Katy ISD Earns Recognized Rating from TEA for Second Straight Year
By Katy ISD Communications
For the second straight year, outstanding student achievement produced a “Recognized” accountability rating for the Katy Independent School District. For the 2008-09 school year, 90 percent of Katy ISD campuses received a rating of recognized or above with 24 campuses receiving an exemplary rating (49%) and 20 campuses receiving a recognized rating (41%). In addition, the district and all campuses, other than the four new campuses that were not rated this year, have met 2009 Preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress.
“We are very excited to be able to celebrate the fact that so many of our campuses received a rating of recognized or above,” says Katy ISD Superintendent Alton Frailey. However, we cannot rest as there is still much work to do to ensure that we identify every child in our district that is still struggling and that they receive focused attention they need in order for them to succeed.” Read more
Student Excellence Award Winners Announced
Katy ISD has announced 73 winners of the 2009 Student Excellence Award for 2009, the district’s highest award for graduating seniors. Award winners are selected by their individual high schools, with 12 students each from the six four-year schools and two students from Miller Career & Technology Center. Each student names an outstanding teacher, who has served as a special mentor, supporter and inspiration to him or her. The Class of 2009 winners, the area they represent and their outstanding teachers (in parentheses) are: Read more
2009 Katy ISD Teachers of the Year
What do a visit to the zoo by a group of teenagers and a “mini-marathon” run by a group of elementary students have in common? They are two of the strategies that Katy ISD’s 2009 Teachers of the Year use to provide hands-on learning and teach life lessons to their students.
The two districtwide Teachers of the Year, announced on May 9, are Carol Rogers, science department chair at Katy High School (secondary), and Courtney Calfee, fifth grade reading teacher at Williams Elementary School (elementary). Read more
Texas Education Agency Recognizes Katy ISD
By: Katy ISD Communications
Outstanding student achievement in 2007-08 produced a “Recognized” accountability rating for the Katy Independent School District, a “grade” earned by just over one in four (27.8%) of the state’s 1,030 public school districts.
On the 2008 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), district-wide performance for all students tested in all grades reached the “Exemplary” level (90%-plus) in reading/language arts (96.2%), math (90.3%), writing (97.0%) and social studies (96.4%), and the “Recognized” level (80%-plus) in science (86.1%). On 25 TAKS performance indicators (five student groups tested in each of five subject areas), Katy ISD reached the “Exemplary” level on 18, “Recognized” on four and “Acceptable” on three. Read more
