Hendrix Presents Annual Report

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

— Superintendent Clay Hendrix presented the Annual Report to the public to parents, the Lincoln School Board and school offcials in October.

“I believe the report went very well,” Hendrix said.

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Lincoln Elementary School’s second grade. The high school band played the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Hendrix praised the students and said close to 300 attended the annual report that was held at the new high school.

The report showed the Lincoln Consolidated School District covers 146 square miles. School enrollment as of Oct. 1 was 1,240 students.

District goals for the school district included improving student achievement, strengthen partnerships within the community, support for the whole child and regaining and maintain fi scal stability, according to the report.

A budget summary showed a balance of $1.3 million was brought forward on July 1, 2012. A projected budget for June 30, 2013, showed $2 million, according the report.

“It’s an aggressive budget,” Hendrix said about the $2 million. “I believe we can do it. Sometime there are hard decisions to be made, and we’re doing as much as we can do without impacting the students or the quality of education.”

Hendrix cited lighting and other areas to gain savings.

Operating revenue by source showed 51 percent goes to the district from the state foundation, 24 percent comes from property taxes, 12 percent from state designated funds, 9 percent from grants and 4 percent from other funds.

According to Benchmark testing and other screening and tests for 2012, the high school had an increase of 6 percent advancement in Algebra with 62 percent profi - cient, 31 percent in basic performance and a small 2 percent below basic level.

In Geometry, 25 percent performed at advanced level with 60 performing at profi cient level. In 11th grade literacy 21 percent performed at advanced level with$720,134 balance and projects to end the year with about the same balance.

Academically, students excelled on the 2012 Benchmark Exams, Law said.

A bar graph handout shows that more than 82 percent of students in third-eighth grade scored proficient or advanced on the math test.That percentage was as high as 92 percent for third graders on the math test.

More than 80 percent of the students scored proficient or advanced on the literacy test, with the exception of sixth grade, which was just below 80 percent.

For the 2012 end-of-course tests, 89 percent of the students scored proficient or better on the algebratest, 74 percent of the 11th graders scored profi cient or advanced on the literacy test, 81 percent scored profi cient or better on the geometry test and 51 percent scored proficient or advanced on the biology test.

The school has implemented a district-wide initiative to increase the number of teachers involved in professional learningcommunities, Law said, adding that 55 teachers will participate in a training this summer in Tulsa on working in professional learning communities.

A professional learning community is staff and teachers working together for continuous school improvement.

He noted that the communities help schoolsform “great relationships” with each other and with students.

“We’re working together for the good of the students, rather than working independently for the good of the students,” Law said.

The district’s current student enrollment is 2,080 students, compared to 2,012 at the same time last year.

Law said the district hasvery few open classrooms available and the space at the high school is the greatest concern. The district is proposing to build a new high school in three phases. The first phase will be a new basketball arena and fi ne arts center. The second phase would be instructional space and the third phase would be football facilities and other amenities.

News, Pages 1 on 11/07/2012