So hopefully when we get that hopefully we get enough responses from that survey and I can get information from the the the track of social workers so that we can come up with the best plan or the best solutions to assisting these families that have the um student issues. >> We usually just as Sro visit. So the police these officer actually goes to the house >> but here we don't we don't sheriff's heart on these >> well we don't have an SRO right now but there have been different situations where the SRO has been asked to go and visit but we don't have one right now. So, >> understand by me asking these questions, I'm not like >> say that that you're not doing a great job, right? I know you're doing a great job. >> No, I understand that. I I just have a real concern about this population of kids and and so I you know >> yeah I understand I totally understand I'm not being I don't have any feelings forced questions um but it's something that we're trying to work on as it is right now um so for we have done two sets of benchmark tests already.
I mean, they want 60% proficiency, right? >> I mean, really, as a parent, I want like 100% my students to score. >> So, [clears throat] I have I have a question. I came I'm say a new parent. I'm not a new parent, but I'm a parent. What? Considering bringing my kid to Heritage, right? >> Why Why would I bring my kid to Heritage? What would you say? What are what? >> Yeah. So, I guess the question is why do I bring my kid to Heritage, right? I mean, I bring my own kid there every day. Just bring my kids to the schools. Um, the teachers are teaching. There's learning happening and it's great learning and I prove it. I'll bring them to my campus and I'll show it to them. You can walk into any of my classrooms, you will see kids learning and you could even see the forward momentum.
So, moving from the third attribute, which is responsible digital citizen, the next one is adaptive lifelong learner. So, if the representative of NAHS, yep. How has your club or activity challenge you to try something new or change how you're doing something? Um, again, as artists, trying to improve our skills means
We ask that you keep it under three minutes or less. And please refrain from mentioning students and staff by name. Um we do have one person um that's signed up. M I'm gonna I'm gonna try to pronounce your name. Is it Foule? Foula. Thank you. All right, esteemed board members and esteemed community members. My name is Gimma Fbula. I'm a proud Avon High School alumni, class of 2011. Um, following graduating from Avon, I went on to Purdue University. Um, where I received my bachelor's degree and went on to law school at IU Mckeni downtown Indianapolis. Um, I've lived in Avon for about 20 years. Love my community. Um, and just to jump right in, um, the biggest concern that I am facing right now and wanted to bring to the board's attention, um, I have family that lives in Avon as well, um, that, you know, goes to school in the Avon community.
You should be in a very strong position to be proactive if and when you want to take on a project or a challenge or a need versus reactive. A few key findings. So, I'm going to hit some highlights and summarize a few things and then we're going to go through details here. Some key findings and this is like throughout all your buildings, most most of those buildings as you're looking at just your interior finishes, right? That's like your carpet, that's your paint, that's your case or things of that nature. Um, your you have a mix of updated, very nice. Everything's in good condition, but you have a mix of updated stuff and some stuff that's a little bit older, dated, and wore. Very common. Traditionally, as you try to look at planning, as you do projects, you want to have a level of consistency and parody between buildings so they all kind of function and feel the same.
We've we've got to figure out how to make that all happen. So, it's a very important process and something that we need to keep cognizant of. I I I appreciate Jay mentioning that we set that aside because I we we earmarked it. It's it's just all in that bundle, but that is an earmark there for that. So, >> and again, kudos to Becky, excuse me, kudos to uh Michelle and to Tyler again for that um budgeting process that they will do here this summer once we give them an estimated amount and that budget process that they will do. So that in 2728 there's going to be monies there available for uh adoption to take place. So out of the box thinking that's crucial >> which is also helpful when we go to talk to our legislator. We've already budgeted this amount. You know this is what we need.
