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Presentation of Data: Instructional Data
The teachers were surveyed in order to determine the
instructional objectives that were of highest priority to them.
Teachers could pick three objectives they believed had the highest
importance. Results show ensuring students learn basic skills
to be the number one choice with maintaining an orderly environment
for learning and improving self image rounding out the top three.
Implications for Action:
Instructional Data
Student Performance Goals
As the curriculum comes into alignment with state
benchmarks, student test scores will improve. We anticipate
that using multiple intelligence and cooperative learning structures
will reach a broader range of students.
Non-Student Data
No implications.
Other Data Needed
We plan to do an end of the year survey of the teachers
to see if their methods aided student achievement.
Clarifying Goals
The individual results of the state writing and Assess To
Learn need to be further analyzed as soon as the individual scores
are available. Our goal is to identify specific skills lacking
in the curriculum so that we can modify our delivery.
Interventions
No implications.
Other Actions Needed
Inservice time may need to be planned to continue our
work with multiple intelligences and cooperative learning.
Data Collection Instruments
We selected the following instruments to collect data
regarding Community Data:
Community Survey
New Housing Trends
SES
Analysis of Data
Community Survey
The Western School District conducted a community survey
in the fall of 1995. The survey was conducted over a 6-week
period by telephone. Many questions were asked about all
buildings in our district. We would like to focus on the part
of the survey that included specifics about Western Middle School.
Our survey indicated that 65.2% of our parents thought we earned a B
or less in writing while 58.7% thought we were a B or less in Social
Studies. In science, 59.7% of our parents rated us at the B or
lower grade.
Our concern is to move the community perception of our effectiveness
from B's, C's and D's to a majority of A's and some B's.
New Housing Trends
A Long Range Facilities Planning committee did a study
during the 2001-2002 school year in preparation for our bond issue.
They found the following list of planned developments:
* North Parma Road =400 mobile home units ready to break ground
* Michigan Ave. =82 units on hold but ready to develop
* King Rd. =125 units ready to begin spring 2001
* Throughout district on Chapel, Slayton, Bunting Rds. = 150 units
starting during the next
several years.
* Michigan Ave. and Dearing Rd. = A manufactured housing project has
been approved. No
site plan has been presented to the township
at this point. In fact it may be five to ten years
before the
impact of this development is felt in the school district.
This has the potential for 700
units.
In summary, the total known housing growth potential for the school
district is approximately
1, 460 new home starts.
At present, we currently have several mobile home parks in our
district. Typically these students are low achievers in all
areas and extremely at-risk students. A majority of our late
and mid-year enrollments are students from the mobile home parks.
SES
Currently at Western Middle School we have 19% of our
students receiving free lunch and 9% of our students receiving
reduced lunch. This number is pretty typical of what we see on
a yearly basis.
We enjoy a close proximity to Spring Arbor University, which
benefits us with tutorial services and site-based teacher education
programs. Our parent population spans from those with college
degrees to the factory employees of Michigan Automotive Compressors,
Inc. (MACI) to the unemployed.
The district itself employs approximately 300 people and is
supported by an annual budget of approximately $22,000,000. We
receive approximately 11% of our operating revenue from local
sources, 88% from State Aid, and 1% from Federal monies.
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