Patterson Elementary School ranks in top five percent in state

Two Tecumseh Public Schools (TPS) were designated as Reward Schools by the State of Michigan after it released its top-to-bottom ranking of every school in the state last week. The two local Reward Schools are Patterson and Sutton Elementary. “We are very proud of both schools,” said TPS Supt. Kelly Coffin. “It takes a lot of work to first maintain high performance and also to make significant progress enough to be recognized by the state.”Five Tecumseh schools made the list of the top 13 schools in the county. Coffin added that the school pays attention to its internal data so the schools can predict how students are going to perform on the MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) test. “We don’t want the MEAP to be a surprise for us,” Coffin said. Within the Reward Schools designation there are two differing awards, High Performing School and High Progress School. Patterson received the High Performing School designation for a second year in a row, while Sutton was named a High Progress School, which are schools that show significant improvement and are sustaining that growth. A High Performing School is a school that demonstrates high achievement on state assessments in all five core subjects —reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies — and are closing achievement gaps. In the state’s top-to-bottom ranking, Patterson is reported as being in the 91 percentile of all schools in the state. This means that the state ranked 91 percent of all schools below Patterson in terms of achievement. The other TPS schools are ranked below: • Sutton Elementary School – 81• Herrick Park Elementary School – 75• Tecumseh High School – 70• Tecumseh Middle School – 69• Tecumseh Acres Elementary School – 46Tecumseh Acres Elementary School is designated a Focus School by the state, which means that there is an achievement gap between the top-performing 30 percent of students and the lowest-performing 30 percent. Only 10 percent of schools with the largest gap are considered Focus Schools. “Acres is our Focus School,” said Coffin. “We have some work to do, definitely, in the area of science and writing. We have made some significant gains in reading. “We are not going to stop challenging our top kids, but we are really going to make sure the interventions that our students at the bottom 30 percent need really make sense for the individual child. That means it is on top of their core instruction, not instead of. That is how we move them.” Once a school has been deemed a Focus School, there is no criteria for the school to removed from that designation regardless of a school’s performance. A school is a Focus School for a minimum of four years. Even with Acres being a Focus School, all four elementary schools in the TPS district received a “lime” designation on the Michigan School Accountability Scorecard, the second highest distinguishment possible. “In that category they were all the same,” Coffin said. “We have two Reward Schools. We have Herrick Park doing a good job and then Acres is making improvements.”There are three ways a school can be designated a Reward School. It can be in top five percent of the top-to-bottom list, in the top five percent for improvement, or is considered to be “beating the odds” by outperforming the state’s predicated ranking or similar schools’ performance. There is a third designation, Priority School, which are schools that are ranked in the bottom five percent of the state’s achievement list. There were no Tecumseh schools on that list. “We are moving in the right direction and I’m really happy about that,” Coffin added.

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