Pima Elementary PTO - Excelling Rating Explained

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South Scottsdale Elementary School Ratings

The table below lists the AZ LEARNS ratings* for each elementary school in south Scottsdale. (See below for a ratings explanation.)

School	2009 Enrollment	2009 Rating	2008 Rating	2007 Rating	2006 Rating	2005 Rating	AZ DOE Reports
Pima Elementary School	625	Excelling	Excelling	Excelling	Excelling	Excelling	School Report Card (new window)
Hohokam Elementary School	565	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing	School Report Card (new window)
Navajo Elementary School	511	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	School Report Card (new window)
Pueblo Elementary School	525	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Highly Performing	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	School Report Card (new window)
Tonalea Elementary School	553	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Highly Performing	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	School Report Card (new window)
Yavapai Elementary School	734	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	Performing	Performing Plus	Performing Plus	School Report Card (new window)

Coronado Complex Middle School Ratings

Currently as K-6 schools, Hohokam, Yavapai, Pima and Tonalea are "feeder schools" for Supai Middle School. This area is referred to as the Coronado Complex. (You can view the school district map in PDF format.) The table below lists the AZ LEARNS ratings* for this middle school in the Coronado Complex.

School	2009 Enrollment	2009 Rating	2008 Rating	2007 Rating	2006 Rating	2005 Rating	AZ DOE Reports
Supai Middle School	591	Performing Plus	Performing	Performing	Performing	Performing	School Report Card (new window)

*Scottsdale Unified District page on Arizona Department of Education website: http://www10.ade.az.gov/ReportCard/DistrictDetails.aspx?id=4240&ReportLevel=2

Arizona School Ratings Explained

Pima Elementary is south Scottsdale's only Title 1 Excelling School, described by Governing Board member Jennifer Petersen as, "The ROCK STAR on the block." However, many parents and people in the community may not know how the Excelling rating is determined.

The State of Arizona uses a rating system for schools called Arizona LEARNS (AZ LEARNS). The overal performance levels for each school are described by profiles. The profiles for elementary and middle schools are based on multiple indicators:

AIMS test results indicated through percent of students passing the AIMS test and improvement or decline of AIMS scores over three years
Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) results indicating percent of students in each grade making year-to-year academic progress
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status

The State then rates schools on the following scale:

Excelling — Significantly above state performance goals, in addition a significant number of students have exceeded the standard on the AIMS test.
Highly Performing — Above state performance goals or has demonstrated adequate improvement, in addition a significant number of students have exceeded the standard on the AIMS test.
Performing Plus — Above state performance goals, however the number of students exceeding the standard on the AIMS test is not sufficient to earn a highly performing or excelling label.
Performing — Meets state performance goals.
Underperforming — Needs to meet state performance and state progress goals.
Failing

Independent Reports on Pima Elemetary

(Summary by Bret Loucks, Scottsdale Unified School District, in a report written for the district):

Pima Elementary School has partnered with the Center For Conative Abilities, Kolbe Corp, St. Luke's Health Care Initiative and the Arizona State University Department of Social Work. These entities have created a program called Project: Go Ahead to address the long standing concern over why so many students struggle in school, the increase in diagnosis of various syndromes among school age children from ADD to Oppositional Defiant Disorders. The Project: Go Ahead program is being piloted at Pima Elementary School and in all schools in the Kansas Public School District in Kansas City Missouri. As a part of this project, Kolbe Conative index data was collected from all staff members at Pima Elementary school. Kolbe was able to analyze this data to calculate team performance measures for the school.

Her recommendations for reconfiguring Pima Elementary School, and a more thorough discussion of the research on reliability of the applications of Kolbe's theory of conation are included following this paper. To summarize her findings, Pima staff has an unusually diverse and balance of conative talents. Kolbe's analysis shows that the Staff at Pima Elementary School has a very high probability of success in attaining goals and in striving to set new ones. The most reliable way to increase the success of students in the Pima Attendance area is to add staff that will maintain the conative balance (synergy) of the team and bring more district students to this school. This could be achieved by extending the school to a K-8 configuration.

Kathy Kolbe's recommendations for reconfiguring Pima Elementary School
The Pima PTO's K-8 Neighborhood Schools Solution

Other Reports
Report on Pima Elementary including "test scores, rankings, student/teacher ratios, ethnic makeup, and scores of other useful metrics" on SchoolDigger.com.

Pima Elementary performance chart on Just for the Kids.

Pima Elementary review on GreatSchools.net.

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