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| June 2007 Principal's Letter |
| Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:00 | |
Academic SuccessThis past week we received our annual Achievement Test results. We are pleased and proud to announce that for the second year in a row all classrooms (K-8) have scored at or above the 70th percentile on the overall battery of tests. This means that when we compare our school to all other schools in the United States who took the Stanford Achievement Test, Our Savior Lutheran School students did better than 70% of all the others. Please thank our teachers and staff for the outstanding work they are doing.What makes these scores even more significant is that we do not eliminate any student’s test from the overall average. The scoring service allows a student to be “flagged” because of special learning needs. Many schools will take advantage of that and keep those lower scoring student’s results from being included in the school average. Our Savior Lutheran School does not. We want to know the true picture of how well we are doing. Including all students in the scoring gives us that picture. As proud as we are about how well our students do academically, we are even prouder of the way they are growing spiritually and socially. Those are harder areas to measure, yet we see our students regularly involved in setting the example “in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity”. We thank God for allowing us to be able to educate the whole child; mind, body, and spirit and look forward to continuing to do the same with even more children next year. In Christ, Martin A. Brieschke, Principal |