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Clinton Rosette Named as Illinois Academic Improvement School

The Illinois School Board of Education (ISBE) has announced that six schools in DeKalb Community Unit District 428 have qualified for state recognition in 2007, based on student achievement at the schools over the past three years. Chesebro and Littlejohn Elementary Schools have been named Spotlight Schools for the second consecutive year. Tyler Elementary was named as a Spotlight School for the first time this year. Malta Elementary, Jefferson Elementary, and Clinton Rosette Middle School were named as Academic Improvement Schools. Huntley Middle School was named as an Academic Improvement School last year, and Lincoln Elementary School joined a select group of schools as an Academic Excellence School last year.

To receive recognition as an Academic Improvement School, the school must either show either a 7.5 point improvement in state test scores in both reading and mathematics between 2006 and 2007, or show at least a fifteen point improvement in state testing scores between 2005 and 2007. The school must also show an upward trend in state test results.

“The staff, students, and parents have been working hard together to achieve this level of improvement”, said Craig Bowers, principal of Clinton Rosette Middle School. “We will continue to work hard in partnership with our parents and the community in our efforts for continual improvement”.

“This type of comprehensive improvement and the resulting recognition, does not happen by accident”, according to Superintendent of Schools, Paul Beilfuss.  “A prolonged, consistent, and collaborative relationship among our classroom teachers, other professional and classified staff, working together over a period of years with district administrators in partnership with parents, guardians, families, and the community, brings about positive results. We will strive for continued academic excellence as we work to attain additional capacity for the growth occurring in our district”.

The entire list of Spotlight, Academic Improvement, and Academic Excellence schools can be viewed at: http://www.ilhonorroll.niu.edu/ilhonorroll/index.asp.

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