Kelly Elementary School
Carlsbad, California
(Pearson Digital Learning SuccessMaker)

District Profile
Kelly Elementary, part of Carlsbad Unified School District, serves over 600 students in Kindergarten through sixth grade. It is located in a middle class area of central Carlsbad.
 

Goals

Challenging Every Student
Carlsbad Unified School District’s goal for all students enrolled in the district at least three years is to perform at or above grade level in basic subjects. Kelly Elementary has a school goal to improve student achievement in reading and mathematics by providing basic skills reinforcement for all students and challenging material for honor students.
 

The Plan

The Right Combination of Courses
Kelly Elementary implemented SuccessMaker^® in 1988 to help reach its goals. The individually-directed instruction provided by the interactive courseware allows them to serve the needs of a wide variety of students. Students in grades 3 through 6 work on the curriculum for 30 minutes, three times a week, in the school’s 34-station lab. Students in grade 2 have the opportunity to practice once a week and even first graders have the opportunity to visit the lab on occasion.

Kelly educators use a combination of courses to help students build complex reading skills and to ensure that all students are working on challenging material. When students exceed grade level performance on foundations reading, they are advanced to courses that require more critical thinking. Student progress is carefully monitored so that there is continuous improvement in achievement.

A former Kelly Elementary lab manager, Lynn Saggart, created a correlation of Reading Adventures (a higher level reading course) to the California STAR (Standardized Testing and Reporting) reading test. Teachers use the reading course to prepare students for the test in the spring. The lab is also open after school for students who would like extra practice. Motivational programs and bulletin boards keep the students on target.
 

Remarkable Results

An Exemplary School
Students at Kelly Elementary have achieved increasingly higher levels on SuccessMaker courses from year to year.

• By 2000, the average end-of-year levels on the reading and mathematics courseware for grades 3 through 6 had increased one full level since 1991.

Students at Kelly achieve higher levels on SuccessMaker courses with each successive year.

In reading:

In math:

• Kelly was listed in the top 10 percent of schools in the state by the State Department of Education based on 1993-4 California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test scores.

 
• According to California’s Academic Performance Index (API) from 1999, the school achieved a statewide rank of 10 out of 10, in addition to a rank of 10 in comparison to schools considered “similar” by the API standards.

• From 1996 to 2000, the average percentage of 2nd through 6th grade students scoring above the 50th National Percentile Rank (NPR) increased from 78 percent to 86 percent in reading and 83 percent to 93 percent in math. The majority of Kelly students are performing above average on the exam.

Increase in students scoring above the 50th National Percentile Rank

In reading:

In math:

 

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