2007 Standard of Excellence Awards
St. Francis Community Schools in Top 5% in State
In January of 2002, the federal government put into law the No Child Left Behind Act. Basically what this law says is that states are responsible to get every child within their educational system to a certain academic performance level in reading and math by the year 2014.
Kansas responded to the federal mandate by developing standardized tests to administer to Kansas students once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, in order to measure student performance levels. Depending on how well students perform on the tests, they are classified into one of five categories: 1) ACADEMIC WARNING; 2) APPROACHES STANDARD; 3) MEETS STANDARD; 4) EXCEEDS STANDARD; AND 5) EXEMPLARY.
The Kansas State Department of Education provides certificates to students who scored in the highest possible category of EXEMPLARY on the assessments. Between the boys and girls game with Dundy County, Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Schiltz presented certificates from the Kansas State Department of Education to the St. Francis students who scored EXEMPLARY on last year’s assessments.
Students receiving recognition as EXEMPLARY students are listed below:
Seniors – tested in reading, math, and writing
Josh Carpenter – reading
Cassie Dankenbring – writing
Heather Hnizdil – reading and writing
Katelyn Jones – writing
Holly Keller – reading and writing
Dara Loyd – reading
Kattie Marin – reading
Sara Miller – reading and writing
Justin Sherlock – reading
Gavin Smull – reading and writing
Lauren Zweygardt – reading and writing
Juniors – tested in reading and math
Sidnee Crabtree – reading
Courtney Douthit – reading and math
Elizabeth Gienger – reading
Andrea Holzwarth – reading
Sam Sowers – reading and math
Matt Whitmore – reading
Hailey Woodcox – reading
Sophomores – not tested
Freshmen – tested in reading, writing, and math
Alex Draper – math
Garrett Figgins – reading and writing
Brendan Finley – reading and math
Mikaela Grace – reading, math, and writing
Christina Hilt – reading and math
Jodie Hilt – math
Shayla Hilt – reading, math, and writing
Brooks Hobrock – reading and math
Brett Lampe – reading, math, and writing
Alyssa Lee – reading, math, and writing
Ally Marin – reading, math, and writing
Trevor Reed – math
Aubree Schlepp – reading, math, and writing
Cody Sherlock – reading, math, and writing
8th Graders – tested in reading and math
Jonathan Butler – math
Kaitlin Figgins – math
Allison Grice – reading
Nathan Lamb – reading
Ross Nicklos – reading and math
Caitlin Northrup – reading and math
Stephanie Perry – math
Chauntell Peter – reading
Isaac Schiltz – reading and math
Christina Schoenrogge – reading and math
Matt Tygart – reading
Logan Whitmore – reading and math
Brock Zweygardt – math
Ty Zweygardt – math
7th Graders – tested in reading and math
Taylor Archibald – reading
Lucas Carmichael – reading and math
Thomas Douthit – reading and math
Zach gienger – reading and math
Nariah Hamilton – math
Kattie Lambert – reading and math
Joey McCormick – math
Chloe Miller – reading
Allyson Northrup – math
Sarah Whitmore – reading and math
Dylan Wolaver – reading
6th Graders - tested in reading, math, and writing
Gaten Cooper – reading
Randee Grover – reading
Kattie McDanel – reading and writing
Bailey Merklin - writing
Derek Queen – reading
Hannah Rider – reading and writing
Mason Schiltz – reading and writing
5th Graders – tested in reading and math
Kyla Bandel – math
Mariah Beikman – math
Tanner Gilliland – reading
Echo Jones – reading
Ashlee Orth – reading
Kalin Ritchey – reading
Lauren Samuelson – reading
Justice Wiley – reading
4th Graders - tested in reading and math
Garrett Brunk – reading and math
Jacob Church – math
Emily Elfers – reading and math
Jude Faulkender – reading and math
CarolEve Harris – reading
Lane Hobrock – reading
Kattie Jenik – math
Maggie Lambert – reading and math
Journey Lee – reading
Jason Owens – reading
Justin Pacheco – reading and math
Kayla Reed – reading and math
Travis Rogers – reading
Kylie Sherlock – math
Hannah Stafford – reading and math
Sydney Sundstrom – reading
McKenzie Taylor – reading
Hannah Wolff – reading and math
These students are in approximately the top 25% of all students in the state based on the assessment scores. Congratulations to all of you!
In addition to the individual exemplary awards, several classes of students and their teachers received the Standard of Excellence award which is given to classes of students for outstanding achievement on the assessments as a whole group.
The following teachers received Kansas State Department of Education Standard of Excellence awards:
Sandy Smull – Mrs. Smull and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 3rd grade reading
Cindy Wiley – Mrs. Wiley and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 3rd grade math
Becky McAtee – Mrs. McAtee and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 4th grade reading
Lynnette Nolan – Mrs. Nolan and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 5th grade reading
Julie Wolters – Mrs. Wolters and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 6th grade reading and 6th grade math
Marti Schlittenhardt – Mrs. Schlittenhardt and her class received the Standard of Excellence for 7th grade reading
Carla Schiltz – Mrs. Schiltz and her classes received the Standard of Excellence for 7th grade math and 8th grade math
Lisa Gibson – Mrs. Gibson and her classes received the Standard of Excellence for 8th grade reading and 8th grade writing
David Morrow – Mr. Morrow and his classes received the Standard of Excellence for high school reading and high school writing
The State department also gives building level Standard of Excellence awards for schools that score at high levels throughout the building in a particular subject. St. Francis Elementary school received a Building of Excellence award for Reading in 2007 which goes to all the elementary teachers involved in reading.
St. Francis Jr. – Sr. high school was awarded the building level standard of excellence award for reading, which goes to Mrs. Schlittenhardt, Mrs. Gibson, and Mr. Morrow.
The Jr. – Sr. high school was also awarded the building level standard of excellence award for math, which goes to Mrs. Schiltz and Mr. Dinkel.
The Jr. – Sr. high school was awarded the building level standard of excellence award for writing which goes to Mrs. Gibson and Mr. Morrow. This is an outstanding accomplishment by all of these teachers and their students! Congratulations!
St. Francis Community Schools has also received the Kansas State Department of Education Governor’s Achievement Award for 2006-2007. This award goes to St. Francis Jr. – Sr. High School for receiving building level standards of excellence in reading and math, meeting Adequate Yearly Progress requirements, and for being in the top 5% of high schools state wide.
Congratulations to Mr. Carmichael, our teachers, and our students for this prestigious award!
To view a slide show of the awards presentation, please use the "photo" link on the left of this page and then click on "Assessment Awards 11/30/2007."
2007 Standard of Excellence Awards
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