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For Release - Wednesday, June 2, 2004
BRONX SCHOOL TO RECEIVE BUSINESS
COUNCIL'S PATHFINDER AWARD
Business Council's prestigious award honors schools for educational
improvement
ALBANY—Community School 92, in Community School District 12 in the Bronx, will receive The Business Council's 2004 Pathfinder Award in a ceremony at 1 p.m. June 16 at the school. The award honors schools that show high improvement from one year to the next as measured by their students' scores on state tests. Twenty-four schools received the award this year. A complete list of winning schools is included below.
For further information on the June 16 ceremony, contact school principal Brenda Carrasquillo-Silen at 1-718/731-7900. This school was selected from all public elementary schools in the state's judicial district 12, which includes all of the Bronx.
Background on the Pathfinder Award: The Council awards the Pathfinder Award to two or more schools in each of 12 regions of the state. Winning schools are chosen by The Council based on a range of criteria, including improvement in scores and the number and percentage of students tested. In addition, at least half of a school's students must meet or exceed state standards on the fourth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) and math tests before the school can qualify for the award. Two awards are given in each of 12 different regions across the state. These regions are the state's judicial districts because those regions are the basis of elections to the state Board of Regents. The program is in its fourth year.
Schools that win the award receive $1,000 for the school's programs and a trophy in recognition of the achievement.
Here is a complete list of the 2004 Pathfinder Award winners:
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SCHOOL / SCHOOL DISTRICT
|
IMPROVEMENT IN TEST SCORES (2002-2003)
|
|
|
English Language Arts
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Math
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| P.S. 46 (the Arthur Tappan School), New York City Community School District 5 in Manhattan |
49 percent
|
54 percent
|
| P.S. 133 (the Fred R. Moore Academy), New York City Community School District 5 in Manhattan |
54 percent
|
35 percent
|
| P.S. 270 (the Johann Dekalb School), New York City Community School District 13 in Brooklyn |
103 percent
|
184 percent
|
| P.S. 384 (the Frances E. Carter School), New York City Community School District 32 in Brooklyn |
154 percent
|
104 percent
|
| Berlin Elementary School, Berlin Central School District in Rensselaer County |
36 percent
|
90 percent
|
| Arbor Hill Elementary School, Albany City School District in Albany County |
36 percent
|
59 percent
|
| East Side Elementary School, Gouverneur Central School District in St. Lawrence County |
95 percent
|
89 percent
|
| Madrid Waddington Elementary School, Madrid Waddington Central School District in St. Lawrence County |
48 percent
|
62 percent
|
|
Williamstown Elementary School, Altmar Parish-WMS Town Central School District in Oswego County |
112 percent
|
182 percent
|
| Delaware Elementary School, Syracuse City School District in Onondaga County |
116 percent
|
70 percent
|
| Roxbury Elementary School, Roxbury Central School District
in Delaware County |
10 percent
|
110 percent
|
| Virgil Elementary School, Cortland City School District
in Cortland County |
30 percent
|
66 percent
|
| Lindley Presho Elementary School, Corning City School District in Steuben County |
76 percent
|
25 percent
|
| Penn Yan Elementary School, Penn Yan Central School District in Yates County |
26 percent
|
61 percent
|
| P.S. 28 (the Triangle Academy), Buffalo City School
District in Erie County |
257 percent
|
92 percent
|
| P.S. 80 (Highgates Heights), Buffalo City School District
in Erie County |
120 percent
|
9 percent
|
| Foxfire School, Yonkers City School District in Westchester County |
69 percent
|
134 percent
|
| Casimir Pulaski, Yonkers City School District in Westchester
County |
13 percent
|
103 percent
|
| Oak Park Elementary School, Brentwood Union Free School
District in Suffolk County |
44 percent
|
62 percent
|
| Ludlum School, Hempstead Union Free School District
in Nassau County |
47 percent
|
22 percent
|
| P.S. 156 (the Laurelton School) New York City Community
School District 29 in Queens |
84 percent
|
90 percent
|
| P.S. 121 (the Magnet School for the Visual and Performing
Arts), New York City Community School District 28 in Queens |
37 percent
|
78 percent
|
| P.S. 32 (the Belmont School), New York City Community
School District 10 in the Bronx |
124 percent
|
51 percent
|
| P.S. 92, New York City Community School District 12, in the Bronx |
80 percent
|
85 percent
|
Employers that support the Pathfinder Awards include Anheuser-Busch, Inc.; Apple Computers; Buck & Pulleyn; CH Energy Group; ChevronTexaco; Consolidated Edison, Inc.; Corning Incorporated; Fleet Bank; Frontier Communications; Golub Corporation; HSBC; IBM; KeyBank; KeySpan; MapInfo Corporation; Metropolitan Life; Northrup Grumman; Pfizer; The Pike Company; The Pioneer Development Company; Racemark International; Security Mutual Life Insurance Company, and State Farm Insurance Company.
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