Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 Statement on A-F School Letter Grades
As districts across the state work to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and ensure students have the resources and opportunities they need to thrive, the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 is realizing many positive trends in the letter grades released today. For the first time since letter grades became a legal reporting system, the state of Arizona has rated all SCV35 schools as either an A or a B.
School Letter Grades
San Cayetano Elementary School .................... A
Mountain View Elementary School ...................B
Calabasas PreK-8 School ..................................B
Coatimundi Middle School ................................B
Rio Rico High School .........................................B
Student growth clearly drove school ratings with two sites receiving the maximum 50 points possible while other sites were very near to full points. Acceleration and Readiness also fared well with three of our sites achieving a perfect 10/10 and Rio Rico High School earning their highest-ever College and Career Readiness Score of 18.5/20.
“Overall, we take these letter grades as an indication that the many significant steps we are taking as a District to modernize our curriculum, personalize our instruction, and provide clear and accurate feedback to students and families about student achievement are working,” stated Stephen Schadler, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning and Assessing. “Our teachers and administrators worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to meet student needs and those same students and their families responded in kind. These letter grades indicate that everyone’s collective and ongoing effort appear to be working.”
SCV35 continues their work with a Governing Board Study Session on November 15th. During that time, Board members will hear finer details of the student achievement data and engage in detailed discussions with each principal regarding their respective Site Integrated Action Plan which is already being implemented.