About Our School

Our Mission

To provide a technology-enriched learning environment that fosters personal growth and civic awareness.

Our Vision

To offer students exciting and unique learning experiences that prepare them for graduation, and to increase the school performance score by 5 points by the end of the 2025 school year.

Our Core Values

TEAM

DATA DRIVEN

ACTIVE-LISTENING

VOICE

what makes us different

Our 2024 - 2025 Goals

Increase student enrollment and performance.

  • Magnet Expectations
  • talented Creative Science & Art Recruitment
  • Talented Arts Referrals and Recruitment
  • Student Voice
  • HS Offerings and STEAM
  • Course Catalog displaying 6-8 progression matrix
  • Alignment between transitioning schools

Steps for Success

  • Regular communication between the school counselor and home
  • Teacher and student IGP (Pathways) development and updates
  • Semester and annual data presentations
  • Master Scheduling with school pathways and expansion
  • Community partnerships
  • Surveys
  • Goal setting binders

Increase student composite score & Mastery.

Our goal for LEAP 2025 is for a SPS increase of 5 points, from 48.4 to 53.4.

Goal: to increase the SPS by 5 points.

  • I & O max
  • Max DCAI of 131.7
  • 15 point growth by all students
  • 10% mastery by each core subject

Subgroups goal: increase by 15 points.

Steps for Success

  • Targeted staff PLCs aligned with ILT
  • Set monthly instructional focus, TLAC
  • Targeted LEAP practice assessments, Illuminate sample questions, ELPT, CFAs, & annotated lesson plans aligned with LEAP-like questions while implementing LEAP subject rubric
  • Progress monitoring tiered student support
  • Literacy & writing focus campus-wide with consistent participation in core platforms
  • Bo-monthly school-wide failure report, common grading, and grade distribution 
  • Professional development, instructional strategies, and instructional coaching
  • ILT Long Range Plan
  • Shared vision
  • Making connections between student work samples and teachers’ strenghts and weaknesses
  • Double block subgroups based on LEAP data
  • Title I funding allocation
  • Year-to-year data comparison
  • Strategic tutoring plan

Increase student attendance.

Our average attendance goal is 97%.

Maintain Student Discipline

Decrease suspension rate by 10%.

Steps for Success

  • Increase student voice through:
    • Student Advisory Counsel
    • Teacher Advisory Counsel
    • Student Government
      • Elected grade level president
      • Homeroom representatives
  • Revitalize PBIS utilizing stakeholder input
  • PBIS incentives
  • Campus upgrades
  • Food bank
  • Professional development with SIS Team/CWA on taking attendance & technology integration
  • Surveys for teachers and students
    • Bi-monthly incentives
  • Strengthened partnership between school, CWA, and families
    • Increased family check-ins with frequently absent students
    • matched support provided to students to aid in attendance
  • Create an environment conducive for learning
  • Project based learning

Increase teacher capacity & student participation in activities.

Steps for Success

  • Grade level/vertical planning meetings
  • Parent Teacher Organization
  • STEAM Fair
  • Athletics, partnerships, and clubs
  • Community Events
    • Literacy Night
    • Math Night
    • Project-based learning
    • Open House
    • Graduation
    • Spring Fling
    • Field Day
  • PBIS-Monthly Academic & Character Award Celebrations
  • Teacher and student surveys to address student achievement, campus climate, and campus culture
  • Updated campus security and safety expectations

Increase communication between school and home.

Steps for Success

  • Grade level meetings & parent nights
  • JCampus communication
    • Frequent callouts and texts
  • Social media
  • Google classroom for faculty & grade levels
  • New school website
  • School App

PFM Magnet STEAM Programs &
HS Credit Offerings

Entertainment Technology

Digital Media
Video Editing
Multimedia Productions *** 

Renewable Energy

AgriScience

Robotics and Coding

Robotics 6
Robotics 7
Robotics 8

STEM

Engineering Design
Intro to Stem Pathways (LSU) ***  

*** Denotes High School Credit 

Additional Electives &
HS Credit Offerings

Core Content

Math:  Algebra I ***
Science:  Aquaponics
Social Studies:  World Geography ***

Career & Technical Education

Fam & Cons Sci I ***
Quest for Success ***

Foreign Language

Spanish I ***

Technology

Game & App Design
Music & Technology

Performing Arts  

Band
Dance
Orchestra
Music Appreciation

Visual Arts

Art
Digital Media
Yearbook

Vocational Education

JAG
JROTC