Siebert Receives Blue Ribbon Award      

Congratulations to Siebert Elementary School for their U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award for the No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Program!  To help reward successful schools, the U.S. Department of Education established this prestigious award to honor elementary and secondary schools in the United States that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap or whose students achieve at the highest levels.  The program recognizes and presents as models both public and private elementary and secondary schools that meet either of two assessment criteria.

First, it recognizes schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds and have dramatically improved student performance to high levels in reading (language arts or English) and mathematics on state assessments or assessments referenced against national norms in at least the highest grade tested.  Second, it recognizes schools, regardless of their demographics, that are in the top 10 percent of schools as measured by state tests in both reading (language arts or English) and mathematics or that score in the top 10 percent on assessments referenced against national norms at a particular grade in at least the highest grade tested.  Siebert Elementary qualifies for the first assessment criteria.

Congratulations to all the students for this remarkable achievement, and to all the teachers who work hard to help these outstanding kids make every goal possible!