The Top 10 Reasons to Be Excited About the New School Year Opening School Report Dr. Steven L. Walts, Superintendent of Schools September 7, 2016
Number 10: Clean and Well- Maintained Facilities Our support staff cleaned and prepared 10,800,000 square feet of building space in preparation for the new school year 2
Number 9: New Schools And other facilities open on schedule and within budget Wilson Elementary School Colgan High School Activity Rooms Kerrydale ES Enterprise ES Tyler ES Rippon MS Addition Independent Hill Maintenance Building 3
Number 9: New Schools The New Hampton Middle School 4
Number 8: New Schools Underway And other improvements Divisionwide New Independent Hill Instructional Facility Potomac Shores Elementary School School Additions Belmont ES (10 rooms) Henderson ES (10 rooms) Neabsco ES (8 rooms) Lake Ridge MS (13 rooms) Renewals Antietam ES McAuliffe ES Mullen ES Westridge ES Lake Ridge MS Saunders MS 5
Number 7: Technology Support All schools are on inet, with wireless access Over the last year More than 7,000 new computers installed, with over 45,000 on the PWCS network Almost 700 interactive whiteboards installed, with almost 90% of classrooms now having access BYOD available Divisionwide New for this year PWCS Future Ready integrating technology into instruction Divisionwide bandwidth doubling from 1Gb to 2Gb 6
Number 6: Student Learning More than 11,100 students attended summer school for remediation, enrichment, extended school year, and high school academic programs 7
Number 5: Prepared Staff More than 11,000 participants attended almost 1,100 professional development courses this past summer, in preparation for the new school year Many staff attended multiple courses. 8
Number 4: Best & Brightest PWCS has approximately 11,000 employees We welcomed more than 800 teachers new to PWCS Almost 90,000 job applications were received this past year including more than 43,000 certified (e.g., teacher) applications 9
Number 3: Support Services On the first day of school: 20,500 breakfasts and 54,250 lunches served 798 buses were on the road, and traveled over 55,000 miles More than 60,000 students rode the buses 10
Number 2: Celebrating Success All 11 high schools are in the top 10 percent nationwide Washington Post Osbourn Park, Battlefield, Patriot, and Hylton High Schools recognized for being among the best from 21,000 Nationwide, earning Silver Medals US News & World Report 11
Number 2 Success continued The 2015 on-time graduation rate for PWCS continued to improve to 91.4% The percentage of PWCS students earning Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge qualifying scores continues to far exceed the national average Parkside MS approved as Cambridge International PD site the 1 st in the nation 12
Number 2 Success continued Since 2005-06, the number of students taking the SAT test has increased by 38% and the number of students taking the ACT test has increased by 59% In 2015-16, 28% of high school students (grades 9-12) were enrolled in at least one advanced courses (AP, IB, Cambridge) 13
Number 2 Success continued 26,145 The number of college credit hours earned by PWCS students in 2016 by earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams $38,168,075 The amount of scholarship money earned by the PWCS class of 2016, up $7 million over 2015 During the past five years, students have earned $179,349,030 in scholarships 14
Number 2 Success continued 21% of students in PWCS in 2015-16 were English learners Increasing numbers of English learners identified for Gifted services (14% increase from 2014-15 to 2015-16) Over 25% of English learners were identified to exit the EL services program in 2015-16 15
Number 1: Our Students We welcomed over 88,000 students to the new school year, approximately 1,000 additional students PWCS continues to be second largest in Virginia 35 th largest in the nation 16
My Sincere Thanks to Everyone It takes a team to be successful and our teachers, support staff, administrators, School Board, civic groups, community, business partners, elected officials, parents/guardians, and students have come together to help build our World-Class schools right here in Prince William County. 17
Welcome Back to School 18
The Top 10 Reasons to Be Excited About the New School Year Opening School Report Dr. Steven L. Walts, Superintendent of Schools September 7, 2016