Category: School Info

Happy Monday Everyone!! Well this past week was filled with excitement and anticipation of our 2011-2012 CST scores. In case you did not know, our previous API score was 884 (very respectable). To put it in perspective we were the 9th highest performing school in our District of 44 schools. Now, I am proud to say we blew by the 900 mark to a score of 916!! This achievement is the result of incredible teachers and students working hard to teach and learn the California Standards. Thanks to their hard work and the amazing support of the community and support staff we made a tremendous leap to the 3rd highest performing school in the District.

To share a little more of the details, we can now proudly say that 79% of all students at McMillin are proficient in Language Arts and a whopping 87% are proficient in Math! In terms of growth, we had the 3rd highest levels of language arts growth in the District (8.4%) and the 6th highest in math (6.4%) In addition, our 5th grade science scores were 3rd highest in the District (85.7% proficient) and the 11th highest proficient in Writing (94.7%).

Proud of the school would only barely describe how I feel! Thank you to all the families, students, support staff and most importantly the teachers for all of your efforts. I am blessed to work alongside such an amazing group! Look forward to a school wide celebration, we deserve it! Information for this will be going home soon.

And now back to the drawing board!! In case you were wondering Heritage School is still on top with an API of 936, so of course that means McMillin’s new goal will be at least 940…lol! Thanks again everyone I hope you have a great week!

I want to thank all of our fantastic Moms and Dads for joining us last week during our Donuts with Dads and Muffins with Moms event! We had a great turnout and appreciate the support you gave during our book fair fundraiser. Having you on the campus makes our school even more special than usual!

This week looks like it’ll be pretty quite as far as events go, but many more are right around the corner!

I’d like to remind parents to please follow all traffic rules when dropping off and picking up students. At this time we only have one designated drop off/pick-up zone and that is directly in front of the school. You’ll be able to identify the area by the “white” painted curb. We also want to encourage you to avoid backing up traffic on Santa Cora by entering our parking lot. When a spot becomes available we’d like you to park and then pick up your child. Please do not have your child enter the parking lot alone as this area becomes very congested and is a very dangerous lot for children. Remember all red painted curbs are not for pick up or drop off and you risk a very expensive fine if ticketed.

We continue to look for ways to improve traffic flow, but the best piece of advice is to be patient, flexible, and respectful. Everyone wants the same thing and that is to have a safe environment for the kids and you are a key component in that goal 🙂

This will be a busy week at McMillin! We hope all parents can join us for our Back to School Night. Teachers will give you a detailed overview on what you can expect for the year. Although this won’t be the time to conference about specific students this will give parents a chance to learn how they can support their children.

Due to our large numbers we will split up the event over two days: