We got every score for every student, compared them to the year before, and for third to fourth, third graders going to fourth, language arts was a 65% increase. Fourth to fifth for language arts 81%, fifth to sixth, 63%. 6th to 7th, 94%, 7th to 8th was 67%. Then for math, third fourth grade, there was a 92% that showed increase. Fourth to fifth was 96% for fifth to sixth was 91%. 6th to 7th 82%. Seventh to eighth graders made 100% growth. >> Now >> and to clarify what that really means is it m it means they made growth. It does not mean they went from minimally proficient to proficient. They're in special ed for a reason. They have learning disabilities, etc. some of them, you know, have autism and things, but those kids, that percentage made positive growth and didn't go backwards. So, we're going to keep going in that direction that we've been going, trying to increase and increase these scores.
We're seeing a $2.2 million increase. From supplemental state funds funds like we noticed previously. Um This is preparing us for those incredible those critical improvements that we need. And so we're positioning ourselves to be better be able to support those items and as we're moving into the new fiscal year and this year. Um the emergency building renewal grant program. We've seen zero changes in that and that is because no new projects have been approved for that program. Classroom site fund had a slight change of about $84,000 and that's a from our December revision and that's just a slight reduction due to our allocation. Special project funds, we adjusted our federal and state grants to reflect primarily for our stronger connections grant. That's approximately $1.5 million and that is the funds that support our school safety officers, our SSOs. There's no changes to the food service budget limit at this time.
Come on up. And for third grade, Stella Ivasa. And for fourth grade is Mia Son. All right. And for the middle school, our fifth grade winner is Emerson Marzano. For sixth grade, we have John Hackert. Seventh grade, our winner is Aiden Cancan. And for eighth grade, we have Ryan Kaminsky. Parents, feel free to come up and take pictures if you want. It's okay. >> Feel free to come up and take a few pictures. As I tell them, every month we select one student per grade every month. There are between 180 and 200 kids per grade. So, when your child is selected, it's a quite an honor. So, you should be very, very proud of them. >> Smile to your cameras. Okay, thank you very much. Great job. Do you want to do? >> All right. Next, we are going to recognize our IESA state qual uh state bowling qualifiers.
>> Those are all good reasons to reach out to Sophia if you're going through it. Ballpark guess, how many friends have you been there for in [music] their darkest hours this year? >> All of them? >> That's beautiful. Sophia's a kind of friend we should all aspire to have. Sophia pat everybody. It's the rare wildcat that can lock up two different senior superlatives. Next up, Tong [music] Tong. He's the life of the party and a future influencer. He's on his phone right now. Tong Tong, amazing. Double crowns. So, you're an influencer and you're the life of the party. Do you think these things interrelate? >> Very much. >> What's the secret to the internet success that you've enjoyed as an influencer? >> Going more audience every day by posting more about myself and being more about [music] fun and being the life. >> All the things.
He places students and families at the center of everything he does, and his passion for work shows in the ways he goes beyond all expectations with various tasks. He makes sure to celebrate the culture of our district's families, communicate clearly, and always follows through. His nominator shared, "The work he does is never just a job for him. It's meaningful." Congratulations, Moises. And our final Pride nominee record person of the year is Jess Hates. Jess is the digital and communications coordinator, and she demonstrates excellence in all aspects of her role. Often working behind the scenes to make website edits or form social media strategies, she supports both her team and the district's needs as a whole. Her ability to teach and empower while mentoring others is deeply admired. A co-worker shared, "Her willingness to share her knowledge and invest in those around her has made a lasting impact, including shaping much of what I know today." Congratulations, Jess.
Whereas, the Avon High School World Drum Line won the IPA Scholastic World State Championship, which was their 13th consecutive state title. I did not misspeak. their 13th consecutive state title. Whereas the AHS World Drum Line were Winter Guard International Scholastic World Class finalist placing ninth at the Worlds. Whereas the AHS World Drum Line has demonstrated perseverance to achieve excellence at a high level and have demonstrated excellent work ethic, determination, and commitment. Whereas the AHS world drum line has earned the respect of the entire school community for their high standards and expectations. Whereas the highest level of distinction given by the Avon community school corporation is accommodation from the board of school trustees. Therefore, let it be resolved the AHS world drum line through the work of their students, directors and parents are hereby command commended for their success and achievements. Board members, I will entertain a motion.
