Everett High School
“School starts Wednesday. I have to decide what I’m going to do for my culminating exhibition (senior project). That’s a pretty big deal at Everett High School. I’m looking forward to going back. There are a lot of people I haven’t seen since school got out.”
– Peter Lee,
12th grade
View Ridge gets state’s attention
Improved scores on state exams at View Ridge Elementary School in Everett have caught the eye of the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
View Ridge’s fourth-grade scores on reading, writing and math sections of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning have shown steady growth the past three years.
The state superintendent included View Ridge on a list of “great achievement stories” across the state when WASL results were released last week.
Between 2002 and 2004, the percentage of View Ridge students reaching the reading standard increased from 70 percent to 82 percent, math increased from 60 percent to 71.6 percent, and writing increased from 57 percent to 66.3 percent.
Principal Karen Koester is especially pleased with the improvement among students in regular classrooms.
Scores among View Ridge’s “highly capable” students remained high, but results among students attending their community school are also on the rise. The highly capable students are from several Everett neighborhoods and account for under 25 percent of the school’s enrollment.
“We are getting better at working together,” Koester said. “I have a staff that will do whatever it takes.”
Koester listed other factors, including a districtwide change in the math curriculum, a homework club with strong teacher support, and an effective after-school tutoring program.
4 students seek school board spot
The Edmonds School Board will interview four candidates tonight the student adviser seat on the board.
The students are seniors Channing Jones of Edmonds-Woodway High School; Madison Davis of Lynnwood High School; and juniors Annie Mesaros and Matt Murphy of Edmonds-Woodway High School.
The student adviser participates in board discussions but does not vote on district issues. The district is considering changing policies in the next year to allow a student adviser from each high school.
New principals start in Stanwood
Three new principals have begun new jobs in the Stanwood-Camano School District.
Jan Schuette has replaced Gary Vegar as Stanwood High School principal.
Vegar became executive director for teaching and learning in the Sunnyside School District in Eastern Washington, while Schuette was an assistant principal at Sunnyside High School.
“We sort of traded,” said Eldon Allen, a Stanwood assistant superintendent. “It was not by design. … We feel we are very lucky to get her.”
Barbara Marsh is the new principal at Stanwood Middle School, and Andy Jones will lead Lincoln Hill High School, an alternative school.
Marsh most recently was Arlington School District’s director of curriculum and instruction.
Jones, from the Tonasket School District, will also teach two classes at Lincoln Hill.
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