Valley View School

Welcome to Valley View, home of the Ravens

PALOMINAS ELEMENTARY DISTRICT SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
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The election for the 2012-2013 PTO Board is coming up on Wednesday, May 16. It will be held at 3:45pm in the Valley View Library. We would love to see some new faces and get more parents, stepparents, grandparents or guardians involved with this important and very rewarding organization. The PTO helps the school and our students by fundraising, organizing fun events such as student dances and parties and acting as a liaison between our Valley View families and the school.

We will have openings for a PTO President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Recording Secretary and Public Relations Secretary. Please click on the link below to see description of the duties for each officer, and to fill out a nomination form. New officers can be nominated by themselves, or by another person provided they have permission from the person they are nominating.

PTO Board Nomination Form & Job Duties

Nomination are needed by 3:30pm on Wednesday, May 16.

We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Karisa Haymore, Marlee King, Rebecca Ellis and Jessica Holmes for the fantastic job they have done with the Valley View PTO for the past 3 years. They more than deserve a break and are excited to offer help and support to our new PTO Board as they take over next year.

SCHOOL HOURS
8:15am - Earliest permitted drop off time
8:45am - School starts for all grades
3:30pm - K-5 students dismissed
3:35pm - Junior High students dismissed
1:45pm - Early release for all students on Thursdays




This year, Arizona’s school accountability system is transitioning from AZ Learns to A-F Letter grades. Letter grades will be used as just one measure of how a school is performing. With the new A-F system, parents benefit by having, at their fingertips, an easy-to-understand, equitable school grading system when deciding which educational environment best meets their children’s needs. Schools benefit by identifying both areas of strength and areas that need improvement.

To hold schools accountable in a fair and equitable fashion, each school is equally evaluated both on how many of its students are passing AIMS each year and how much its students academically grow each year. Other factors such as dropout rate, graduation rate and English language learner reclassification rate are taken into consideration, when applicable.

While schools cannot control the knowledge level of new students (students starting kindergarten or transfer students), they can affect and are responsible for how much their full-academic year students learn from one grade to the next. The new accountability system measures and compares this student learning on a school-by school basis.

All students deserve a quality public education that moves them academically ahead every year. The new letter grade accountability system measures that progress, grading schools on an intuitive and fair A to F scale. In the end, information obtained from the new A-F letter grade system will serve as an important starting point for parents making decisions about their children’s education.

Valley View received a “B” for the 2010-2011 school year. A “B” rating demonstrates an above average level of performance. To reach an “A” rating, Valley View adopted Beyond Textbooks to provide consistency across the curriculum. Our focus this year is mathematics.

The new Arizona accountability system is in a transition year. The transition period will last two years. If you would like more information on the new system, the A-F Information Guide can be found here.

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