MCCSC makes Four Star schools list

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announced today Indiana’s Four Star Schools for the 2012-13 school year.

To reach the designation of being a Four Star School, a school must be in the top 25th percentile of schools in three ISTEP-based categories.

More than 300 schools in Indiana were named Four Star Schools.

“I am honored to name these schools as our Four Star Schools for this year,” Ritz said in a press release. “Winning this award required excellent work by teachers, administrators, students and parents throughout the year, and on behalf of the entire Indiana Department of Education, I send them my sincere congratulations.”

Five schools in the Monroe County Community School Corporation received this honor — Binford and University elementary schools, Tri-North and Jackson Creek middle schools and Bloomington High School South.

Childs and Lakeview elementary schools and Tri-North and Jackson Creek middle schools received Four Star designations for the 2011-12 school year.

In 2009-10 and 2010-11, three MCCSC schools were named Four Star Schools.
 
Edgewood High School in the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation was also named a Four Star School for the 2012-13 school year.

The first time the Four Star designations were given to schools was during the 2009-10 school year.

Sydney Murray