PSSC Stanley High Sustainability Study Presentation Position of
PSSC - Stanley High Sustainability Study Presentation
Position of the PSSC �The Stanley High School PSSC is in favor of maintaining 2 schools within one complex.
REASONS: � Negative students impact on the Health & Safety of � Negative impact on Quality Education and Services to students � Negative impact on staff � Insufficient information on actual outcome of consolidating the two schools
Health & Safety Elementary and Secondary
Feel safe attending this school - Elementary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013 99 Percentage that feel safe 94 89 84 79 74 Cambridge. Canterbury Hartland John Caldwell Saint Mary's Stanley
Bullying - Elementary “Tell Them From Me" about Bullying and School Safety Elementary (2013 -14) Bullying Rate 30% 27% 27% 25% 20% 19% 17% 14% 15% 10% 5% le y an St s M in t Sa Jo hn Ca ld w ar y' el l nd H ar tla y ur ur b nt Ca Ca m br id ge 0%
Feel safe attending this school – Secondary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Percentage that feel safe Cambridge. Canterbury Hartland John Caldwell Saint Mary's Stanley
Bullying – Secondary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013 35 30 25 Bullying Rate 33 25 27 28 20 26 17 15 10 5 0 Cambridge. Canterbury Hartland John Caldwell Saint Mary's Stanley
What we have now is working! � Students of both Stanley Elementary and Stanley High feel secure. � Why would we make a change that could jeopardize this?
Quality Education & Services Focus on Secondary School
Savings � No substantial or substantive savings Total Costs Elementary 2013/14 $ Total Costs High School 2013/14 $ 1, 365, 444 Combined Costs $ 2, 182, 458 Annual Savings (after year 3) As a percentage of combined costs � Less 817, 014 $ 18, 705 0. 85% than 1% � No indication savings would be reinvested in Quality Education or Services � Trying to achieve these savings will have other negative impacts
Delivery of Education & Services � Scheduling ◦ Currently schedule one set of teachers around middle school programming and high school programming. ◦ Combining the schools would mean scheduling one set of teachers around three distinct programming needs: elementary, middle and high. ◦ Already challenging, more factors to consider will not improve delivery.
School Improvement Plans � Role of the PSSC is to review the school improvement plan. � Elementary and High School plans are different – different focus, different priorities. � Combining the schools is going to either water down these plans or make them so large and complex as to be unmanageable.
Logistics � Lunch hours, shared spaces, bussing, supervision of students, bell schedules, prep time, field trips, parent-teacher meetings, professional development conferences, detention halls, tutoring, school activities, sports activities, community use of the schools, etc. � All sorted between two schools and two administrations. � Time and resources to reconfigure is wasted.
Subject matter and age � As a PSSC we have seen the challenges of finding teachers that can teach across subjects as is required in a small school. � Combing schools will further require teachers that can teach across age groups/maturity levels. ◦ The skills called upon to manage a group of 6 year olds and a group of 16 year olds vary greatly.
Negative Impact on Staff AND Students
Principal Positions ` � 2 `1 1 1 ◦ Elementary 1 for 104 students Q ◦ High School 1 for 148 students ◦ Combined 1 for 252 students Q N BB BB � Increase in responsibility for 70 % more students based on high school numbers � Responsibility for more than twice as many students based on elementary numbers
Principal Report School Concerns – drug use
Principal Report Policy Update – use of electronics (Cyber bullying)
Different Worlds � Issues that the Principals need to deal with between Elementary and High School are vastly different. � Not only double the students the principals are responsible for. � Also doubles the issues that they are responsible for. � Added stressors for the sole Principal of a combined school.
Insufficient Information Many unanswered questions about the reality of what a combines school will be.
Questions Remain about… � Office Location and related renovation costs ◦ Won’t take much to eat up 18, 000 in savings � FTE positions & top-ups ◦ Difficult to assess the impact
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