Clermont Elementary School: Case Study

Clermont Elementary School is located in Alexandria, Virginia, and is part of Fairfax County Public Schools. Clermont’s mission is “using a professional learning community to create a safe learning environment that ensures high academic achievement for all students by offering them a rigorous and relevant education supported by relationships” (Clermont Elementary School, 2015). Based on the statistics found on the Fairfax County Public Schools, Clermont hosts 532 students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade. Of the 532 students, only 91 receive free and reduced lunch according to the school profile. There are several ethnicities that make up the student body: White (non-Hispanic), African American (non-Hispanic), Asian, Hispanic, and other. White (non-Hispanic) makes up the majority of the study body with 290 total students, followed by Hispanics with 114. There …show more content…
For the 2014-2015 school year, the reading SIP goal for students with disabilities (SWD) in grades 3-6 was “55% of our students with disabilities in grades 3-6 will be reading on grade level as measured by the pass rate of the reading SOL (400).” Unfortunately, only 44% of students with disabilities met this goal. The ESOL goal was “55% of LEP (limited English proficiency) students in grades 3-6 will be reading on grade level as measured by the pass rate of the reading SOL (400).” Only 50% of the ESOL students met this goal. For the 2014-2015 school, the math SIP goal for ESOL students in grades 3-6 stated “70% of LEP students in grades 3-6 passed the spring 2014 Math SOL, resulting in an achievement gap of 13%.” Only 65% of the students met the goal. The goal for students with disabilities (SWD) was “57% of SWD in grades 3-6 will score at least 400 on the 2015 Math SOL.” However, only 48.97% meet this