The Capitol Region Education Council’s Montessori Magnet School has been cited as a national success story by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).
The “AASA Connect” homepage profiles the school’s dramatic gains in student achievement between 2009 and 2011, CREC says.
According to CREC, Montessori Magnet is the first Connecticut school to be featured as an AASA success story. Â The school’s pupils are age 3 to 12.
The story describes the challenges that the CREC Montessori Magnet School overcame starting in 2008-2009 when they were identified as a “School in Need of Improvement”. The newly hired principal, Melissa Gagne, made immediate, strategic, and dramatic changes in staffing, planning, curriculum, and culture and the results were remarkable.
Last year, the CREC Montessori Magnet School achieved double-digit gains in mathematics achievement at both the goal level (12.7 percentage point gains) and proficient level (13.5 percentage point gains). In addition, more than 90 percent of students met or exceeded the state’s proficiency standard in reading, and performed at goal.
The school expects to see the same or better results this year.
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