Open house, football game will mark NC centennial
North Central High School will host an open house to celebrate the school’s centennial, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. There will be a program in the gym at 10 a.m.
Friday night’s home football game (against East Valley) has been declared the “centennial football game.” It starts at 5:30 p.m. at Albi Stadium.
North Central opened in September 1908 with 200 students.
Watching the clock
Don’t panic if you forget what time your kids’ school starts or begins on any given day. Spokane Public Schools posts a “bell schedule” online.
Go to the “Parent/Student Resources” section at www.spokaneschools.org, then scroll down to “School Time Schedules.”
A hint: most schools start 30 minutes late on Thursdays.
Brainiacs
The College Board reports that two Washington residents earned perfect scores on all three sections of last year’s SAT college entrance exams. But the nonprofit organization, which administers the test, won’t provide names or hometowns, saying it’s confidential information. So there’s no way of knowing (unless we’re contacted by a reader) whether Spokane has an academic hero.
Further details from the SAT results released late last month:
•204 Washington students and 12 in Idaho earned perfect scores on the critical reading test
•156 from Washington and four from Idaho scored perfectly in math
•86 from Washington and four from Idaho scored perfectly in writing.
Each test is worth 800 points. Average scores nationwide are 502 for critical reading, 515 for mathematics and 494 for writing.
Education acronym of the week
There’s been quite a stir for a few weeks about whether schools have made AYP. The acronym stands for “adequate yearly progress” and is a tool for determining whether schools are living up to the guidelines spelled out by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Schools are judged on the performance of up to 37 standards for nine “subgroups” of students, including minority groups, students enrolled in special education, those still learning English. One subgroup is called “all.”
To find out whether your school made AYP, go to www.k12.wa.us and click on the link to “school report card.”
There’s a pulldown to pick any school district in the state. And after you’ve selected a school district you can use the same pulldown to pick a specific school. You’ll see which subgroups met standards, which fell short and which were exempted because of too few students.
Education number of the week
33 – Percentage of children, ages 6 to 11, who participate in lessons of some sort, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It could be music, dance or language, computers or religion.