So. Yes, that's very helpful. Um board members may have questions before we uh start. Um and I'll start with a question. The the status of the F100 R. Would you say that's a draft at this point or are those in effect now? These are in effect. They've been posted to the to BoardDocs website and reflect current practice. Got you. You said that these have been updated when? Just within the last month. Okay. Other board members have questions about the documents in front of us before we start? Uh Dr. Phillips, can you confirm what drove the changes to those in the last month? Was it um you know, a a normal review cycle or were there actions we were taking to mitigate something that we had observed within the school corporation? It was a result of the policy that Jason sent to us to to review and the need to go ahead and implement the directions that the board provides in F100 that directs us to to develop those internal control standard or administrative guidelines.
Um, Chris is the unsung backbone of Camden Early Childhood Center. She's a seasoned professional who possesses a level of intuition only experience can provide. She doesn't just assist. She anticipates often addressing challenges before others even notice them. She knows which students to are about to lose focus, which lesson is likely to confuse a class and how to subtly intervene without disrupting the flow of the day. To the students, she is a mixture of safety and consistency. Hannah is the spark plug of the classroom, a vibrant, energetic presence and a great teammate. She brings a fresh perspective and enthus enthusiasm to each school day. She is the first to get her hands messy and is willing to jump in whenever needed. Whether it's finger painting, hand print making, slime making, or helping a child put on their own coat, ideal. She is an asset to the Camden community.
I mean you know as I wrote in your cards, the amount of children that you have touched through the years and the amount of influence that you had on this community and even on this world just cannot be be put into anything down because you just don't know the impact that we have. And I know lots of times even as an educator myself, years later you have kids come back and share things with you of the impact that you made that you didn't think you had. And that's the true blessing of being a teacher. And I think lots of times our society forgets the impacts that we make, the lives that we touch and it's not always about the curriculum. It's more about the relationships that you build. And we just thank you for those many many years of I think probably almost over a hundred and some odd years there of experience that we have.
We have a lot of anxiety, some depression, some students that have spent time with the Parkview Behavioral Health in Fort Wayne. We have kids involved with Boys and Girls Club, youth service bureau in town. So just a lot of they've faced a lot of adversity and they have some sort of repercussions. A lot of it's out of their control, but um most of them face that stuff head on. I think the two kids we have here have had their fair share of adversity, but they've faced that stuff head on pretty well. Um now I'll let Megan talk, but she spent a lot of time out of school. So she was homeschooled for a long time. She came in class and has hammered out I think she's Libra in clubhouse with 30 credits which is outstanding. Um Mason's done the same thing last couple years. He spent at least a how long a school year out >> for no different reasons but he's been in the program last two years and has faced every obstacle we put in front of him.
Um the other is our e-learning plan. um still strong believers that the uh synchronous plan is is uh better than the asynchronous plan. So there are no changes to the e-learning uh plan at this time. What else do I have? Um I learn testing is done. Uh we will not get results until July. Um however, not sure how this will work. Uh the state gave us a window for rescores uh May I'll say May 30th to June 5th for rescores but that doesn't really make sense because we don't have scores back. Um this is a year that they're going to get a baseline on the test. So I don't anticipate any rescores from anybody with no scores. Um I read uh testing the second round uh for students who uh did not pass um started today the window did. Um I think we will probably do that later on in the week.
>> Mr. Fall space bar. >> Space bar. >> Not either. >> Escape. Control. Delete. >> Hard reset. >> Restart your computer. >> Hang on. We're going to skip. >> Oh. Oh, that was fancy. >> If you hover, if you hover bottom left, do you get an arrow? >> This worked two seconds ago. >> Welcome to the academy where we overcome things every day. >> There we go. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, um, this is also a little bit more filled out than it has been in past years. We have a staff of 19 now uh counting everybody. Um and I feel like uh it's probably the best staff that I've ever worked with. Um and part of that is because it's small and manageable. Um but the rest is because the people are true professionals and I'm very fortunate to work with them.
I would encourage everyone to go look at if they submitted questions, go look at the answer and see if it was answered >> something that makes sense to you. And if not, I would resubmit them. Um, I don't know that we're hopefully there's a another forum to kind of make right what happened >> and get answers to people, but I I don't know. But at least encourage people to go see if your question was answered. Now, I have a question about the questions. Um, were are were some of these questions that weren't answered at the original question session, were they then subsequently answered by the EPA, D people? Is that obvious from what's up there? >> I don't know. In fact, that was one of my followup questions. Who answered it? because it wouldn't make sense that a state body would answer something in conflict with with something on the state website.
