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Creekview Elementary School

"Our scores jumped 14 percentage points after the first six months of implementation. Thanks to SuccessMaker we have maintained our scores above district and state averages."
     —Jess Banning, Principal, Creekview Elementary

Highlights

• Creekview Elementary met all Federal AYP goals for 2002-2003.
   
• With SuccessMaker from Pearson Digital Learning, students in the first and third grades finished the school year at 90 percent or above in Reading and Math.
   
• Scores on the Utah Core Math Test have remained above district and state averages in Math and Language Arts since SuccessMaker was implemented in 1999.
   

Profile

Creekview Elementary School is located in Price, Utah; a rural community with an economy primarily influenced by coal mining and tourism. Forty-nine percent of the students receive free and reduced-priced lunches. The ethnic population at Creekview consists of seventy-five percent Caucasian, twenty percent Hispanic, and five percent from other minorities. The elementary school serves students in kindergarten through grade six and enrolls 450 students. Creekview is part of the Carbon School District, enrolling 4,000 students in 10 sites.

Creekview Elementary School

Challenge

Creekview elementary students needed to raise their test scores in math. The school was also not using its computer labs effectively and needed a solution.

Goal

The goal at Creekview is for ninety percent of kindergarten to third grade students to be at grade level and meet all AYP (adequate yearly progress) goals.

Solution

In an effort to help raise test scores and use the computer labs more effectively, Creekview Elementary School implemented SuccessMaker courseware from Pearson Digital Learning in February of 1999. The purchase was made possible by using a combination of Title 1, Federal, and District Board of Education funds. Currently, 445 students in kindergarten through grade six use the program for math and reading twice a week for 25 minutes a session.

Jess Banning, Principal

Teachers become involved by monitoring their students on SuccessMaker, and especially like the customized worksheets produced by the SuccessMaker management program. Leigh Ludington, a fifth grade teacher at Creekview says, "As a teacher, I love the individualized distributive practice that SuccessMaker provides my students." SuccessMaker helps teachers know what areas to remediate and prescribe instruction. It provides consistent practice for students along with more individualized instruction.

Students at Creekview enjoy SuccessMaker because they can see their progress on a regular basis, and principal Jess Banning thinks it’s a great tool for encouragement and motivation.

Each month, the student levels and gains report from SuccessMaker is printed and given to Principal Banning. The students with the highest gains are rewarded for a job well done.

Creekview Elementary students working on SuccessMaker

Results

Since implementing SuccessMaker at Creekview Elementary, there has been success on many fronts. For one, students in grades one through five averaged a 14 point gain on the Utah Core Math Test after the initial implementation, and scores have maintained above district average for the last five years. In addition to math gains, students have also increased their language arts scores and kept them above the district average.

For the 2002-2003 school year, all Federal AYP goals were met, and 90 percent of students in grades one through three reached grade level or above.

When speaking of SuccessMaker and the how it has helped his students achieve, Jess Banning articulates, "The proven success sells itself."
 

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