Did You Know…? Ash Grove Academics and Awards

Did You Know…?

Ash Grove Academics and Awards
Did you know that…?

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  Ash Grove Schools has received the Distinction in Performance award from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for nine years in a row—every year that the award has been available? Did you know that no other area school and few schools in the whole state have been awarded Distinction in Performance as many times as Ash Grove?
  

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  Students in Ash Grove have some of the best achievement test scores in the state of Missouri? Did you know that when calculated cumulatively, Ash Grove’s MAP and End of Course Exam cumulative index scores are better than:
  

The state average by 365 index points Willard by 147 index points

Republic by 290 index points Springfield by 130 index points

Branson by 22 points Strafford by 231 index points

Fair Grove by 255 index points Marionville by 759 index points

Stockton by 317 index points Pleasant Hope by 742 index points

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  Ash Grove has one of the best attendance rates and graduation rates in southwest Missouri?
  

School Attendance Rate Graduation Rate
Mo. State Average 95.1% 85%

Ash Grove 96% 95.7%

Springfield 94.5% 81%

Nixa 95.9% 90.9%

Willard 95.3% 90.9%

Republic 95% 86.8%

Ozark 95.4% 84.5%

Branson 94.7% 91.8%

Fair Grove 95.5% 89.8%

Pleasant Hope 95.5% 82.7%

Rogersville 94.8% 91.9%

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  The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recently gave Ash Grove a perfect score of 14 out of 14 on the Annual Performance Report with no deficiencies whatsoever? Did you know that Ash Grove was one of the few schools in the area to receive this score?
  

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  The Ash Grove School Board has been finalists as the Missouri School Board Association’s “School Board of the Year” three times in the last five years? Did you know that they are finalists again this year?
  

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  The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education published a list of “Top Ten” highest performing schools in the state based on testing data for the years 2001-2008 (http://www.dese.mo.gov/divimprove/assess/TopTen/)? Did you know that schools from the Ash Grove R-IV School District were featured nine times on the list—more than any other district our size in southwest Missouri?
  

1. 
   8^th Grade Social Studies in 2001 (Ash Grove Jr. High)
   
2. 
   6^th Grade Communication Arts in 2006 (Ash Grove Elementary)
   
3. 
   5^th Grade Communication Arts in 2007 (Bois D’ Arc Elementary)
   
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   6^th Grade Communication Arts in 2007 (Ash Grove Elementary)
   
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   7^th Grade Communication Arts in 2007 (Ash Grove Jr. High)
   
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   7^th Grade Math in 2007 (Ash Grove Jr. High)
   
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   6^th Grade Communication Arts in 2008 (Bois D’ Arc Elementary
   
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   6^th Grade Math in 2008 (Bois D’ Arc Elementary)
   
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   7^th Grade Communication Arts in 2008 (Ash Grove Jr. High)
   

Times Recognized on “Top Ten” List
Ash Grove: 9 Willard: 0

Republic: 0 Nixa: 12

Ozark: 0 Strafford: 2

Fair Grove: 6 Clever: 0

Branson: 1

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  You should be absolutely proud of the Ash Grove R-IV School District and what it accomplishes and offers its students?