Lowndes County School District

This plan outlines the Lowndes County School District's policies and educational practices for English Language Learners (ELs). Its core goals are to enhance English language proficiency, increase academic achievement in regular classrooms, and improve EL students' performance on state assessments. The plan emphasizes providing ELs with the necessary knowledge, skills, and values for success, utilizing a Pull-Out ESL model and Structured English Immersion. Key strategies include individual Language Service Plans, a Multi-Tiered System of Supports, appropriate grading and assessment adaptations, and a strong focus on parent and family engagement. Program effectiveness is continuously evaluated through various data points to ensure EL students attain English fluency and full access to grade-level content.

This Dropout Prevention Plan for the Lowndes County School District details strategies and initiatives for the 2024-2025 school year. It is designed to meet state goals by reducing student retention rates, targeting at-risk subgroups, promoting academic success, implementing recovery initiatives for students aged seventeen to twenty-one, and ensuring smooth transitions from juvenile detention centers. The plan establishes both short-term and long-term objectives to improve graduation rates, decrease dropout and truancy rates, enhance academic performance, and increase parental involvement.

This document outlines the Lowndes County School District's local Dropout Prevention Plan, developed to meet the overarching goals of the state dropout prevention plan. The plan focuses on key strategies including reducing retention rates, targeting subgroups to meet graduation requirements, fostering academic success, implementing dropout recovery initiatives, and facilitating transitions for students from juvenile detention centers. The strategic objectives aim to increase the graduation rate, decrease the dropout rate, and reduce the truancy rate across the district.

The Lowndes County School District's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan focuses on improving student achievement, utilizing technology for college and career readiness, promoting engaged learning environments, fostering stakeholder engagement, developing a data-driven workforce, and ensuring all schools achieve a C rating or higher. The plan outlines strategies for differentiated instruction, inclusive organizational culture, teacher coaching and professional development, technology integration, alignment with state standards, data-driven decision-making, facility maintenance, and enhanced literacy instruction. Measurable outcomes include standardized test results, graduation and dropout rates, attendance, discipline referrals, event attendance, assessment data, dual enrollment participation, professional growth outcomes, employee turnover, and MTSS data.