Stony Creek: a Four Star School

The following is an excerpt from a letter received from Dr. Suellen Reed, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Indiana.


"Dear Principal, Teachers and Staff, Parents, and Community Members:
It is with pleasure that I congratulate you on your school's outstanding accomplishments in being named a recipient of both a Four Star School Award and a monetary Indiana School Improvement Award in the Indiana School Incentive Award Program. In extending the best possible educational opportunities to our children, you hold the future in your hands.

Ongoing school improvement is essential in meeting the changing needs of Indiana's students; therefore, we want to give special recognition to schools making noticeable advancements. To qualify for the school improvement award, it was necessary for your school to improve in at least two of the following areas: ISTEP+ total battery score, language arts proficiency score, mathematics proficiency score, and attendance rate. (Stony Creek was recognized for ALL four areas! This was based on last year's 1999-2000 scores and attendance numbers.)

Your designation as a Four Star School in 2000-2001 indicates that your school has performed in the top 25 percent of all the schools in the state in each of the four areas of the Indiana School Incentive Award Program."

... Success is everyone's responsibility, but it comes about by one person doing one action at a time. I hope that each of you will continue this year's achievements and build upon them."



Our entire school family should be very proud of these awards. Special recognition goes to our fourth grade students whose test scores as third graders qualified us for these awards as well as their parents, current and former teachers and staff, and Mr. Harvey.

The School Improvement/NCA Committee will be making decisions on how to best spend the incentive award money to encourage continued improvement. Our school was awarded a total of $3,212.26!