Jones County School District

This Dropout Prevention Plan for Jones County Schools outlines a strategic approach to reduce dropout rates and improve student outcomes. Key strategic goals include ensuring safe and orderly environments, enhancing positive student experiences, improving academic achievement, maintaining fiscal responsibility, promoting technological advancement, and strengthening community partnerships. Specific dropout prevention initiatives focus on reducing K-2 retention rates, providing targeted assistance to student subgroups to meet graduation requirements, developing recovery programs for students aged 17-21 who have dropped out, and facilitating effective transitions for students returning from juvenile detention centers.

This document presents the Dropout Prevention Plan and Strategic Plan for the Jones County School District. It outlines a vision to be a top-rated, student-centered community of learning excellence, with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower all students to be college and career ready. Key strategic goals include ensuring safe and orderly environments, increasing positive school experiences, improving student achievement and progress, maintaining financial stability, promoting sustainable growth in technology, and strengthening collaboration with stakeholders. Specific dropout prevention initiatives focus on reducing K-2 retention rates, targeting subgroups for graduation assistance, implementing dropout recovery for students aged 17-21, and facilitating transitions from juvenile detention centers.

This document outlines additional options for students to meet high school end-of-course (EOC) assessment requirements for graduation, particularly for those who have failed an EOC assessment. It details alternative measures such as achieving specific scores on standardized tests (ACT, ASVAB, ACT WorkKeys), obtaining industry certifications, and utilizing a universal concordance table or a composite score calculation. The plan also introduces the 'Bridge-to-Career Course,' effective 2025-2026, as a last-resort graduation option for eligible students, focusing on portfolio development, exhibits, and targeted remediation to demonstrate academic and career readiness.

This Instructional Management Plan for the Jones County School District aims to improve student achievement through a rigorous and relevant curriculum, systematically implementing College and Career Readiness Standards, and promoting continuous academic growth. The plan outlines strategic goals focused on safe schools, positive student experiences, improved graduation rates, fiscal operations, technology advancement, and strong parent-community relations. It details instructional strategies, assessment methods, a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), and emphasizes professional learning and stakeholder responsibilities.

The Jones County School District's 2018-2023 Strategic Plan focuses on six key goals: ensuring a safe and orderly environment; improving student achievement through a rigorous curriculum; reducing dropout rates and improving graduation rates; strengthening collaboration with parents and the community; systematically replacing and updating technology; and enhancing financial operations. The plan outlines specific objectives and action items within each goal, addressing areas such as school safety and security, curriculum implementation, data-driven instruction, student attendance, parent engagement, technology upgrades, and budget management. Targeted outcomes include improved student safety, increased graduation rates, enhanced parent and community involvement, improved technology infrastructure, and responsible financial management. The plan emphasizes a data-driven approach to decision-making and continuous improvement.