Some interes+ng studentbased sta+s+cs, presented in intriguing ways for your edifica+on THE HILLEL-GEIST BY THE NUMBERS (*) All sta+s+cs and date are accurate and up to date, as of January 2013. Approxima+ons used as appropriate. A quick and quirkly look at what’s happening at Hillel 2012-2013 ACADEMIC YEAR
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Some interes+ng student-‐based sta+s+cs, presented in intriguing ways for your edifica+on
THE HILLEL-GEIST
BY THE NUMBERS
(*) All sta+s+cs and date are accurate and up to date, as of January 2013. Approxima+ons used as appropriate.
A quick and quirkly look at what’s happening at Hillel
nearly $750,000 in revenueAt the average U.S. hourly wage of $23.73 per hour, that would be equivalent to
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Money may not grow on trees
Upper school students performed 30,350 hours of community service-‐-‐or nearly 3.46 years’ worth!
HISTORY, TEFILAH AND JEWISH ADVOCACY
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STUDENTS WHO PRESENTLY CHOOSE TO PRAY MINCHA EACH DAY, COMPARED TO NONE LAST YEARSTUDENTS WHO HAVE DIRECTLY ADVOCATED AND LOBBIED POLITICIANS ON BEHALF OF ISRAELSTUDENTS WHO HAVE OTHERWISE ADVOCATED AND LOBBIED ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL9TH GRADERS WHO HAVE SPENT THE SEMESTER LEARNING JEWISH HISTORY IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR ISRAEL TRIP
54,000,000 words each year(The number of words each ECE student is exposed to through five hours of reading each week)
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1,800,000Words students are exposed to
each year by reading or being read to for 20 minutes a day
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EXPOSURE TO THE WRITTEN WORD
282,000Words students are exposed to
each year by reading or being read to for only 5 minutes a day
AVERAGE AMOUNT OF MEDIA INSTRUCTION PER WEEK IN LOWER SCHOOLONE PERIOD PER WEEK (about 40 minutes)-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐
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PASSED NETS-‐BASED INTERNET SAFETY EXAM
USING EDMODO IN PAPERLESS JUDAICS CLASSROOMS
(Last year’s students received no directed media instruc+on.)
Lower School's new Accelerated Reader program sets a goal for each student of 30 minutes of reading in a level-‐appropriate zone each week, and scoring 80% or beFer on comprehension tests.
ACCELERATED READER PROGRAM
PASS RATE ON 315 TESTS TAKEN
MAP SCORESIN LANGUAGE AND MATH, UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS DEMONSTRATED GROWTH RATES SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN PREDICTED IN ALL GRADES 8-10
PROFICIENCY SCORES WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN GRADES 6-10 THAN PREVIOUS YEAR IN NEARLY EVERY CATEGORY
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Increase in staffing in our ESOL program over last year
Of students receiving ESOL for the 2nd year performed above the school average in Reading and Language
Students presently being serviced by ESOL program--60 in Lower School and 28 in Upper School