Commonwealth Accountability Testing System

School Report Card

Our School Growth Chart

2002-2003

Camargo Elementary School

Mary Duff, Principal

4307 Camargo Rd

Mount Sterling, KY 40353

Phone: (859) 497-8776

Fax: (859) 497-4478

Email: mduff@montgomery.k12.ky.us

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Here is our school's report card for the 2002-2003 school year. This report card is full of important information, including academic performance, teacher qualifications, our learning environment, and much more. Please take a moment to learn more about our school. For a more detailed look at our school, please contact us to see our Expanded Report Card on file at school, which includes more information than we can provide here.

Year	Goal Line	Assistance Line	Index
2000	62.6		63.5
2002	67.8	62.6	70.1
2004	73	65.4
2006	78.2	68.1
2008	83.5	70.9
2010	88.7	73.6
2012	93.9	76.4
2014	99.1	79.1
Standard error: 0.9

The School Growth Chart:

To see how we're performing, please take a moment to examine our growth chart. This chart starts with our school’s baseline CATS score from 2000. We've drawn a goal line from that starting point to our goal of 100 in 2014. Every two years a new index point will be marked on the chart to show whether we are meeting our goal and earning rewards, progressing but short of our goal, or falling far short of our goal and eligible for state assistance. Over time, these points will form a performance trend line for our school.

About Our School

Camargo Elementary School is located three miles south of the Mt. Sterling By-Pass on Highway 460. Eleanor Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the first school in 1937. Judge Edward C. O’rear, 1870-1961, was born, raised, and educated in Camargo. He referred to his alma mater as the University of Camargo. The mission statement of our school is to diligently search for and discover the talents and intellectual abilities of each student. It is our goal for students, staff, parents and the community to work together to share our vision of a nurturing and challenging learning environment. Together we will strive to instill within our students creativity, critical thinking, social skills, and respect for themselves and others. We, the staff, students parents, district personnel, and community of Camargo Elementary School will work cooperatively to insure that all students gain a foundation to become life-long learners. Programs offered at Camargo include pre-school, all-day kindergarten, gifted/talented classes, special education, Title I Reading Intervention, Accelerated Reader and Math, Character Education, Second-Step Violence Prevention, before and after school day care, computer lab, Internet access, two school counselors and social workers, itinerant psychologist, and a nurse.

How Our School Ensures Educational Equity

Our staff read the book, A Framework For Understanding Poverty, by Ruby Payne. Our counselor led the faculty in a study of strategies to use in the classroom to help children of poverty be successful. Next school year, the faculty will read the book, Boys and Girls Learn Differently, by Michael Gurian. Our Family Resource Center offers summer camp where children are taken on overnight trips, to the swimming pool, and state parks. FRC does offer a limited number of scholarships for those families who might need help in paying for camp.

School Enrollment (end of year membership 2002-2003) 615

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
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 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)	16%	14%	13%	35%	30%	25%	49%	56%	62%			76.7		81		83.5
Science (4^th)	9%	8%	8%	47%	49%	45%	44%	43%	47%			78.2		78.4		81.7
Writing (4^th)	9%	10%	14%	49%	50%	52%	43%	40%	34%			73		72		68.1
Mathematics (5^th)	32%	30%	31%	33%	32%	31%	34%	38%	38%			64.9		67.9		67.7
Social Studies (5^th)	20%	19%	27%	32%	23%	25%	48%	58%	48%			75.1		82.3		74.2
Arts & Humanities (5^th)	44%	42%	37%	39%	40%	39%	17%	18%	24%			47.3		49.4		55.4
PL/VS (5^th)	21%	15%	18%	29%	27%	29%	50%	58%	53%			72.2		80.8		77.4
	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, allows us to compare our students' performance with the performance of students across the country. These scores are reported in percentiles. 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.						National Norm Referenced Test (CTBS/5)				School	District		State		Nation
						End of Primary (EOP) Reading				61%ile	66%ile		61%ile		50%ile