Mulberry/Pleasant View Bi-County School District, has been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as having a schools where students demonstrated high growth on the ACT Aspire in spring 2017! The OEP creates an annual report entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards, and this year OEP is recognizing schools with high student growth, as growth is one of the best indicators of the positive impact that your school is having on students.
In the report released Wednesday, June 13, the following awards were noted:
Pleasant View Campus:
- Beating the Odds! Statewide High ELA Growth: Middle Level
- Beating the Odds! High ELA Growth: Middle Level (Northwest Region)
Awards are based on the 2017 content growth score calculated by the Arkansas Department of Education. These growth scores reflect how much students at the school improved from 2016 compared to how much they were expected to grow considering prior achievement. The awards are based on Overall growth, as well as for growth in Math and English Language Arts separately.