Each year Pomona Elementary is required to develop goals related to improving student achievement. Our Individual School Improvement Plan was developed using data collected from last year. Our Principal Advisory Council, in conjunction with our recommendations regarding teachers and administration, reviews and makes recommendations regarding the plan for improvement. Our goals for this school year are outlined below.

Building Goal: To increase student proficiency in reading, math and writing across all grade levels.

Kindergarten: 90% of kindergarten students will score at least 75/80 on the May KPA math assessment.

First Grade: We will provide reading instruction so that 95% of 1st graders will make one or more year's growth as evidenced by the DRA 2 by May 2010.

Second Grade: We will provide reading instruction so that 95% of 2nd graders will make one or more year's growth as evidenced by the DRA 2 by May of 2010.

Third Grade: We will provide reading instruction so that 80% of third grade learners will be proficient in Reading CSAP. We will also provide writing instruction to insure that there is at least a 3% increase in writing scores above the state average as it relates to Spring 2009 CSAP.

Fourth Grade: 75% of all 4th graders will meet or exceed at least one year's growth in the area of writing by May of 2010 as measured by the CSAP Performance Level Breakdown Report and classroom assessment.

Fifth Grade: We will implement writing for a variety of purposes including paragraph writing so 73% of our fifth graders will meet or exceed expected growth as measured by the 2010 Writing CSAP.

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Research has shown that the first fifteen minutes of the day are crucial for children's learning in school, and that it is educationally detrimental to students who are absent at the start of each day and miss hearing instructions and participating in the beginning of lessons.

In addition to losing valuable educational preparation time, it is also distracting to the rest of the class when a student enters the room after the class has started and the teacher has to stop instruction to bring the late arriving student up to speed with the rest of the class.

We at Pomona would like to ask that you as parents make it a priority to get your children to school on time, so their day starts on a positive note and they come to school ready to be Star Students.