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Volume 18, Number 50
Friday, December 15, 2023
North Haven gets top grades from state By Michael Savino Special to The Citizen
Balance Assessment Consortium, or SBAC, and SAT tests for the district.
The North Haven School District saw its testing scores improve compared to the rest of its group, while three schools earned “distinction” honors from the state.
District wide, 54% of students met the proficiency SBAC standards in Math, 63% did so in English and language arts, and 66% met the mark in science. The statewide averages were 42.5% in math and 48.5% in each of the other two subjects.
Superintendent Patrick Stirk told the Board of Education during it’s Nov. 9 meeting that the district was “well above state average” in testing at all grade levels.
The North Haven Town Hall is seen here on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. Bailey Wright, Record-Journal file photo
SBAC tests are given to students in grades three through eight.
Three elementary schools, meanwhile, were among 154 “schools of distinction” named by the state Department of Education in accountability reports earlier in the month.
North Haven also moved up in rankings across its District Reference Group, which the Education Department uses to compare the town’s performance against other similar school districts.
Stirk presented the school board with testing results for both the Smarter
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Busy Bee: Pierpoint Apiaries bringing sweet honey to town By Heather Sillins Special to The Citizen
After a lifetime of being deeply fascinated by bees, a North Haven man has begun his very own apiary. Richard Pierpont has always been uniquely curious about bees. He even recalls his summers as a child spent trying to catch them when he was swimming in the pool. Pierpont has dreamed of working with bees for years and recently decided it was time to truly indulge in this interest, so he started “Pierpont Apiaries,” his own honey farm. Much of what Pierpont came to understand about beekeeping was derived from dedicating hours to reading articles and watching YouTube videos. He credited Rollie Hannan of Hannan Honey LLC as a mentor who guided him through challenges he faced along the way, such as having a hive of bees that laid unfertilized eggs in the absence of a queen bee. To begin his apiary, Pierpont purchased See Honey, A6
Bees busily at work this past summer at Pierpont Apiaries in North Haven.
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