Hillcrest Elementary School has been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as a school where students demonstrated high growth on the ATLAS test!
As you may know, the OEP creates an annual report entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards where they recognize schools with high student academic growth. They believe that growth is the best indicator of the positive impact that your school is having on students.
In their Elementary School Level report, Hillcrest Elementary School received the following awards:
High Overall Growth (Northeast region)
High ELA Growth (Northeast region)
High Math Growth (Northeast region)
Awards are based on the 2024 content growth score calculated by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. These growth scores reflect how much students at the school improved from 2023 compared to how much other students with similar prior achievement improved. The OEP recognizes schools based on Overall growth, as well as for growth in Math and English Language Arts separately. To learn more about how the organization determined the OEP award winners and to see the full list of award recipients, you can view the report by clicking here.
The OEP congratulates Hillcrest Elementary School on this accomplishment and hopes that we will share this good news with teachers, students, and others who contributed to our school's success.