And that allows like the cheerleaders to be able to do their stunts and stuff without bringing the mats onto the dirt. So, it just creates a better uh more opportunities for these athletes. And then lighting. If you've been out there, you notice awful has really dated lighting and it would really it would really improve it. So, those are those are our goals, right? And it adds up to that 1.4 million. Um as we've explored different potential funding opportunities, the one thing we keep realizing is we keep running into the roadblock of we can't get grants unless it is used as a joint facility for both the public and the school. They want to see that that the community can use it if they're going to fund this project. And we tried other routes um just because there are certain, you know, stipulations such as you have to be able to let the community use it.
Um, we also believe that we are um within two months of painting Delo School. Now, they're saying June, >> so of six. Ed and I are going to be out there with paint. >> Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. Right now, we're working on a little bit of asbestos abatement um from some of the cocking. So, you know, there one more little thing they found. So, they're getting rid of that. And so, they still have a few more little things to do. Um our team has scheduled a meeting with our new tenant at HMS to work on finalizing plans for having Rise join us on the Heritage campus. Um we've signed we have a fully executed contract for four classrooms and um a work room like a therapy room with a private bathroom, two student bathrooms. They've reserve the right to grow their program to two more classrooms in that pod.
We could schedule further exhibition games after that point. Um you know, with other schools that possibly co-op at the same, you know, student uh numbers that we do. But again, we would not like move The first step is always a regional. We would not move into the IHSA regional going into that season. I just want to thank you for the work you did. I've been um lurking on the document and the data that you >> [laughter] >> that you've been playing. Um my son is on a co-op team. Um so, I do just want to thank you. I know you've been reaching out to the other districts and really, you know, um making sure that that this was like a well-informed process and I appreciate that. And I also would like to thank you and hi coaches. Um for like creating an environment in which like the co-op team was the priority for the athletes.
Whereas the highest level of distinction given by the Avine Community School Corporation is accommodation from the board of school trustees. Therefore, let it be resolved, Eli Neil is hereby commended for his success and achievements. Board members, I'll entertain a motion. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the accommodation for Eli Neil as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Mike, seconded by Jennifer.
They're they're experienced. And we saw it in Italy and I saw it in BISE. And, you know, because there's going to be unexpected things that happen. You know, your flight might get cancelled or a hotel might be over booked. And they are right there to handle all those things. And here's my favorite part, the testimonies. So, even though Heidi's butt got bit by a catfish while we were cave tubing, she still says, "Don't be afraid to try new things because you never know. You might like it. And if it goes bad, like the catfish, you can always laugh about it later." And my best friend, um, Amber pays to go on these trips with us. So, she went to Italy and she went to Bise. And so there's a picture of her and our very own Pacia climbing to the top, braving their fears to go ziplining.
Whether or not that's aligned in the three the configuration you have now for three buildings or a new configuration, you still have those in place. One piece of that certainly is also that realigning to K5 might give the opportunity to strengthen each of those pieces. Particularly the vertical articulation, let's say, in curriculum when you have K5 all in the same location. So, those all best practices all strongly developed here in your district. There'd be no reason they'd be negatively impacted by reconfiguring the buildings at all. As we consider curriculum instruction, we look at academic performance. Your third graders at the top grade in your primary buildings, if you look at their I read scores specifically for the last 5 years, their scores are strong. They score above the state average every year. They're fairly consistent and where in their scoring. And it's a very a healthy score in the 90th percentile.
And that really connected the group. And so, um what we were focusing on with Dr. Cavazos' guidance was explicit instruction. And so, making sure that we were meeting the mark and uh pushing our students in the direction that we need to be pushing them forward. And so, I don't want to interrupt your train of thought. >> Sorry. But I'm afraid I'll forget. If I wait till the end of your presentation, I might forget what I'm going to ask. I'm I'm at that age. So, how were the 12 people what what 12 people were they selected or how how were the 12 decided? So, in the spring of last year when this opportunity was brought to us, um that was right as I was transitioning to be like I had just found out I was going to be a principal. And so, I I was looking I was looking for people who might not have always been leaders, um people that were maybe not um that needed to kind of be brought up, that needed to be trained, needed needed to have some coaching.