Are there any questions? >> I have a question. Um, first I think is an excellent idea and you did a great job presenting. So, but the um in the barn >> you made it sound like there's going to be like soft stuff in there. >> Yeah. >> Is it going to get wet? >> No. The barn will be fully enclosed. So, there will be windows, but they're going to be covered with plexiglass and then doors that fully close. So, there's not going to be any reason for rain to get in. >> Will any of that stuff that's in that barn need to be removed in the winter? It shouldn't be because we pick stuff that rodents hopefully won't get into and won't be affected by the weather. >> I think it sounds great too. What about drainage out there? Is that an would that be an issue?
Um we went because we had several students that anger and rage is a lot of what they feel. Um they go from zero to 100 u just like that. And so trying to help little minds um cope with that. That was a really powerful um experience for the two of us to take what we learned and and bring it back and try to help the teachers that were closest with those students um on what strategies they can do to help them manage those um big big feelings. Um then June 2025, we were able to take three more teachers to CD1 and Amy and I um were fortunate enough to we you can volunteer um apply to be what's called a helper at the conference. Um and you go down and you basically are working like Euro table leader. Um, and so we actually got to go with them um, in that role.
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>> Yep. I can um for our next meeting if that's something you'd like to see I can um check with our transportation coordinator and and put something um and then I think this is my last one and I'll let David take the floor. Thank you all for waiting. Um, I want to just point I I think the public comment we got speaks to some of this, but a a trend that I'm seeing in the way Pelum Elementary's costs are shifting is that we're seeing a significant increase in our central office spending. Um, I don't know that there's anything to do about that in in this year in particular, but really wanted to point that out and particularly as we're looking at increasing reliance on choice funding. My my understanding is that choice funding is meant to be used for inbuilding needs. So, I want to just as a committee have that on our minds as we're looking to the budget and considering spending.
So um some may say it's not a lot, some may say it's too much, but I feel like I thoroughly enjoy doing that every month and just getting getting to see some kids honored for different things than you would typically see at a pep facility. So, it's just >> I think it's great. >> It's something that's really worked for our building this year. Um, in February, um, [snorts] we conducted a professional development day with first and second year teachers where I took them um, I took our first and second year teachers to Ottawa. Contrary to popular belief, we do do mentoring stuff for our first and second year teachers. So, um our first and second year teachers went with me to Ottawa and they observed um a teacher in their content area uh for three hours and then they also observed Ottawa does a a power hour very similar to ours.
So did set those total enrollment numbers to 32, which does give us the open seat equivalency of about 34 students. If you do look down at the bottom for our projections for the next couple years, 2526, we're at 152. Projection from next year is to be at 157. Once that fifth grade class gets into high school, that pushes our our high school middle school number up to 167. So again, that doesn't count the students that we may or may not get or we, you know, could lose kids from one year to another as well. So with open enrollment numbers, but those are our projections and our open seats. Again, per Kansas state statute law, we do have to post these with board approval for the open seats. So if somebody wants to apply for open enrollment, they can apply. But just so you guys are aware of open enrollment, that that does not consist consist of district students.
Um the main corridor that separates those meeting spaces from the office spaces on the lefthand side. And I know this is small and all of this I believe is going to be up on the website so you can look at it closer. But what we have are all the service points along this main corridor, public restrooms, elevator and stairs on both sides. I have to point out that the building, any new building has to be fully code compliant, right? And that is barrierfree access ADA compliance. Um it also um needs to be in terms of the police department compliant with the state department of corrections regulations which your current facility is not. That's much better. Thank you. Um so this new layout is bigger by default than the existing because the existing is not compliant and it's not ADA accessible. You should know that a public facility, a public-owned building has absolutely no exceptions.
We are moving into our third one this week. So, so far for the first benchmark for English language arts, we had 3% this is from grades 8 through to 8. We have 3% of the students being proficient and 14% being highly proficient. So, students who are proficient are getting 70 and above. Students who are highly proficient tend to be 80 and above. So those are so we have 3% proficient, 14% highly proficient. For math we have 7% proficient and 8% highly proficient. There are a number of students who are very close to proficiency. So we're hoping that with the tutoring that started in November, it will help to push them up so that they can become proficient. Um for the high school we have 21% of students being proficient in ELA and 25% being highly proficient. For math we have 17% proficiency and 10% highly proficient.
