Executive Summary. Lakewood Ranch High School

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1 Manatee County School District Mr. Craig Little 5500 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard Bradenton, FL Document Generated On February 16, 2017

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Description of the School 2 School's Purpose 4 Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement 5 Additional Information 7

3 Introduction Every school has its own story to tell. The context in which teaching and learning takes place influences the processes and procedures by which the school makes decisions around curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The context also impacts the way a school stays faithful to its vision. Many factors contribute to the overall narrative such as an identification of stakeholders, a description of stakeholder engagement, the trends and issues affecting the school, and the kinds of programs and services that a school implements to support student learning. The purpose of the Executive Summary (ES) is to provide a school with an opportunity to describe in narrative form the strengths and challenges it encounters. By doing so, the public and members of the school community will have a more complete picture of how the school perceives itself and the process of self-reflection for continuous improvement. This summary is structured for the school to reflect on how it provides teaching and learning on a day to day basis. Page 1

4 Description of the School Describe the school's size, community/communities, location, and changes it has experienced in the last three years. Include demographic information about the students, staff, and community at large. What unique features and challenges are associated with the community/communities the school serves? The in Manatee County, opened in 1998 in Bradenton, Florida, United States. It is a public high school and is named after the housing development it borders. is both a suburban and rural high school serving the needs of diverse communities. These communities (consisting of primarily professional families) include the up-scale neighborhoods in Lakewood Ranch proper to the south, to the ranches and farms of Myakka City to the east. For many years the area has seen great growth in populations and business. The Lakewood Ranch area continues to have the highest growth in all of Manatee County. The overall growth in the Lakewood Ranch Area covers all areas from residential and commercial construction to the development of upper level education institutions. The Lakewood Ranch area currently has twelve new housing developments under construction. The current enrollment at is The school enrollment has continued to increase as each year passes and represents the growth of the overall area. The student breakdowns are as follows: CATEGORY ** SUB-CATEGORY All Grades PK Total / % Total / % Total / % Total / % Total / % Total / % Grade Level 2,417/100% 630 / 26% 580 / 24% 583 / 24% 605 / 25% 19 / 1% Gender Male 1,209 / 50% Female 1,208 / 50% Race White non-hispanic Black non-hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native Asian or Pacific Islander Hispanic Multi-Racial ELL LEP in LEP classes K-12 not tested and pending Tested ineligible Exited on two year follow-up Still in follow-up reports Exited after 2 year follow-up Not applicable ESE 521 Lunch Program Page 2

5 Medicaid 2 SNAP 1 Homeless 15 The Lakewood Ranch Staff is a proud staff that represents a tremendous diversity in level of experience, coupled with advanced degrees from all over the United States. There are a total of one hundred ten teachers (includes guidance counselors). Our wonderful support staff is made up of fifty- five people that include: custodial, nursing, food service, clerical and aide positions. Our teacher to student ratio falls well within all mandated Florida State laws. The teacher demographic data is below: Teacher Education Demographic Teachers Bachelors Degrees Masters Degrees Seeking Additional Education (Advanced Degree) Teacher Experience Demographic <10 years experience Years Experience > 20 Years Experience ** In the prepared executive summary, a great deal of this information was presented in table format. When transferring into ASSIST, the tables were lost. I will the original executive summary with tables prior to your arrival. Page 3

6 School's Purpose Provide the school's purpose statement and ancillary content such as mission, vision, values, and/or beliefs. Describe how the school embodies its purpose through its program offerings and expectations for students. OUR MISSION, with the support of staff, parents, and the community, will strive to inspire each student to recognize and achieve his or her maximum potential through academic excellence, personal integrity, and responsible citizenship. OUR VISION The vision of is to provide students a rigorous educational experience that equips them for college or career readiness in a global job market. Page 4