So looking next school year um first to survey our staff. So we have as part of the curriculum adoption document, a rubric that goes over a lot of what I'm going to talk to about in the next slide about high-quality instructional materials, but it's also important to hear from our staff. What are they looking for? What what aspects of the programming that they're using already do they like? What do they find that's working? What is the data telling us? Right? So that's that more specific and that more personalized piece about our students and the kids right in front of us. Um and then we use that when we vet through different publishing companies, right? And so um we hear from our staff, we hear from the survey data, we hear from our data what is what we're looking for. It helps us when we're looking at programs to decide whether that's a possible fit for us or not.
Right. >> the board's committed to trying to make it happen somehow, but Just so the public's aware like this has already been cut, these are what grants, you know, have been cut and this is what might potentially not be funded in the future and just so that the public's aware of kind of >> trying to cut it, but they're not funding it. Right, yeah. Um you know, I think that when yeah, when they hear well and then and then keep that position or they didn't keep this program, they cut it. Well, it's not it's it's bigger than us that's taking that money away. So, I think it's good to get that message out there. I don't know what the rest of you think. I think somebody's Does anyone else have anything to bring up? I'll go back and Darlene, do you have anything you want to mention since you're here?
And I have that document right here that I'll pass around that I got from Barton County for you guys. They valued that road at $15,810. Is that what's highlighted on there? Okay. So, um whenever I talked to Jonathan about that, he's not interested in in it at that price. He would be interested in purchasing about 60% of it, but he would be somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 more. Um so, I need to kind of know a direction on how you guys wanted to go forward with that. Um but also keep in mind um if not, if we decide not to sell it, um we just need to sit down and have an agreement made on what he has access to and what we're not going to do. I mean, we're not ever going to block his property for him getting in or anything else like that.
And Dr. Soltero has brought up in the past that you know, I thought of the idea um for argumentative reasons, um but it it has really It's taken us 4 years to find a grant because of this roadblock that they they want to see the community use it. And so, what we've come down to as as promising funding options, number one, the land and water conservation fund, which is funded through Arizona State Parks trails. This same grant funded Sierra Vista's, um, track and field. It's beautiful. Um, so it it does track and field. And then, Booster Club would help do a brick or a brick A or pathway fundraiser. And then, we're hoping maybe the school can see what capital funds the district has to put in as well. Um, so we can go through ideas and see if you guys can come up with any more, but Booster Club brick fundraiser.
So we know the maximum would be six. Right now we're looking at four plus the workroom. So that is underway. They're meeting with all our staff. We got the calendar thing set up today. We also have um we're working on Leanne Wellert and John Livingston are working on this. Um I had mentioned in a prior meeting that Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind, which is um a residential campus in Tucson, is um closing their residential campus. So students who um are deaf and blind who have lived at ASDB in Tucson during the school year will now be returning to their homes for education and ASDB will be providing services regionally. So what they've asked is that because we have the most students who qualify for ASDB services, they've asked if we would be willing to be a regional hub for services. And what that means is um students from other school districts who've been at the residential campus, their home district would now pay to bus them to us.
Because I think like knowing how my son and his teammates on the swim team um responded and it was just an instant like, "Oh, we want to remain a co-op. We don't care about that state title." was just really um it was nice to see. It's nice that he like as a freshman last year came in and and had all these friends throughout the district and I appreciate that that's kind of the culture that's been cultivated throughout. So, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I would definitely have to speak word to our coaches who do an absolute great job of creating a really great student experience inside of those programs. I mean, uh without a doubt, you become to our pools, uh you know, or any of our co-op teams, you know, our our coaches care. They care about our kids. They go the extra mile to make sure that our programs are, you know, to the highest standard.
Is there any discussion? All those in favor? That motion passes 5-0. Congratulations. >> Do you want to bring up Jay? >> Do you mind? We're gonna have you >> stand and we're gonna do you and Jay together if that's okay. All right, Jay, come on. Front and center, please. The Avon Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees would like to congratulate Jay Desai with passage of the following resolution. Whereas Jay Desai placed first at the DECA Indiana State Career Development Conference in the personal financial literacy category, earning a state championship on March 3rd, 2026. Whereas Jay Desai has qualified as a finalist to compete in the DECA international competition due to his superior performance at the district and district and association levels. Whereas Jay Desai has demonstrated perseverance to achieve at excellence at a high level. Whereas Jay Desai has deter demonstrated excellent work ethic, determination and commitment.
