Milwaukee Public Schools has set another record for the number of schools awarded by an independent, statewide organization for promoting positive behaviors: 100 schools, up from 79 last year.
MPS also broke records for the number of schools recognized in the area of academics: 62 in reading, up from 39 last year and 52 in math, up from 22 last year.
The honors come from the Wisconsin RtI Center, a statewide organization that helps schools implement successful, proven programs including Response to Intervention (RtI) behavior – Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), which helps build strong school environments, and RtI academics, which builds supports to meet students’ individual needs so all can achieve academic success.
“A positive school environment helps students learn and we are honored that so many of our schools are being recognized by an independent organization for doing just that,” MPS Superintendent Dr. Darienne Driver said. “Meeting the individual learning needs of all students is equally important and a growing number of MPS schools are being honored for that work as well. Congratulations to our educators, support staff, district-level administrators as well as students and families for making this happen.”
The MPS schools were recognized as either a School of Distinction, the highest honor, or a School of Merit. The schools are:
- Academy of Accelerated Learning (AAL): Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Academia de Lenguaje y Bellas Artes (ALBA): Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Alcott School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Math
- Allen-Field Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Audubon Technology and Communication Center High School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Auer Avenue School: Distinction-Behavior
- Lloyd Barbee Montessori School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Barton School: Merit-Behavior
- Bay View High School: Merit-Reading
- Bethune Academy: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Brown Street Elementary School: Merit-Behavior
- Bruce Elementary School: Merit-Behavior
- Bryant Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Luther Burbank School: Merit-Behavior
- A.E. Burdick School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Carson Academy: Merit-Behavior
- Cass Street School: Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Clarke Street School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Samuel Clemens Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Clement Avenue School: Merit-Behavior
- Congress School: Distinction-Behavior
- James Fennimore Cooper School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Jeremiah Curtin Leadership Academy: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Anna F. Doerfler School: Merit-Behavior
- Eighty-First Street Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Emerson Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Fairview School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading
- Fernwood Montessori School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Forest Home Avenue Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Escuela Fratney: Merit-Behavior
- Benjamin Franklin School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Frederick J. Gaenslen School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading
- Hamlin Garland School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Goodrich Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- U.S. Grant School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Math
- Grantosa Drive School: Merit-Behavior
- Greenfield Bilingual School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Alexander Hamilton High School: Merit-Behavior
- Hampton Elementary School: Distinction-Reading
- Hartford University School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Hawley Environmental School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Math
- Hawthorne Elementary School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Hayes Bilingual School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Math
- Hi-Mount Community School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- O.W. Holmes School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Hopkins Lloyd Community School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Honey Creek Continuous Progress Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Howard Avenue Montessori School: Merit-Reading
- Humboldt Park School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- IDEAL School: Distinction-Behavior
- Gwen T. Jackson Early Childhood and Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Kagel Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Byron Kilbourn Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School: Distinction-Behavior
- Rufus King International Middle School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Math
- Rufus King International High School: Merit-Behavior
- Richard Kluge Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- La Causa Charter School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Robert LaFollette School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading
- Lincoln Center of the Arts Middle School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Math
- H.W. Longfellow School: Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Lowell Elementary School: Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- MacDowell Montessori School: Merit-Behavior
- Manitoba School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Maryland Avenue Montessori School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Golda Meir School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Math
- Ralph H. Metcalfe School: Merit-Behavior
- Milwaukee Environmental Sciences Academy: Merit-Behavior
- Milwaukee French Immersion School: Distinction-Behavior
- Milwaukee German Immersion School: Merit-Behavior
- Milwaukee High School of the Arts: Merit-Behavior
- Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Milwaukee School of Languages: Merit-Behavior
- Milwaukee Spanish Immersion School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Mitchell Integrated Arts School: Merit-Behavior
- Morse Marshall School for the Gifted and Talented: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Neeskara Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- New School for Community Service: Merit-Behavior
- Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- North Division High School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Parkview Elementary School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading
- Pierce Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Project Stay: Merit-Reading
- Pulaski High School: Merit-Math
- Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Riverside University High School: Merit-Behavior
- Rogers Street Academy: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Roosevelt Creative Arts Middle School: Distinction-Behavior
- Shalom High School: Merit-Behavior
- Sherman Creative Arts School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Siefert Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Silver Spring Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- St. Charles: Merit-Behavior
- Frances Starms Early Childhood Center: Distinction-Behavior, Merit-Math
- Stuart Elementary School: Merit-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Merit-Math
- Henry David Thoreau School: Distinction-Behavior
- Thurston Woods Campus: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading, Distinction-Math
- Townsend Street School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Transition High School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
- Trowbridge School of Discovery & Technology: Distinction-Behavior
- Victory and Milwaukee Italian Immersion School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Escuela Vieau: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Reading
- Wedgewood Park International School: Distinction-Behavior, Distinction-Math
- Westside Academy: Merit-Behavior
- Walt Whitman School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading, Merit-Math
- Whittier Elementary School: Distinction-Behavior
- Clement Zablocki Elementary School: Merit-Behavior, Merit-Reading
Virginia Small says
Important key points: these honors are from an independent statewide organization and many schools and indicators are moving in a positive direction.
These efforts and other innovations and programs serve as foundations to build upon.