The way that they measure measure it, I don't know if I agree with that. But I really do think that learning is happening. I brought my kid from a small private Christian school and I think she's getting a great education and I think she'll be prepared for college. >> So, >> one of the ways that they were dinged on their letter was not enough of our special ed students were in general education classrooms. So, that was a that was a big ding because we've been serving kids more primarily like in pull out like in a resource classroom, you know, things like that. And so, um Nicole and Caitlyn have been working this year through the IEP process to rewrite the kids IEPs to provide them more time in general education setting because that's something like you're seeing the benefit in the scores as they've worked hard to do that.
Um and there was a situation that occurred where um a student's transcript was not sent to the university of their choice um for a precursor program before um joining the university IU groups if you all are familiar with that. Um the application was put in in September on time. Um the student believed to have followed all the instructions so that their transcript could be automatically sent. Um, it turns out that there was some discrepancy in the instructions of various forms that the student had to fill out in order for that transcript to be sent off. Um, there I think there's Navvian and then there's another additional form that students or high um seniors have to fill out. Um, the student seemed to not know of this. The application was sent. It was incomplete. um the student voice that they went to the guidance office and asked, "Hey, was my transcript sent?" and was told all the transcripts are sent at the same time.
Accessibility, security, you guys are the major updates in this regard. There's a couple items related to door hardware. You still have a few doors that still have some of those knobs, like the circular knobs. They're not really ADA compliant. So, when you do the update, you go back with some updated hardware or levers. Your restrooms, we've done several restroom conversions for you. We always make sure they're ADA compliant. There's still some out there that are dated that still need that that update as well. More work is required on some of the building envelope. So, as you walk around your buildings, if you look at the windows, if you kind of look at some of the brick and some of the mortar joints and things of that nature, they just need to either be replaced or be repaired. So, those are on there kind of throughout the building.
Anything that you can help provide will help. So that number is very important not only for us for a budgeting standpoint but in our advocacy when we talk to our legislators. So that's a number that we should socialize broadly and so everyone knows >> to be uh respectful of of time on this topic. I I also want to commend the previous board and leadership. One of the first board meetings I watched before I came to this district. Jay was talking about textbook adoption and his curriculum funding and there was a healthy balance at that time. What Huntington has done well over multiple years and under Mr. Peters and and different leaders with different boards has they have always come in under the textbook adoption and had basically a savings account of a couple 300 from what I can tell in our history 3 to 400,000 a year to cover future textbook adoptions.
Have we >> not an issue? >> Yeah, not at this time. We have two uh warm drains in the grassy area. Um, and then there are some down spouts, but they seem to be doing okay. >> Perfect. Yeah. >> Well, after you graduate, who's going to change the story boards? >> I'm hoping that the librarian can be in charge of changing out the story walk boards every month. And then she could also copy more books to put in the boards if the original six books are getting used a lot. Knowing any teachers there that might help? >> Any other questions? >> Sounds good. >> Thank you. >> Wonderful job. >> Good job, >> Dave. You ought to use her for your presentation. You're welcome to stay for the rest of whatever. You did a wonderful job and I know it will be successful. >> All right.
And that was huge for us because we got to go and see everything again from a different lens after um, one week of it than going back and getting to see all the information and soak in more because you in a week it's hard it's hard to get it all. Um, so we got to do that and then we were also chosen to present. So we've done this little presentation. We did it. It was an hour and a half and we promise we won't take that long today, but we did an hour and a half presentation um a breakout session for administrators and people that were wanting to try to get conscious discipline started in their school and so we shared our journey. Okay. So that was kind of our training journey and then this is our in 24-25 we started doing some things um at Colombia we decided to do a house model.