And Paca went upside down on the zipline, I must add. >> I have to add she went upside down on the zipline. >> Yes. On purpose. Yes, she did like the Spider-Man thing. It was really cool. >> And then the last picture is of Pesa's daughter, Chloe. Chloe got to paddle board, which she's already really good at. But look at the smiles. That's just awesome. That's the last slide. Thank you. I have >> a question. >> Oh, yeah. >> I can't book for myself. Like I can't really book flights seven months out. So, how do they how do they do it and keep the price? >> I really don't think they book till about three 90 days out. >> So, they just >> get your money. >> Yeah. I mean, you >> I start booking personal trips about six months out, >> but I Yeah, it's a >> I've always been curious how they are able to do that and keep the because you never know.
I think when we look at that data, it tells us that your literacy instruction, particularly at grades K through 3, is is strong. It's being effective. And your K through 3 grades are also supported by Title 1 services, which is an integral part, right, for that performance. Your 4 and 5 grades do not have those services. We move on and look at Let's start with I-Learn ELA, okay, over the last 5 years. We can see at each of those years, um, all three grade levels are performing above the state average. Commendable. Um, we can see growth. And if we follow, um, let's take a Let's take a fourth grade class, for example, or a third grade class. Let's go back to 2021 in third grade, those kids were scoring between 55 and 59% for passing ELA. Those same kids, basically the same kids in that grade level, when we look at 2022, would be fourth graders.
Um also people that were kind of not um go-getters um necessarily, but they had it, like you could see it in the classroom, but they weren't like like out there in people's faces like look at me kind of people. Um also people that did have the EL, the English learner um they all they had that certification. So, kind of a different trying to get some different people together that weren't used to to working together, um not just the people that were always selected. Uh that was that was kind of the the idea behind the group that was that was chosen. >> And you did the selecting? I did. I did. So, uh so with our Surreal with our Surreal team, Dr. Cavazos won't be joining us next year, but we will continue with the the continuity, the community that we have developed through our Surreal team.
Um and then once we do that, we are able to narrow it down to uh no less than two programs that we would pilot. Um it's important that our pilot teachers are supported and given professional development around that programming so that they can launch that pilot. Um as that's happening, we're obviously we're looking at the data, they're meeting on a regular basis, they're looking at how their students are doing. Um and all of that is happening at the same time that um they're doing this pilot, making a decision, an informed decision. And one of the things that we did um with with ELA that we've talked about doing again with math is we took that original survey data and we created a rubric to go along with the one that comes in our curriculum adoption. So it's not just around the actual program, it's around did it meet what we identified as our needs.
Um one thing that's kind of popped up just recently is um so like last weekend on Easter weekend I borrowed some tables and chairs from the school, and when I went to take them back, um like there was a lot of people at our park, which is fine, except like there was an animal on our turf, which I think is inappropriate. And then we've also This is something we talked about a couple years ago, and I um you know, the board supported this position and like our our park our school park is closed to the public from you know, during our operating hours. Um I just dropped the ball on getting some signage um posted that I talked to Greg this week like should we I really feel like getting good out signage and making some signage that says like, "No pets on the turf." Um because I mean, people aren't necessarily cleaning up after their animals.
So, >> we just formalize an easement? We could. We could formalize just an agreement between both both entities, just making sure that we're not going to block his property, he has access to the road, those sorts of things. So, um if that's what you guys want want to do. So, I think that makes the most sense cuz by the time we have it surveyed and go through all the the legal formalities, too, if we wouldn't sell it to him, it would cost us more than than it's worth to do all that. So, it would be easiest just to do an agreement with him. Okay. That's what you guys would like. We will work on that. I second that motion. Is he okay with not buying it? He he would rather buy it, but he I mean, with with that property valuation of being so high on that road, I mean, he don't want the whole area going back there.