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Hinton Area Elementary students perform as staff report attendance, safety and intervention plans
Summary
Hinton Area Elementary’s student lighthouse team performed a short play and school staff presented mid‑year benchmark and discipline data. The school reported a plan to raise attendance by 2%, seven fire drills and added interventions for struggling grades.
Students from Hinton Area Elementary’s student lighthouse/leadership team opened the school’s Local School Improvement Council presentation with a short play based on classroom reader material, followed by staff reports on attendance, safety and academic interventions.
“My name is Sonia Raul, school counselor here at Hinton Area Elementary, and I'm also the student lighthouse coordinator,” the counselor said, introducing the student performance and the school’s data review. The presentation described a school goal to raise attendance by 2% from last year’s 89.9% and to reduce chronic absenteeism to no more than 30%.
Staff reported safety work including seven fire drills to date, two intruder alert drills, and annual active‑shooter training for staff on Dec. 20. Presenters credited recent renovations with improving building security and visitor flow.
The school displayed AIMSweb benchmark results showing improvements in oral reading fluency and math fluency across most kindergarten and early elementary grades, while noting that third through fifth grades were struggling in math proficiency. Presenters described specific adjustments: continuing the identified curriculum (referred to in the presentation as “Enodimat”), adding a digital intervention for grades 1–2, and scheduling two‑week intensive interventions in grades where gaps were identified.
Discipline data drew attention: referrals rose from 42 in the prior year to 66 as of February (a 36% increase). Staff noted that 27 of the 66 referrals (41%) involved students with IEPs and described tiered supports (PBIS, classroom interventions, lunch‑time small groups, behavior contracts and SAP referrals) and partnerships with outside agencies such as Raynell Medical Center and parentguidance.org.
Staff invited board members to conduct classroom walk‑throughs to observe instructional practices and PLC (professional learning community) work. Presenters emphasized that strengthened PLCs and targeted interventions had led to measurable gains in many grade levels.
