Coffee With the Superintendent

FYI Community-

Superintendent Stevenson and Standley Lake area principals invite parents/guardians and key communicators

for coffee and an opportunity to discuss important school and district issues 

 

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
STANDLEY LAKE HIGH SCHOOL

Library

9300 W 104^th Avenue • Westminster • 80021

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Please RSVP to 303-982-6808 by Friday, October 4

Welcome SLHS Class of 2017!

We welcomed the class of 2017 to the building today as school kicked off with freshman orientation.  We have over 320 of our incoming freshman here all day getting acclimated to their new building.  The LINK program is one of  the best and most important traditions as SLHS as upper classmen have a chance to mentor and track a group of freshmen on the ins and outs of high school life. 

TCAP results have record GROWTH

SLHS Community,

I've been waiting to release these results to you for two weeks now.  I am extremely proud to say that our TCAP and ACT results are in and we performed amazingly!  Our students showed growth in all 7 areas with specific results below-  As you will see from our data, we not only showed growth in all areas, but our status scores are better than they've been in four years!  That says a lot about the staff, student dedication, and the support this community provided us last year. 

Many of you were involved and informed of our "portfolio" approach to education this past year and the staff really pushed the importance of students taking responsibility for all aspects of their education to include any an all standardized testing and our new approach to challenge students to take the "right" classes based on this portfolio of educational information. 

Percentage of student Proficient/Advanced
TCAP	2009-2010		2010-2011		2011-2012		2012-13
	9th	10th	9th	10th	9th	10th	9th	10th
Reading	73	78	73	65	72	69	77	81
Writing	53	59	57	51	56	51	65	66
Math	51	42	47	35	47	40	52	45
Science	-	55	-	52	-	49	-	66

SLHS Construction Update

SLHS community,

The summer construction project is moving right along as crews have been working day and night to stay on schedule as we inch closer and closer to the start of a new year.  We are anticipating a completion date of August 12th with some final walk throughs the following week.  We still do not have parking access on site but expect the parking lot to be completed by August 5th.   Pictures of the project are included below and to the right. 

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacation.

Congratulations to Zoie Hoben- JEFFCO Female MVP

Congratulations to Senior Zoie Hoben as she was voted the Femall MVP/Athlete of the year for JEFFCO schools.  She along with her family attended an MVP brunch where players of the year, coaches of the year along with hall of fame inductees were honored last week.  What a tremendous honor to have another Gator representing JEFFCO athletics- 

Student athletes, State Championship game, and Letters of Intent

We have mutltiple SLHS student athletes that parcicipate on the Wheat Ridge Lacross team who plays for a state title tomorrow afternoon at 2:00pm at Sports Authority Field- 

Congratulations to the following student athletes who signed letters of intent to play college athletics-

Marcus Washington- Ottawa University- Track and Field
Haley Lopez- Grinnell College- Basketball
Eric Ung- Evansville University- Swimming
Dylan Sherry- Adams State University - Baseball

I also want to send a warm thank you and congratulations to Coach Gary Allen as he is retiring this year from baseball.  Gary served as our head coach for the past 5 years.  Best of luck on your next endeavors Gary! 

Awards and Accomplishments

Hello SLHS community,

I cannot belive the month of may is half complete, but that means a very busy season of student achievement recognition is underway along with preparations for our commencement ceremony. 
We held our annual academic awards night this past Monday and I am once again impressed with the diverse representation of awards and recipients from this school community.  We have such a talented group of young men and women and to see them be recognized by staff for their hard work is extremely fulfilling. 

- The senior class of 2013 has earned to date a total of $1.3 million in scholarships with nearly half of that amount being earned by the 24 IB graduates.

- 41% of our entire student body this year was enrolled in at least one honors or above course! 

- Danielle Benton was awarded the Pro Start student of the year and recognized at the annual state awards banquet.

- We have our first acceptance to Standford in the history of SLHS- Katlyn Alapati

- Multiple Ivy league acceptances with one that will be attending Yale next year- Evan Narvaez

- Our athletic awards will take place next Monday May 20th and will recognize the amazing year in sports for our teams.  We just recently learned that 5 of our athletes earned JEFFCO MVP status at the league awards banquet with Zoie Hoben earning Female Athlete of the Year!!! 

- We've had fifteen student athlete letter of intent signings with a record five division one scholarships for athletics. 

This has been a year full of celebrations, sadness, and fear at times, but as always we persevered through to once again put another notch in the wall on the road to excellence.