2007-2008

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Title & Summary

School: HUFFAKER ELEM

NCES Common Core of Data ID 320048000222

School Year 2007-2008

Title 1 School 1

AYP Designation: Adequate (A)

Principal's Name Ruth Williams

District WASHOE COUNTY SCH DIST

Address

980 Wheatland

RENO , NV 89511

Phone 775-689-2510
Email rwilliams@washoe.k12.nv.us

District Mission or Vision Statement

The Washoe County School District provides each student the opportunity to achieve his or her potential through a superior education in a safe and challenging environment in order to develop responsible and productive citizens for our diverse and rapidly changing community.

Washoe County School District will become a “world class school district” in which ALL students will acquire the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for student success.

School Mission or Vision Statement

To teach the children who come, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, or gender, how to read, write, think, compute, test take, speak well, appreciate the arts, and behave in socially acceptable ways, so that they can become economically independent, contributing members of society.

School Highlights

Huffaker ES’s annual Jog-A-Thon raised nearly $50,000 for special programs( Much of which will go towards playground improvement). In addition Huffaker received the SB 185 ($150,000 over two years) grant money to create and After School Tutoring program to increase the number of non-proficient students in literacy/reading and math. The tutoring program will also address the needs of the lowest 10% at Huffaker as a response to intervention in the area of literacy.
Huffaker Elemetary School achieved not just adequate yearly progress, but received the designation of High Achieving. In addition, there was an increase in the percentage of proficient students in mathematics, in writing and in reading in most subgroups. Moreover, there was an increase in the percentage of students in the top quartile and a decrease in the percentage of students in the bottom quartile in all district and state mandated tests.
Teachers at Huffaker continue to meet in Professional Learning Communities as a successful componet of staff development. In 2007/2008 Huffaker will set aside eight Friday afternoons(about four a quarter) to discuss and design plans to use instruction and assessment as a response to intervention to meet the academic needs of students.