Join Clover Park School District Superintendent Ron Banner as he visits with students to discuss important education topics in our new video series “Learning with Superintendent Banner.”
In our first episode, Superintendent Banner joins second graders from Four Heroes Elementary School and seniors from Harrison Preparatory School to talk about the importance of attendance. Find out how regular attendance is essential to student success and how perspectives on attendance differ and, in some cases, align for students 10 years apart in their educational journey. Every Day Counts!
Superintendent Banner, thank you
for instilling basic principles of learning to students so they develop good habits for the rest of their lives. You are an inspiration to all of us.
The school district has gone into the toilet since Banner took over. The academic results are awful district wide. What has happened to Lakewood? Crime, bad schools, the town center has a lot of vacant space. This isn’t the town we grew up in. It has become truly sad to see how downhill things have gone and it comes down to bad planners putting all these apartments in and not planning for more family housing that people can really buy. Then there are the tons of kids the schools are taking that aren’t even able to do the grade level work – look at the dat on how many kids are reading on grade level in Clover Park – it’s bad. Lakewood property taxes better not be going up any time soon! For what?!
Indeed Clover Park School District (CPSD) is failing academically under Banner’s watch. It’s what you might expect with the shift in emphasis from academics to social engineering and indoctrination.
Here are the facts.
CPSD is currently ranked academically at 25.9 percentile: 74.1% of State school districts outperform it academically. The official Office of Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI) attendance criteria is “students attending 90% or more of school days”. CPSD attendance is 65.7%. 1/3rd of students do not meet state attendance criteria.
Four Heroes Elementary academic ranking is 9.6 percentile and attendance 51.4%.
Harrison Prep is the top CPSD high school ranked academically at 74.6 percentile and attendance 70.3%.
At the other end of the spectrum is Clover Park High ranked academically at 3.4 percentile…96.3% of State high schools out perform it… and attendance 44.5%.
You can’t learn if you don’t attend class.
Attendance figures are for 2022/2023 so we don’t know how things shaped up for 2023/2024.