejas, David Jaramillo, Vincenzo Rauso and Makenna Kane, each scored a perfect 600 on the math section – they became members of the 600 Club!
Stevenson’s teachers were also awarded for helping our children exceed our goals.
Distinguished!
Because of this spectacular achievement, Stevenson has been invited once again to apply for the California Distinguished School honor.
To meet the criteria for Distinguished honors Stevenson had to:
- exceed our API growth target as set by the state (we exceeded this goal by 40 points over the national average)
- have all of our subgroups (Hispanic and Socio-economically Disadvantaged and White) improve more than the average statewide growth. This means that our Hispanic group had to increased by more than 17 points. Our increase was 47 points for this subgroup! For SED, we needed to increase by more than 18 points. This group increased by 90 points! We also showed an increase at more than the state average for the White group!
As a school we meet the “Closing the Achievement Gap” eligibility.
Congratulations Stevenson Teachers, Students and Staff for all your hard work!