2014-15
Annual School Performance Report Skyline High School
Skyline High School
1122 228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 (425) 837-7700 http://connect.issaquah. wednet.edu/high/skyline/ default.aspx Principal Donna Hood
Welcome In an intentional effort to make honorable, thinking, skillful citizens who possess integrity, act with honor and pride, and pursue scholarship and excellence in the service of humanity, Skyline High school has established a strong academic tradition coupled with award-winning activity programs that boast several state titles and are wellsupported by the community. Its education program prepares students with the necessary skills to successfully achieve their postsecondary life goals, whatever they may be.
Mission Our students will be prepared for and eager to accept the academic, occupational, personal, and practical challenges of life in a dynamic global environment.
Demographics Grades: 9-12
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In March 2014, the U.S. Department of Education declined to renew the state of Washington’s conditional Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver for schools receiving Title I, Part A funds. This decision affects all schools in Washington State, which are now subject to the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Washington is the only state that has lost its waiver and must revert to NCLB standards and timelines of assessment. For schools and districts to be considered succeeding under NCLB, schools must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. For schools to meet AYP, 100 percent of all students, regardless of special needs or English language mastery, must meet proficiency standards. Skyline met AYP this year. For complete information about the Issaquah School District’s assessment data, highly qualified teachers, annual yearly progress, and state NAEP (of Educational Progress) results, please visit the state’s online district report card.
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For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/ CommunityReport/ The Issaquah School District believes in seeking continual feedback from a broad and diverse range of constituents regarding their experiences with the District and their neighborhood school. See the Community Polling Study site at www. issaquah.wednet.edu/district/polling.aspx for more information and survey results.
Highlights We set academic standards with the expectation that all students pursue their studies with a global focus, intentionality, and vigor. International Baccalaureate (IB) is a high school diploma program with worldwide recognition. Over 44% of juniors and seniors take one or more IB courses covering all curricular departments, and they have opportunities for independent research and make up the largest IB Business Program in the world. In 2015 Skyline had 1 National Merit Citizen Watch Scholarship Winner and 46 more Skyline students qualified for the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. STEM classes have 552 students taking three or more years of Science. Such students have earned 3 of 20 Microsoft Summer Internships, 5 WA Aerospace Scholar Internships, 28th out of 713 teams in the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Fly-offs, and a Level 2 Green School award as part of our sustainability efforts. The Visual and Performing Arts Department includes opportunities in drawing, sculpting, orchestra, choir, band and theater. The Skyline Silver Symphony won first place in their division at the Western Washington University Orchestra Festival, while string, guitar and vocal ensembles, as well as several soloists, competed at the state Solo/ Ensemble Festival, with Vocal Jazz taking top honors. Orchestra has achieved a
Gold rating at the WWU Orchestra Festival. while 3 vocal ensembles competed at the state level. Both Vocal and Instrumental Jazz groups earned top honors at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Skyline had a national winner for the PTA Reflections contest. The theater department’s musical Pippin earned 6 nominations for the 5th Avenue Awards in Seattle, earning 2 honorable mentions and Best Actress in a Leading Role with an opportunity to compete in NYC this summer. The theater department also competed in the ESUUS Shakespeare Competition and the Washington State Thespians with their International Theatrical Honor Society Troupe. Skyline offers a comprehensive 4-year CTE program. At the end of the 2013-2014 school year, three students were nominated for Emmy awards in the NW NATAS High School Emmy competition. Skyline took home 2 Emmys from that competition for their videos from our TV Production classes. In April of 2015, Skyline won 6 of the 10 awards given out at the Influence the Choice video competition held in Issaquah, including the top award of Best In Show. Skyline also received 6 High School Emmy nominations this year. The results will be known at the banquet on June 6, 2015. Police and Forensics and Criminal Justice classes participate in the Seattle Mock Trial, while Child Development classes assist in the ECE program on campus and tutor locally. Our Graphic Design classes produce media for student and local community organizations. IB Computer Science classes participated in regional programming competitions, often placing in the top 3, with one team winning PLU’s programming contest. Other IB CS students landed coveted internships with Microsoft, and many other IB Computer Science CTE students participated in Robotics Club, taking part in regional FIRST Robotics competitions. 250 Introductory and IB Business Management students qualified for the State DECA competition with 8 students taking top 20 honors at the International Competition in Atlanta, GA. Skyline’s IB Psychology Team presented
at UW’s Brain Week and were the only high school team to present there. Skyline’s Japanese Club participated in the 2014 Washington State High School Japanese Speech/Skit Contest with students taking 1st place in the 4th year level Skit and 1st place in the 3rd year level Skit. Skyline’s Chinese students won the 2015 Washington State Chinese Language and Talent Competition, sponsored by OSPI. This year’s contest featured 464 contestants from 155 schools competing in 10 categories. Skyline Chinese students also won in all 3 categories of the 2014-2015 Why I Learn Chinese Competition. State championships last five years: 2015: State Cheer Champions; 2014: State Cheer Champions, State Gymnastics Beam Champion, Football Academic State Champions; 2013: State Cheer Champions, Diving State Champions; 2012: State Cheer Champions, Girls Soccer State Champions, Football State Champions, Dance Academic State Champions, Girls Swim 200 MR State Champions; 2011: Girls Swim Team State Champions with individual State titles in 400 Free Relay, 200 Free Relay, and 100 Fly, Girls Soccer State Champions, State Football Champions, State Cheer Champions, Boys Track Titles in Long Jump, Triple Jump, and High Jump; 2010: Girls Swim State Champions, Boys Triple Jump State Champion, State Cheer Champions; 2009: State Cheerleading Champions, Pacific NW Chapter of the Year – JSA 20 Varsity teams, 13 JV teams, 7 C teams. The average GPA for student athletes is 3.43 with every team having a cumulative GPA at 3.0 and above.