And I think some of your other topics show how we might have a might make it difficult for us to act on that, though. Okay, that sounds great. All right, so I just, uh just cuz we're all things cultural and historically uh I watched Well, I've seen it before and it just happened to be on uh TCM and I watched uh Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. And it's a Frank Capra movie and it stars Jean Arthur, who's fabulous, and James Stewart and and um Claude Rains, if you're into some of the horror movies, he was in horror movies. Um So, it's it it's just this really awesome film about uh one of the senators dies, so then the governor of that state gets to send somebody in. So, there was some corruption going on, so they're trying to find someone who wouldn't cause any problems.
And uh so anyways um there's also I found it's in Burn Switzerland and it is the uh Museum of Communication and it really looks fabulous. It's interactive. They've got some post office stuff. Then they've got email and more modern stuff. And I only went to Switzerland once. I went in high school. We had a skiing trip to Davos and it was really funny. The whole thing was funny. There wasn't much snow, but um anyways, I I need to get back to Switzerland so I can see this museum. All right. So to Oh, did you want to talk about the bad girl rules? >> Oh, I think >> Okay, we're going to slightly go off. Uh >> well it's we want to remind oursel I'll I'll call it under the communication umbrella as well. We started I I do remember our very first um podcast that I was able to be a co-host and again thank you for the opportunity to co-host bad girls are persistent.
The select board doesn't return to the town manager." Or, "Why aren't we following our charter?" Or, "How did things pass how did things pass town meeting and fail at the at the ballot when people have gotten up and said, "You're not listening to us." So, there definitely seems to be, and we talked about this, I don't know what month it was, the listening, an absolute listening problem. Oh, and while I'm at it, you know, we were supposed to have uh a listening tour about the ride, and there were two public forums for people to get up and speak. I went to the first one. The second one was supposed to be in April. And I'm waiting for it, and I'm waiting for it, and I wouldn't say anything. So then I had to do a couple of emails and I found out it had been cancelled.
Domestico takes a walk, good at bat. Not afraid to take a walk there, which is getting that base runner in as he has done all year long. I would suspect that coach Larry Sasso is going to have a runner for Bella. As you As you may or may not know, George, we get a courtesy runner for the pitchers and catchers here in the MIA softball. So, senior tri-captain Quinn Herder is coming off the bench today to run for Bella Domestico and she's got some wheels. So, this could be a threat here threat first. Let's keep an eye on her. Ava Vendetti steps to the plate. Ava Vendetti is an RBI machine. I've said that a number of times on these broadcasts. >> [crying and screaming] >> Get a runner in a scoring position and Ava will more than likely bring her home as she takes strike one to Randall.
So again, just very very difficult to test and place so hard. So Brandon had some choices to make too and he's going to be a national um competities investment. So very proud of you, Brandon. Um the next person is Mackenzie Krueger. McKenzie is um a qualifier for nationals and she placed first place in parliamentary procedure making this the third appearance in nationals in that event. So very excited for her. Um Jackson Nessen could not be here tonight. Um he's at baseball but he also placed he was part of that third place in community service project for that team. And um next is Alana Rogers. Alana Rogers, again, no stranger to the national stage. She placed first place in parliamentary procedure and will be going with us again to Texas. So, very excited for her. Um, Ares Williams. Ares took four events and I would say to say the least, she's had to make a lot of choices.
There were coffee, drinks, and all that. So, we were really blessed that we had such a supportive group to come and support us throughout the week there. We had some um high schools, junior high and high school students come over to the grade school on a couple different days. And third graders had just finished up the book, How to Eat Fried Worms. So, Mr. Gonzalez's class came over and they dissected a worm. Um the kids were thought that was pretty cool. Um, and we also had the high school kids come over for a city cleanup and they had a we had a load of rocks brought in that they spread out along the around the playground. We had our spring and art show and music concert last Thursday evening. We had lots of parents, grandparents, and um it was also a time that we could honor Mrs.
Okay, next one. Uh cost savings. So, we've been working on hiring employees versus contractors to save money. Um employees test for ESA and private school testing. it can be very expensive when you use contractors. So, we've been trying to use our own employees to do that testing instead. Um, and we have made progress. I do not have the final numbers yet though financially on how much that saved us. I will have that in the future. I just don't have it as of today. >> Federal law says we have to do the test for students who are ESA homeschool or private, >> but we don't get money for that. So, we have had a huge influx of special education students come to Chino Valley. Um, and so I reached out to our neighboring districts to ask what their percentages are for special education in their districts.