7 Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement Describe the school's notable achievements and areas of improvement in the last three years. Additionally, describe areas for improvement that the school is striving to achieve in the next three years. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: continues to be one to the top performing high schools not just in Manatee County but on the West Coast of Florida. The culture created by a partnership between students, parents and staff along with the school's wonderful traditions are at the heart of this high performance. has, and continues to set the bar for performance in academics, sports, music, drama, technology and all extra-curricular activities. Our students and staff are consistently awarded honors for their hard work and dedication to every endeavor. Academically, has forged a reputation for excellence in Advanced Placement Classes, Dual Enrollment participation, Industry and Technology Certifications, FSA scores and overall performance in state rankings. We very proudly boast a graduation rate of ninety-four percent. Which ranks among the top in the state of Florida. Athletically, continues to perform at the highest level academically and competitively. Lakewood Ranch High School was awarded the two highest honors given by the Florida High School Athletic Association. The Mustangs placed first in the Academic Team Champions and the Floyd E. Lay Sunshine Cup, All Sports Award. was the only public school in the State of Florida to ever win both awards in the same year. The tradition of winning the academic state championship is now in its sixth year. 's music, drama and technology departments continue to finish high in all state and national competitions. Lakewood Ranch students have a wonderful and diverse opportunity to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities that include: athletics, music, drama, Key Club, SGA, FCA, Poetry, TSA, and many more. AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT: uses multiple sources to determine the school's areas of improvement. These sources include staff feedback, administrative surveys, state standardized testing data, district created benchmark data, evaluation trends/patterns. We have compiled this information and broke it down into a few areas, which are provided below: 1. Mathematics-This past year, learning gains in mathematics is an academic area where we were below the state and district average. This has been addressed through multiple strategies and has been closely monitored. 2. Staff morale staff feedback presented a feeling by some teachers concern about morale. Currently the district and the union are at impasse relating to the teachers' current year's contract. Also, there has been a major increase in the insurance premiums for those employees who carry dependents on their health insurance plans. 3. Perception of Discipline- has a long history of being perceived in the community as a school that lacks student management. During the past few years, administration has created polices to consistently enforce rules and procedures for our students. This includes closely monitoring our discipline matrix and performing multiple K-9 searches throughout the school year. 4. Hiring-Hiring highly qualified instructors has become very difficult. During the past hiring season we have had only a very few highly qualified applicants apply for our teaching vacancies. Many times these potential applicants withdraw their names from the hiring pool when they discover they will only be permitted to carry over seven years' worth of experience on our pay scale. Page 5

8 5. Student Progression- For the past several years, there has been an increase in the amount of students who enroll at LRHS ninth graders with multiple high school credits. In many cases these students take Florida Virtual School courses beyond their normal seven credits per year, which exceed the normal progress, and leave many of these students looking for courses. 6. Overcrowding- was built to occupy 1799 students. We currently have 2415 students enrolled. Continued development in this area shows enrollment will be increasing in the next few years. Page 6

9 Additional Information Provide any additional information you would like to share with the public and community that were not prompted in the previous sections. 's culture of success permeates all areas of our school and reaches into our community. It does not matter whether the endeavor is academic, athletic, extra-curricular, club, performance based our staff and students work tirelessly to continue to culture of success at the "Ranch". While we cannot claim to have success in each and every aspect of our school, it is not difficult to see that across all areas our students and staff are truly proud to be a Mustangs. The items below indicate a snapshot of recent successes: STORIES OF SUCCESS: 2016 Graduation Class (Results of 2016 Senior Survey) Attending 4 Year College/University in Florida 141 Attending 4 Year College/University Out of State 44 48% of graduating class going directly to 4 year College/University Attending Community College 140 Career and Technical School: 39 Military: 9 Workforce (no post-secondary school): 9 Mission Field: 3 The graduating class of 2016 had a total of 345 Industry Certifications over their four year high school career. 124 students earned a certificate of completion for taking 3 or more years in a Career and Technical Course and attended more than 54 different Colleges and Universities (including 4 Ivy League Universities). 96% of the 2016 graduates are attending Post-Secondary School or have joined Military (3% increase from 2015 class) FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT: The Arts Collaboration students have provided 546 hours of mentoring and tutoring for Braden River Elementary students thus far for this school year. They also participated in the adopt A Family with Salvation Army. They took care of the wishes and gifts for two families for Christmas SILVER STARS DANCE TEAM: SilverStar Highlights: 2014: 2nd place home routine UDA, superior performance 2015: MA Superior perform in Pom, choreography award, spirit award, superior performance, bid to nationals 2015: 1st place home routine UDA, choreography 2016: Superior ranking NDTC Hip-Hop and Semi- finalist in High Kick 2016: 1st place home routine UDA, choreography award, superior performance, bid to nationals 2017: Superior rankings in NDTC Pom and Jazz. Ranked (32 out of 87) ADVANCED PLACEMENT TREND DATA (LAST FIVE YEARS): Page 7

10 LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOL AGRICULTURE-TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT: Florida's Finest Chapter (top 10% of the state) Florida's Finest Chapter 9 (top 10% of the state) National Chapter Award ( 2 stars out of 3) National Chapter Award (2 stars out of 3) th in state for Extemporaneous Public Speaking th in state for Artistic Arrangement Ornamental Co-hort Demonstration th in state for Citrus Evaluation th in State for Floriculture Judging th in state for Vegetable ID and evaluation seniors awarded the State FFA Degree and 1 graduate awarded the American Degree st in state for Landscaping Ornamental Hort Demonstration th in state for Artistic Arrangement Ornamental Hort Demonstration th in state for Safe Tractor Operations LAKEWOOD RANCH "MINI-MUSTANGS": Mini Mustang is a Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten class of twenty 4 year olds. This program prepares children with pre-readiness skills that are needed for kindergarten. It also serves as a laboratory classroom for the Early Childhood Education program. Our high school students gain valuable experiences as well as hours towards their industry certification. Mini-Mustang Awards 2010/ % proficient in Kindergarten 2011/ % proficient in Kindergarten 2012/ % proficient in Kindergarten CHEERLEADING: Our cheerleaders have been to every state championship since 2008, including one regional championship Our final state rankings are as follows: rd small coed rd small coed th extra large th extra large rd extra large rd extra large REGIONAL CHAMPS th medium th medium JROTC: JROTC Input highlights from the last 4-5 years: 1. 50% growth in JROTC student population 2. Over $2 million in Scholarships 80% awarded as ROTC or Service Academy Appointments. 3. Extracurricular Teams: a. Raider Team: State Qualifiers 2014, 3rd Place Districts 2015 Page 8

