NEWTON — Newton Elementary College has been named a 2023 Nationwide Elementary and Secondary Training Affiliation Distinguished College, one among solely two within the state to realize the glory this 12 months.
That is the second nationwide recognition the college has obtained within the final 4 months, having been named a Nationwide Blue Ribbon College in September.
“We’re very excited that our devoted school and employees of Newton College is receiving one other nationwide award,” Dale County Colleges Superintendent Ben Baker stated Friday. “That is really a group effort.”
The Nationwide ESEA Distinguished Colleges program acknowledges faculties that efficiently use Elementary and Secondary Training Act funds to enhance studying alternatives for all college students, stated Alabama State Division of Training Specialist Jennifer Connell. To qualify for the glory, faculties should reveal excessive educational achievement for 2 or extra consecutive years regardless of having a poverty price of at the very least 60 %.
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“This excessive reaching faculty has had actual success in closing the achievement hole of its pupil inhabitants,” Connell stated. “NES has elevated its total pupil achievements by roughly 13 %.”
Yearly as much as two qualifying federally-funded faculties per state are chosen to obtain this prestigious honor, in response to Connell. “Chosen faculties are acknowledged for his or her distinctive educational achievement and pupil assist.”
“All seven Dale County Colleges have nice group assist that results in any such success,” Baker stated.” Over the past six years we have now continued to boost the bar and have increased expectations. We’re so grateful for our workforce of stakeholders that work exhausting to make our faculties profitable.
“Collectively we have now created a local weather and tradition for studying that results in excessive check scores, aggressive athletics, nice amenities, a ready workforce and future leaders,” Baker stated. “We sit up for persevering with the work crucial to verify all kids are prepared for a superb life in our communities.
“I’m proud that NES and the Dale County faculty system is being acknowledged on the nationwide degree for the exhausting work of so many,” Baker stated. “I’m grateful for our nice workforce.”
In September, NES was one among 5 faculties within the state and 297 nationally named a 2022 Nationwide Blue Ribbon College. In November, a delegation from Dale County traveled to the nation’s capital to simply accept the award.
“Blue Ribbon faculties have gone above and past to maintain college students wholesome and protected whereas assembly their educational, social, emotional, and psychological well being wants. These faculties present what is feasible to make a permanent, constructive distinction in college students’ lives,” stated U.S. Secretary of Training Miguel Cardona when the record of Nationwide Blue Ribbon Colleges for 2022 was launched.
“This nationwide recognition is given to elite faculties throughout america primarily based on a college’s total educational efficiency,” Baker stated, saying the Blue Ribbon College Award. “This historic accomplishment will go down as one of many best achievements within the historical past of the Dale County College System.”
Piedmont Elementary College is the opposite faculty to realize the nationwide acknowledged that was introduced this week. Piedmont Elementary is a Pre-Ok via fifth grade faculty in a rural group in Northeast Alabama. Previously named Southside Elementary College, in 2002, a brand new faculty was constructed on the identical campus as the center faculty and it was renamed Piedmont Elementary College, in response to the college’s web site.
