Our district has implemented a rigorous academic assessment program in all core curricular areas. We have district assessments in Reading, Math, Writing, Science and Social Studies. These assessments are aligned with the Michigan Standards and Benchmarks Framework. These, along with MEAP standardized assessment data, provide our staff a clear picture of student results and progress. Our staff uses their expertise to analyze the data and adjust effective teaching strategies to target specific areas for improvement. Achievement results through the use of credentialing plans - successful mastery of benchmarks - is critical to success of our students.

Student Performance Goal #1: Students will improve in reading comprehension in the content areas of social studies, science and math.

Student Performance Goal #2: All students demonstrate an improvement in exit level computation skill, and will be able to interpret written data for the purpose of grade level appropriate problem solving.

Student Performance Goal #3: All students will improve their writing process by integrating their reading knowledge from different genres, and empowering their writing with text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.