11 b. Orienteering Team(New team): Suncoast Champions 2016 (Team's Second Season) c. Rifle Team: 3rd Place County Championships 2014/ Community Service hours: Average over 1200 hrs annually conducting over 25 annual events 5. School Service: Average in excess of 65 school support events annually totaling over 300 hours of school support annually 6. Sons of American Revolution Orator 1st Place Voice of Democracy runner up Increase of cadet involvement of over 120% 9. Added 2 annual parades to support the Lakewood Ranch and Myakka City Community 10. Scored a 97.25% on the JROTC Program for Accreditation inspection. TSA: 2016 State Conference: 1st Place Wins in the Transportation Model, Animatronics, Future Technology Teacher, Extemporaneous Speech, Technical Sketching and Application 2nd Place Wins in the Biotechnology Design, Music Production, Prepared Presentation, Software Development 3rd Place Wins in the Engineering Design, Children's Stories, Essays on Technology, 2016 National Conference 1st Place Win in the Transportation Modeling, 2nd Place Win in the Animatronics 3rd Place Win in Engineering Design 2015 State Conference 1st Place Win in Software Development 2nd Place Win in Transportation Modeling and Animatronics 3rd Place Win in Chapter Team 2015 National Conference 2nd Place Win in Animatronics 3rd Place Win in Transportation Modeling THEATRE DEPARTMENT: The Mission Statement of the Theatre Department is to enrich students' lives through performance and theatre education with challenging learning activities that engage students' minds, hearts, and bodies so that students will learn to appreciate and understand the role and influence of the performing arts on culture and society, and through this enrichment can attain higher levels of academic achievement, gain self-esteem, and higher levels of empathy and tolerance for others. The LRHS Theatre Department gives students many opportunities in acting, musical theatre, dance, and playwriting, both in an out of the classroom, which has led to years of achievement. Each year we present Cabaret Shows, full Musical Productions, One-Act Plays, and at the end of each year our Playwriting Marathon and Costume Design and Stage Makeup Showcase in which all students in Theatre classes produce their own original works for the public. This is their Final Exam Showcase and Porfolio. Over the past (17) years, students have received hundreds of accolades and awards competing in district and state level thespian competitions with the International Thespian Society in the areas of acting, musical theatre, pantomime, costume design, stage makeup, playwriting, one-act plays, and mainstages. Many of our students are recipients of thousands of dollars in scholarship and talent-based scholarship and financial aid in many of the top, prestigious performing arts schools in the nation, and we have many students who have Page 9

12 successful careers as professional actors on stage, in film and television as well as in arts administration, stage management, costume design, and theatre technology. The LRHS Theatre Department is also very community minded and frequently performs for the school and community at many events. We also have a summer camp program, Acting Up Performing Arts Summer Camp each summer for the past (15) which serves students kindergarten through rising 9th graders. This summer camp exposes young students to the performing arts in the areas of acting, art, dance, and music. The students spend (3) weeks working on a Broadway Jr. musical production that is performed publically at the end of the camp. It is also a community service project for our high school students since they work as counselors at the camp program. Currently, our award-winning department is working on a devised theatrical piece which is an original musical production written by the students. The students are working with professional teaching artists from TADA! Youth Theatre in New York City. This original work will be performed in our theatre on February 17 and 18, 2017, and then the students will be performing this incredible work Off-Broadway on March 20, 2017 in New York City. HOSA REGIONAL COMPETITION AT MTC: The following students won an award for their competitive event in 2016: Derek Breiner - Medical Spelling 2nd place Jason Breiner - Medical Terminology 2nd place Sophia Santoro - Medical Terminology 4th place Anthony Pistella - Medical Math 4th place Carina Ferraris - Medical Assisting 1st place Cameron Willis & Nicolette Ngov - Public Health (team) 2nd place Ben Reichbach - Extemporaneous Health Poster 2nd place Regan Brahler - Extemporaneous Health Poster 1st place Allison Fox - Extemporaneous Writing 1st place Elena Louwe Kooijmans - Prepared Speaking 1st place Anneliese Pruim - Prepared Speaking 5th place Kelsey Le, Adina Mayo, Morgan DeGlopper Page 10