Athletics Skyline Athletic Programs serves to support our academic programs by developing character through athletic participation. This past year, 1195 students participated in our athletic programs, and achieved a combined average GPA of 3.43. Along with their academic success, they have garnered many accolades. These include: Football being named as Academic State Champions in 2014, Girls Cross Country placing 4th in State, Girls Soccer placing 3rd in State, Cheer winning the State Championship for the fourth year in a row, Dance placing 6th in state, and Gymnastics winning their first ever individual State Title on the beam. Outside of the athletic arena, many of our athletic programs regularly participate in community service events from clothing drives, to youth camps, all of which help to build a stronger school and unify the local community. Skyline Athletics above all else, strives to develop the entire person by teaching the values of honor, pride, scholarship, integrity, and excellence.
Improving Student Achievement Based upon a graduation rate of 96.4% from 2008-2011, the Continuous Improvement Plan goal is to reach 100% graduation rate by 2014, including a focus on closing the achievement gap by an additional 5% between our students with individualized education plans and their peers on the Algebra and Geometry End of Course Assessments. To this end, Skyline provides every 10th and 11th grader with the opportunity to sit for the PSAT in October, has teachers participating in Critical Friends Groups and partnered with ISF to provide after school assistance with study skills for students in all disciplines.
Special Programs Start Strong, International Baccalaureate, 7th Period Options, Think First! Robotics, TEALS partnership with Microsoft, ECE Preschool, Running Start: College in the High School, WANIC, Shakespeare in the Classroom, Mental Health Social Worker partnership with Swedish, Drug and Alcohol Interventions with Friends of Youth
Extra-curricular Activities Acting Up, Art Club, ASB, ASB Dance Committee, Band, Biology Club, Cheerleading, Chess Club, Choir Club, Club MED, Dance Team, Dead Poet’s Society, DECA, Engineering Club, Evergreen Philharmonic, FCCLA, Film Club, French Club, Guitar Club, Japanese NHS Club, Jazz Band, Journalism, Key Club, Link Crew, Math Club, Mock Trial Club,National Honor Society, Orchestra, Red Cross Club, Robotics Club, Rocketry Club, Science Club, Spanish Club, Start-Up Club, Technology Club, The Green Team, Ultimate Frisbee Club, Video/Anime Club, Writer’s Club, Yearbook.
What’s New Under the leadership of Principal Donna Hood and with community support from the PTSA and ISF, Skyline continues the “Start Strong” program geared to smooth the transition for incoming ninth graders. Skyline has also been approved by the IBO to develop an IB Career Certificate program to begin offerings in the 2015-2016 school year. Principal Hood also organized the first Skyline Health and Wellness Symposium in March, geared toward supporting the social, emotional and mental health of Skyline students and families. In April 2015, Skyline was recognized by OSPI and awarded a Washington Achievement Award for Overall Excellence and Extended Graduation Rate.
Assessment
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Two tests given to elementary school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP)—help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
The 2014-2015 11th Grade Smarter Balanced Assessment results in English Language Arts and Math were suppressed by OSPI due to the low number of students from our District who took the tests. These assessments were required for accountability, however, 11th grade students who had already met their graduation requirements through other assessments opted out of the test. For information from OSPI on test suppression data, please visit OSPI at http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/ TemplateDetail.aspx?domain=SBAC&schoo lId=114&reportLevel=District&year=201415&gradeLevelId=11&groupLevel=District& waslCategory=1&chartType=1
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Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions to include extended response and technology enhanced items, as well as performance tasks that allow students to demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Performance tasks challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to complex real-world problems. They can best be described as collections of questions and activities that are coherently connected to a single theme or scenario. These activities are meant to measure capacities such as depth of understanding, writing and research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with traditional
assessment questions. The performance tasks will be taken on a computer (but will not be computer adaptive) and will take one to two class periods to complete. Smarter Balanced capitalizes on the precision and efficiency of computer adaptive testing (CAT). This approach represents a significant improvement over traditional paper-andpencil assessments used in many states today, providing more accurate scores for all students across the full range of the achievement continuum.
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The Smarter Balanced Assessment is a system of valid, reliable, and fair next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11. The system—which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional use—will use computer adaptive testing technologies to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed.
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EOC In spring 2011, the state replaced its broad 10th-grade math High School Proficiency Exam with two End of Course Assessments. Now, students take the End of Course 1 assessment at the end of their algebra course, no matter what their grade level; they take the End of Course 2 assessment at the end of their geometry course, no matter what their grade level.
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