Wednesday, January 25, 2017
YOUNGSTOWN
Two Youngstown city schools exceeded all schools nationally on the Southern Regional Education Board 2016 teacher survey.
Rayen Early College Middle School and Chaney STEM/VPA Campus each received the 2016 Making Middle Grades Work Top Performing School Recognition.
The recognition is based on the performance of students on 12 of 15 indices on the Making Middle Grades Work student and teacher surveys.
There are 6,324 teachers from 242 schools in the middle-grades network. Teachers indicated that the school has an intensive emphasis in continuous improvement.
Diana Rogers, High Schools That Work executive director, presented banners to the schools Tuesday afternoon.
She commended both schools on winning the recognition. The surveys revealed both schools exceeded all schools nationally on the Southern Regional Education Board survey.
“It is apparent things are working out well here,” Rogers said.
School district CEO Krish Mohip said he is just amazed.
“We are at that level of some of the best schools in the city, county and a pretty large radius,” he said.
Mohip said although some of the “craziness” makes headlines, he wants people to know it is not reflective of what’s happening within the schools.
“What’s happening in our buildings is, we have some of the most intelligent children in this country here with some of the best teachers we can find that exist in this world,” he said. “We all come together and are doing some amazing things. My hope for this entire district is we can recreate what’s happening here at Rayen Early College Middle School and take that to the rest of the district.”
He added that he knows Youngstown has the leaders, teachers and students to make that happen.
“We are going to show all the other students in all the other schools what’s possible because if [these] schools can do this, that means all schools can do it,” Mohip said.
Rogers said thanks goes to the leadership, teachers and students for their hard work and achievement.