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Greetings Mountaineer Families!
This has been such a wonderful year at Cascade! We are extremely proud of the successes of our students. The students are just finishing up our testing and we hope to meet all of our academic goals. Our departments have raised the bar and have been putting much effort into moving as many students as possible into the "exceeds" category on reading, math and science. At a quick glance, we are extremely close at meeting our mark of 49% in reading, 48% in math and 60% in science in the "exceeds" category. Our overall "meets" and "exceeds" percentages also look right on target. The reason we are pushing student into the "exceeds" category is that we know those students are on track to be college ready. Although it is wonderful for over 90% of all of our students to "meet" and "exceed", in reading, math and science, we want to push them to their best and be ready to go to college.
We are also celebrating our increase in percentage for attendance. We are currently at 93.75% and this is up from last year. Thank you to all the parents and students who have encouraged better attendance. We know if they are here, they learn more!
Student's have participated in many service projects this year. They were able to collect over 3000 lbs of food for food banks, collected coats for the needy, collected dog food for homeless people with pets, participated in a flash mob downtown to raise awareness for our Sparrow, jumped in a freezing pool to collect donations through Chain -Link Club, all 8th graders volunteered 10 hours of their time for their "Helping Hands" service learning project, and our final event, playing against the Harlem Wizards, to earn more money for our Sparrow. It has been magnificent to see them enjoy themselves and help our community at the same time. We truly believe that acts of kindness brings our students together in a positive way.
We want to wish our 8th graders the absolute best in high school next year, and welcome our new incoming 6th graders for next fall! We will be bringing the 5th graders from our feeder schools over for a visit on May 31st from 9:30-11:00 to hear all about middle school. Our 8th grade celebration will be held on June 8th starting at 6:30. We ask that only 8th grade students and parents attend our reception as our gym space is limited.
I want to personally thank all of the parent volunteers for everything you helped our school with this year. I have never worked with such a invested group and we appreciate all of the work. Parents who are involved make huge impacts on students' success.
Have a wonderful spring!
Sincerely,
Stephanie Bennett
Principal
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