York Families,

School is in full swing, students are attentive and teachers hit the ground running. 

In this spirit, we remind students that attendance, tardy, and dress code policies are important measures which reinforce the goal of learning.

York Goals:

Our objective is that every York student is safe, engaged, challenged, and supported.

• Safety is always our first priority for students.  The work we do around security, discipline, and building maintenance are all focused on  providing a safe, secure, clean environment for students and staff.  We know that you entrust your most valuable people to us each day:  their safety is our first priority.
• We strive to engage each student.  This starts in an academic classroom, but extends to the arts, electives, physical education, athletics and activities, and building relationships with each other and staff.
• With a solid foundation, students must be challenged in order to grow and excel.  Our curricular and extracurricular programs are designed to  provide challenging and appropriate opportunities for each and every York student.
• Students will be supported at York by teachers, counselors, deans, social workers, psychologists, nurses, police liaisons, support staff, and administrators.  Early identification and focused interventions are critical to student success.

Building Goals
The York School Improvement/Data Team, in consultation with the Instructional Advisory Council (department chairs and administrators) and the York Advisory Team (parents, students, and staff), met over the summer to review our achievement, attendance, discipline, and participation data from the 2011-12 school year.  From the data, we identified five building goals.  The goals will serve to focus our efforts during the school year.  In future newsletters, we will examine each goal more closely.

1. In order to improve our average ACT score, (a) 80% of our juniors will score a 21 or above on ACT Reading, and (b) 80% of our juniors will score a 21 or above on ACT Math.
2. Eighty percent of York students will exceed expected growth (five points) between the EXPLORE and the ACT.
3. There will be a 10% increase in the number of students who score a three or higher on one or more AP exams.
4. We will reduce the number of Semester 1 D’s and F’s by 10%.
5. We will increase the number of students involved in extracurricular activities/athletics by 10%.

Diana Smith
Principal