WICKLUND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

2005 API Scores

The API scores for the 2004-2005 School year have been released. These scores reflect that Wicklund Elementary scored exceptionally well. You can see the report for San Joaquin County here.

Wicklund Elementary API Report

For links to other reports for the 2004-2005 school year, you can visit the state page.

http://ayp.cde.ca.gov/reports.asp

2005 STAR Scores

The 2005 STAR scores have been released by the state. While it does not yet include the API scores, it shows the number of students who tested at certain levels in our school, and school's across the state.

Wicklund Elementary Report

Lammersville District Report

Our school did very well in the English portion. We were much higher than the county average for San Joaquin County. The math scores were not as high as Livermore, but were still very promising.

Basically, if you look at the number of students who tested "Advanced" and "Proficient". In virtually every grade, at least 50% of our students tested at these two levels in English-Language Arts. Several grades (4th and 7th) scored 70% or higher.

In math, almost all of our grades tested 60% or more students at these levels (Proficient and Advanced). 6th-8th did not fare as well, and this is something that the district has been working on (our 8th grade students take Algebra).

Other areas are tested, but not school wide (5th grade is the only grade tested for science, 8th grade is the only grade tested for history).

Individual test scores are mailed home to each student (if you child was in another school/district last year, make sure you changed your address or check back with that school in September/October).

The topic may be covered at the August Governing Board meeting if you would like a more detailed discussion. Otherwise, feel free to post your comments here.

CONGRATULATIONS to Wicklund School on some very good scores!

School Fundraisers

Being a brand new school, Wicklund Elementary has some needs that could not be filled by the district. In addition, school's often use fundraisers to produce assemblies and provide funds for field trips. Fundraisers started before school opened included the brick and tile fundraiser, which has been very successful. An additional "fundraiser" has been the book drive, started by parents trying to fill our library's bare shelves. This is an ongoing drive and is seeing some success as well. The Foundation is also planning future fundraisers. We are exploring a golf tournament and other events. Currently, here are some of the fundraisers the Foundation is participating in:

Winter Carnival (in conjunction with Lammersville Elementary). Donations for room baskets are greatly appreciated.

Dinner at Rubio's - 20% of all meals on 10/4 when accompanied by a flyer (click here for flyer) will be donated to the Foundation.

Book Drive

Brick & Tile (orders are still being taken, but won't last much longer)

E-Scrip

Fundraisers have always been part of having a child in school. Every year we seem to have more and more of them. One way to raise funds for the school that doesn't require selling items is Scrip. E-Scrip allows us to raise funds simply by doing the things we do every day, shop. If you shop at Safeway, you can register to have a portion of your total purchase sent to WSF. Also, you can register certain credit cards to cover purchases at other store. You can register here: www.escrip.com/. Register today and start raising funds for our school the easy way.

Wicklund's First Fundraiser - Brick and Tile

As their first fundraiser, the Wicklund School Foundation will be selling personalized bricks and tiles. The tiles will be placed around the base of the stage at the outdoor amphitheater. The bricks will be paths leading to this area from the upper grade classrooms. Pictures of the sample bricks and tiles are shown below.

The cost for each brick or tile will be $40. Order forms are available here:

Brick Form

Tile Form

This will enable you to personalize your brick or tile. The tiles are 6 inch tiles and will have 4 lines of up to 20 characters. The picture shows a graphic of two children. This graphic is not part of the standard package, and is not available as part of our package. The bricks are standard red bricks which are customizable with 3 lines of up to 20 characters per line.

Orders will continue to be taken, but only for a short time, so get your orders in!

Click here for a brick order form.

Click here for a tile order form

School Site Council

The school site council will be a board of 10 members, responsible for a multitude of issues, including creation of the student/parent handbook, creation of the safety plan for the school, coordination of the dedication ceremony and recommendations to the Governing Board regarding many other issues. Of the 10 members, 5 will be staff and administration from the school. The other 5 members are residents of Wicklund Village. Those 5 members were elected at the March 31st meeting. 10 residents volunteered to be on the Council. Based on recommendations from those residents present at the meeting, those 10 names were put into a hat and drawn at random. The 5 resident members of the board are:

Thank you to all residents who volunteered to serve on the council, and congratulations to the five members who were selected. They will have a very important task ahead of them, and they hope to have the continued support of the community as they move forward. Their first meeting will be held on Monday, April 26th at 5:00 PM in the Lammersville Elementary School Library.

On Site Day Care Facility - CDC

The March 3rd meeting of the Wicklund Elementary Staffing Committee also included a brief presentation about the Day Care facility that will be housed on the Elementary School Campus. As of now, the school will house 24 full-time children from the ages of 2.9 years to 12 years old. In addition to full-time child care, the school will also look to house 12-14 children after school. It was discussed that this was a small number compared to the attendance at Wicklund Elementary (185 students currently expected as of the first day of school). No decision has been made as to how children will be selected should the number of interested children exceed their licensed capacity. You can visit CDI online at www.cdicdc.org. You can also contact the program director, Stella Montana.

These are very crucial issues to the school being fully prepared for the first day. Many parents expressed an interested in holding a coffee social on the first day to give people a chance to meet their neighbors, and meet the parents of children who will be going to class with their children. If you are at all interested in volunteering at the school, you should plan to attend the next meeting, if possible, or contact the district office.