Commonwealth Accountability Testing System

School Report Card

1999-2000

Camargo Elementary

Mary Duff

4307 Camargo Road

Mt Sterling, KY 40353 -

(859)-497-8776

(859)-497-8755

MDuff@montgomery.k12.ky.us

Dear Parents/Guardians:

This report card provides information about how well our school is doing, where it is succeeding, and where there is room for improvement. While it cannot tell everything about our performance, the report card is a good starting point for discussions with our teachers, administrators, school council members, and school board members. Unless noted, all data is from the 1999-2000 school year; contact information and narratives reflect the most recent school year's activity. For a more detailed examination of our school, please ask to see our Expanded Report Card, which contains a wealth of data and reports detailing school performance and procedures. Each school is required by law to provide this information upon request.

About Our School

The mission of Camargo Elementary School is to actively search for and discover the talents and intellectual abilities of each student and to provide a learning environment that will encourage all students to develop to their full potential.

We, the staff, students, parents, district personnel, and community of Camargo Elementary School accept the responsibility of working cooperatively to ensure that all students master the learner outcomes to the best of their ability.

Camargo Elementary School is located in a rural section in the southern end of the county. The community of Camargo is a closely knit community whose citizens care about education. Our students come from not only this community but extends to the Powell, Menifee and Bath County lines.

How Our School Ensures Educational Equity

To help our struggling learners, we employ 4 1/2 Special Education teachers, 4 3/4 Title I Reading Teachers, and one Title I Math/Science Resource Teacher. We have a 1/4 time Gifted/ Talented teacher to serve our G/T students. Our school addresses equity as a separate component in our Consolidated Plan. Our school addresses equity as a separate component in our Consolidated Plan.

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How Our Students Perform
Kentucky uses the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) to hold schools accountable for student progress. CATS has three parts: the Kentucky Core Content Tests, the national Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS/5), and other measures of the school’s performance, including attendance, retention and dropout rates. Together these three elements make up a school’s CATS Performance Score for every two-year period.
Kentucky Core Content Tests
These tests measure the ability of our students to use knowledge in each subject. Kentucky’s tests rate student performance using four categories: Novice, Apprentice, Proficient, and Distinguished. These categories translate into a scale of 0-140, with 100 being considered proficient. The state goal for all schools is 100 by the year 2014. This chart compares our school's performance, including academic indices and the percent of our students scoring novice, apprentice, proficient and distinguished (P/D), with all the schools in our district and all the schools in Kentucky.
KCCT Test			Novice			Apprentice				Proficient/Distinguished					Academic Index
			School	District	State	School		District	State	School	District	State			School		District		State
Reading (4^th)			4%	2%	3%	79%		58%	65%	16%	40%	32%			71.7		81.2		76.9
Science (4^th)			13%	8%	12%	85%		87%	82%	2%	6%	6%			51		59		56.9
Writing (4^th)			46%	33%	30%	41%		47%	50%	13%	20%	20%			43.8		53.1		54.2
Mathematics (5^th)			15%	12%	21%	66%		63%	54%	19%	25%	25%			66.7		71.9		67.1
Social Studies (5^th)			8%	8%	20%	82%		80%	67%	10%	12%	13%			61		62.3		57.9
Arts & Humanities (5^th)			77%	69%	65%	19%		26%	31%	4%	5%	5%			25.9		31.3		32.5
PL/VS (5^th)			35%	34%	38%	60%		60%	55%	6%	6%	6%			45.7		46.4		45
			The goal is that by 2014 nearly all students will score proficient or distinguished.
National Norm Referenced Test
The national norm referenced test used in Kentucky, the CTBS/5, measures the basic skills of our students while allowing us to compare their performance with national benchmarks established in 1996. These scores are reported in percentiles. A percentile shows the percentage of students who fell below a particular score on the test. For example, a percentile of 60 would show that the average student in our school scored equal to or better than 60 percent of all students who took the test. For data on student performance on the ACT, SAT, and advanced placement tests, ask to see our school’s Expanded Report Card.									National Norm Referenced Test (CTBS/5)				School	District		State		Nation
									End of Primary (EOP) Reading				50%ile	63%ile		55%ile		50%ile
									EOP Language Arts				43%ile	56%ile		53%ile		50%ile
									EOP Mathematics				40%ile	61%ile		55%ile		50%ile
Other Measures
Other measures of school performance are the degree to which our school succeeds in getting students to come to school, our dropout rate, and the degree to which our graduates successfully move on to higher education or jobs. Another measure is the retention rate, which reflects the percent of students who were not academically ready to go on to the next grade and had to repeat the content of a grade for another year. These data reflect our performance during the 1998-1999 school year.
	Attendance Rate	Retention Rate
School	94.3%	12.8%
District	94.4%	5.8%
State	93.9%	4%
Our CATS Performance							State Contest Results: Academic/Speech, Band, Chorus, and Orchestra
Starting in the year 2002, this space will contain a customized growth chart showing our school’s academic improvement annually in relation to the goal of proficiency by the year 2014.							We are a member