Cornerstone Prep Expanding
December 14, 2012
The Achievement School District (ASD) has just approved Cornerstone Prep to transform the Lester Middle School beginning next year. Cornerstone Prep will be leading pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade for 2013-2014 and then will be responsible for the entire school, pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade the following year.
This allows Cornerstone Prep to serve every child in the Lester Elementary School district in 2014 and then every sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade child in the entire Binghampton community the following year.
Cornerstone Prep has been working in the Lester School building as an ASD-approved school since August, teaching students from pre-Kindergarten through third grade. Since beginning this work in the Lester School building in August, Cornerstone Prep has seen exciting growth in student achievement. Here are a few reading level highlights from the first four months:
One first grade class has already grown an average of 1.6 grade levels- One third grade class has increased by an entire grade level
- One second grade class has increased their reading level by 1.1 years
Cornerstone Prep has also received a great deal of positive feedback from parents and students during the short time on the Lester Campus:
- A parent shared this recently, “I love it (Cornerstone Prep). I can see how much my child is learning. My kids come home and teach me stuff. I love the teachers so much.”
- One proud mom says: “Every time Jonathon comes home now, he wants to read to me! He will grab a book, and read to me. If he doesn’t know a word, he will say ‘don’t tell me. I know it! I can sound it out. And he does.”
- Current Cornerstone Prep students recently took an anonymous survey and 100 percent of MIT 3 students remarked “I am happy to be at Cornerstone Prep!”
Cornerstone Prep looks forward to similar results in grades six through eight in the years to come.
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