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Funding Summary 2024-2025

School Plan 2024-2025 - Orion Jr High

Goal #1
State Goal

Ensuring students' academic success by providing engaging and relevant experiences through the implementation of high-quality instructional and learning opportunities for all students. Increase the percentage of students who obtain proficiency on Rise/ Aspire testing results by 1% and reduce the number of students with failing grades by 5% school-wide during the 2024-2025 school year.

 

Academic Area
  • English/Language Arts
  • Mathematics
  • Science
 
Measurements

Data collection and analysis of student digital portfolios, RISE/ Aspire summative testing during the 2024-2025 school year to track academic progress. Increase the percentage of students who obtain proficiency on Rise/ Aspire testing results by 1% and reduce the total number of failing grades by 5% during the 2024-2025 school year.

 
Action Steps
  • One Student Advocates will be hired to support students academically, socially, and emotionally and help them create a plan for success.   ($42,530)

  • Funding a school Website Committee that will add and maintain content/links to our website, with relevant and timely resources specifically for improving instruction and student learning ($2000). 

  • Provide students with extra support, mentoring, and tutoring by teachers before and after school ($5,000).

  • One English buyout to reduce class sizes ($12,000) 

  • One science buyout to reduce class sizes ($12,000)

 
Planned Expenditures
CategoryDescriptionEstimated Cost
 Total:$73,530.00
Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes)

One Student Advocate will be hired to support students academically, socially, and emotionally and help them create a plan for success. ($42,530) Funding a school Website Committee that will add and maintain content/links to our website, with relevant and timely resources specifically for improving instruction and student learning ($2000). Provide students with extra support, mentoring, and tutoring by teachers before and after school ($5,000). One Buyout for English teachers to reduce class sizes ($12,000) One buyout for science teacher to reduce class sizes ($12,000)

$73,530.00
 
Digital Citizenship/Safety Principles Component

No

 
 
Goal #2
State Goal

Create a school-wide system of learning and growth, by creating a comprehensive, consistent, responsive, engaging, and empowering learning environment for all students. This will be accomplished by delivering high-quality instruction through leadership, modeling, advocacy, technology, and collaboration (PLC's). Using specific data from the Utah Aspire Plus and RISE assessments with a focus on increasing student proficiency by 1% in English language arts, math, and science and reducing the total number of failing grades by 5% school-wide during the 2024-2025 school year.

 
Academic Area
  • English/Language Arts
  • Mathematics
  • Science
 
Measurements

We will use end-of-level RISE/Utah Aspire Plus scores and school pass/fail data to measure and track progress towards an increase in the percentage of students who obtain proficiency on Rise/ Aspire testing results by 1%. We will collect monthly Collaborative Team agendas to show departmental progress as well as evidence of collaboration and growth. Teachers will present new information and strategies learned through conferences and collaboration in Collaborative Team Meetings and incorporate those strategies into current practices, lesson plans, assessments, and engagement activities.

 
Action Steps
  1. Improve reading comprehension by getting more books into the hands of students through increased printed copies of books, online and mobile devices for additional library books) and provide a new reading curriculum for English Classrooms that align with the core standards. ($4,000)
  2. ALEKs licenses will be purchased ($14,000) to help fill in the learning gaps of students who need additional support in math as well as supplement daily instruction. Data will be kept on ALEKs to see improvement in math benchmark and RISE scores.
  3. We want to continue being a One to One Chromebook school providing every student with a device. This will continue to improve proficiency in English, math, and science by providing access to resources, information, and curriculum to all students.  ($38,000)
  4. One to One technology supplies and replacement for the continual support and replacement/repair of Chromebooks ($5,000).
  5. We will use Land Trust money to pay for substitutes for every department to have 2 days (1 day at the beginning of each semester) to collaborate, revisit essential standards, and success criteria, and revise common formative assessments as a department without distractions or interruptions ($6,000). 
  6. We will also pay for teachers to attend PLC conferences, content-specific conferences, workshops, and training.  ($10,000).

 

 
Planned Expenditures
CategoryDescriptionEstimated Cost
 Total:$77,000.00
Books, Ebooks, online curriculum/subscriptions

Step 1. Improve reading comprehension by getting more books into the hands of students through increased printed copies of books, online and mobile devices for additional library books) and provide a new reading curriculum for English Classrooms that align with the core standards. ($4,000)

$4,000.00
Hardware > $5,000 and furniture to house trust purchases; book cases, carts for devices

Step 3 We want to continue being a One to One Chromebook school providing every student with a device. This will continue to improve proficiency in reading, writing, and math by providing access to resources, information, and curriculum to all students. These devices also increase student use of technology, improve, and increase practice/preparation for benchmark and end-of-level tests. ($38,000) Step 4 One to One technology supplies and replacement for the continual support and replacement/repair of Chromebooks ($5,000).

$43,000.00
Software < $5,000

Step 2 ALEKs licenses will be purchased to help fill in the learning gaps of students who need additional support in math as well as supplement daily instruction. Data will be kept on ALEKs to see improvement in math benchmark and RISE scores.($14,000)

$14,000.00
Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes)

Step 5 We will use Land Trust money to pay for substitutes for every department to have 2 days (1 day at the beginning of each semester) to collaborate, revisit essential standards, and success criteria, and revise common formative assessments as a department without distractions or interruptions ($6,000).

$6,000.00
Contracted Services (counseling, library and media support, employee training including professional development not requiring an overnight stay)

Step 6 We will also pay for teachers to attend PLC conferences, content-specific conferences, workshops, and training. ($10,000).

$10,000.00
 
Digital Citizenship/Safety Principles Component

No

 
 

Summary of Estimated Expenditures

CategoryEstimated Cost
(entered by the school)
Total:$150,530.00
Hardware > $5,000 and furniture to house trust purchases; book cases, carts for devices $43,000.00
Software < $5,000 $14,000.00
Contracted Services (counseling, library and media support, employee training including professional development not requiring an overnight stay) $10,000.00
Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes) $79,530.00
Books, Ebooks, online curriculum/subscriptions $4,000.00

Funding Estimates

EstimatesTotals
Carry-over from 2022-2023 $9,613.07
Distribution for 2023-2024 $151,633.28
Total Available Funds for 2023-2024 $161,246.35
Estimated Funds to be Spent in 2023-2024 $150,530.00
Estimated Carry-over from 2023-2024
Estimated Distribution for 2024-2025 $145,046.80
Total Available Funds for 2024-2025 $154,659.87
Summary of Estimated Expenditures for 2024-2025 $150,530.00

The Estimated Distribution is subject to change if student enrollment counts change.

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