School Diversity EDUC 364 May 5, 2009 Chelsea Todoroff Donna Twardy Cindy Pacino Dan Zalinski
Nov 17, 2014
School Diversity
EDUC 364May 5, 2009
Chelsea TodoroffDonna TwardyCindy PacinoDan Zalinski
Introduction
School District Overview- ChelseaSan Marcos UnifiedOceanside Unified
Discovery Elementary- Donna La Costa Meadows – Cindy North Terrace - Dan
San Marcos Unified School District
Expenditures: SMUSD State AVG
Instructional services 63% 61%Student & staff support 8% 7%Administration 11% 15%Other 18% 18%
San Marcos Unified School District
16,821 students 992 certified staff 857 classified staff $7,348.00 per student in funding 23 students per teacher ratio 11.9% learning disabled 25.95% still learning English 37.4% economically disadvantaged
San Marcos Unified School District
Adults in the district•84.4% with at least a high school diploma•32.8% with at least a Bachelor’s Degree
Oceanside Unified School District
21,049 students
$7560 funding per student
Academic Performance Index 744
55.2% economically disadvantaged
Adults in the district 81% with at least a high school diploma 24% with at least a Bachelor’s Degree 11.6 % single-parent households
Teacher Demographics & Average Class Size
Average # of years teaching: Discovery 17 LCM 17 NT 14
Average class size Discovery 24 LCM 26 NT 26
Student Demographics
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Af. Am. Hispanic Free/reducedlunch
DiscoveryLa Costa MeadowsNorth Terrace
Asian WhiteEnglish learners
Elementary Schools-SMUSD
Discovery Elementary 2007 California
Distinguished School Before school learning GATE program Peace patrol/ Safety
patrol School site council Student Study Team
(SST) Very active PTO Accelerated Reader
Incentive Program
Discovery Elementary Fast Fun Facts
Music program- beginning and advanced band
Fun field trips for all grades Yearly celebration of Dr Seuss’
birthday
La Costa Meadows
LCM is 22 years old. 37 fully certificated teachers 1 Emergency credential holder 2 speech therapist, 1 psychologist 2 intervention specialist aides, 1
ELD specialist 1 principal, 1 part-time principal
La Costa Meadows Elementary Fast Fun Facts
PTO- raised $83,000 this year Parental Involvement- office and classroom
volunteers After school learning programs: guitar,
tutoring, cooking, drama, tennis, karate.
Learning Plus Program
La Costa Meadows Science
Garden
North Terrace Elementary
GATE (Gifted and Talented Education)- differentiated instruction is offered in classrooms with GATE student clusters.
School Site Council
North Terrace Elementary
Number of fully credentialed teachers – 34
Emergency credential holders – 0 Students per teacher -17 Average years of teaching
experience – 14. Teachers with one or two years of
teaching experience – 16%. Male teachers – 14%
North Terrace Elementary PTO raises money for many extracurricular activities:
Field trips, books for classrooms, teacher wish-list purchases, playground equipment, and classroom gardens.
Conclusion
What we learned about school diversity
while we researched for this presentation…
Bibliographyhttp://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/welcome.asp
http://www.greatschools.net
http://www.nt.oside.k12.ca.us/NorthTerraceCommunity.htm
http://oceanside.schoolwisepress.com/home/site.aspx?entity=21521&year=2008&locale=en-US
http://www.nt.oside.k12.ca.us/pto.htm
http://www.smusd.org/dis/site/default.asp