"Just for Kids" Honors Petersburg ISD

Just For The Kids Honors Petersburg Schools With “High Performing” Designation

Petersburg ISD has recently been honored by Just for the Kids, an organization sponsored by the National Center for Educational Achievement, for high performance in math at the secondary campus, and writing at the elementary campus.  Petersburg ISD is the only Region 17 school district with multiple campuses receiving such an honor.

The National Center for Educational Achievement identifies consistently higher performing schools in many states across the country. The schools identified by NCEA are those that exhibit outstanding performance across multiple grades and years. As the foundation of NCEA's Best Practice research, the behaviors of these high-performers are compared with those of average-performing schools in order to determine the unique practices of the most successful campuses. At the core of the NCEA identification process are two fundamental beliefs about the qualities of a higher performing school:

1. Consistency: Higher performing schools meet a more stringent set of criteria than the schools listed in each of the top comparable schools tables, some of which only appear successful in that single grade or year.
2. Fairness:
   • Higher Performing Schools are compared with other schools in the same state with similar school-wide demographic levels.
   • The analysis of performance focuses on students who have been in the school for long enough for their achievement level to reflect the effects of that school. In the middle and high school analyses, the prior achievement of each school's students is considered, so that the "value-added" of the school can be assessed.

“We are excited about the recognition”, stated Petersburg ISD superintendent Joey Nichols.  “It is a tribute to the hard work of our principals, teachers, students, and parents”.

More information regarding the organization and its various programs can be found at http://www.just4kids.org/en/texas/.