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= Hope Elementary School =

Introduction
Hope Elementary School is one of the three elementary schools located in the Scituate district. It is a safe school that is filled teachers when genuinely care about their students and take interest in their school work as well as their personal lives. The students are excited about learning and enjoy interacting with one another. The students at Hope Elementary School have also proven over the past three years to do sufficiently better on the state exams than the average elementary schools in Rhode Island. Overall Hope Elementary School is a clean environment with students who enjoy every aspect of the learning process. This report will discuss different aspects of Hope Elementary School. It will discuss its environment and activities offered, demographics of the students, the teachers, the students, accountability and assessment. Ideally this report is written for any parent who is thinking about placing their student in Hope Elementary or any teacher who is seeking a job at this elementary school.

The Environment and Activities offered
Hope Elementary School is located in Hope, RI on North Road right on route 116. It was first in 1929 and has since been renovated in 1972 and again in 1990. This school shows pride in their students work by displaying drawings and artwork done by the students all along the hallways in Hope Elementary. Hope Elementary is situated in a safe environment; the majority of students and staff always feel safe here. The cleanliness of the school is always maintained by the four custodians who are on staff here. The rest of the staff consists of one administrator, twenty-four full and part time faculty, and ten aides. There are about 292 students that attend HopeElementary school each year; all of these students are through grades K-5. There are electives the students have to take such as art, music and physical education; there are separate teachers for these classes. Overall the students as well as the teachers enjoy coming to Hope Elementary school five days a week. It is a safe, clean, learning environment.

**Demographics **
The student population at Hope Elementary school is made up of 54%male students and 46% female students. The race and ethnicity of the students at Hope Elementary is 99% white with only 1% being Asian. This information can be based on the race and ethnicity found in Scituate as a whole. The majority of the people residing in Scituate are white and just a few are Asian or African American; (See Scituate community page for more information). There are about 14% of students at Hope Elementary School participating in free lunch, 9% participate in reduced price lunch, and 76% of students participate in neither free lunch or reduced lunch. There are not any students receiving bilingual services in Hope Elementary.

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The teachers at Hope Elementary School strive to meet the needs of their students. ====== About three fourths of the teachers at Hope Elementary School have a Masters degree

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in elementary education. The other one fourth of teachers have a Bachelors degree. Many of the teachers at Hope Elementary have at least a few years of experience with elementary education. There are requirements in ones education background and experience level in order to be a teacher here. The teachers feel safe and in the school and do not feel threatened by students or other faculty members. The teachers get along well with one another and their students. About 80% of the students think that the teachers take a personal interest in them. This goes to show that the teachers at Hope Elementary School make a difference in their students’ lives and hey enjoy every aspect of teaching. 

Students
The students at Hope Elementary are cooperative and seem to enjoy the learning process as a whole. Most of the students at Hope get along well with one another, but in a survey taken, 25% of students who took the survey said that they were having trouble getting along with other students; grades four and five were the only ones who took the survey, so 25% is not as high a percentage as it seems. According to the most recent SALT report, students appear to interact happily with one another and greet visitors with respect and kindness. They feel safe in their environment and perceive there to be a positive school climate filled with support by faculty and staff.



Accountability and Assessment
Hope Elementary’s students’ test scores exceed the state standards by about 20% in both Math and English Language Arts . This can be seen from the table below, which gives the exact percentages for both the state elementary schools in comparison to Hope Elementary School. Hope Elementary School's state scores have improved more progressively than Rhode Island Elementary Schools have and this can be seen from the tables below. The only results that were recorded from the state tests were for grades 3, 4 and 5. Most of the students at Hope in the past have received proficient in Math and English Language Arts portion of the state test. There are a small percentage of students who received proficient with distinction and there are a few students who received partially proficient. Results showed that a higher percentage of students received proficient with distinction in grades 4 and 5 as opposed to grade 3. Overall the majority of the students taking the state tests are doing above average compared to the other elementary schools in Rhode Island and Hope Elementary has a higher percentage of students participating in the state tests.


 * || Math || English Language Arts ||
 * 2007 Hope's Percentages || 89.6% || 91.0% ||
 * 2007 RI's Percentages || 68.1% || 80.1% ||
 * Performance Progress for all Test Grades at Hope Elementary **
 * || Math || Reading || Writing ||
 * 05-06 || 59 || 74 || 58 ||
 * 06-07 || 64 || 76 || 64 ||
 * 07-08 || 64 || 77 || 70 ||

Performance Progress for all Test Grades in Rhode Island Elementary
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 * || Math || Reading || Writing ||
 * 05-06 || 52 || 60 || 55 ||
 * 06-07 || 56 || 65 || 51 ||
 * 07-08 || 57 || 66 || 54 ||

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====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The statistics in the above tables show that Hope Elementary school does meet the AYP standard. What is interesting to note about these statistics is that Hope Elementary has proven to have not only better test grades than most elementary schools in Rhode Island, but has also proven to do better progressively than the average of Rhode Island's elementary schools as a whole. Some reasons for this could be due to the fact that Scituate as a community is one of the more wealthier communities located in Rhode Island. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Therefore they have the materials they need to prepare their students for these state wide tests. The data for the community of Scituate and its economic status can be viewed on the Scituate community page. ====

Conclusion
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hope Elementary School is located in the Scituate school district and can be found on North Road in Hope, RI. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Overall Hope Elementary is a clean and safe educational environment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The majority of students as Hope are 99% white and only 1% Asian. The teachers at Hope Elementary School strive to meet the needs of their student. They are well educated individuals with a lot of experience in their field. The students at this school love learning and are intrigued by the topics that are taught to them. The students also perform well on state exams and have proven to exceed the state’s average. This can all be linked back to the teachers striving to meet their students’ needs and the students being cooperative and having an interest in learning.