3. PURPOSE OF GPS... GUIDED
PROGRAM TO SUCCESS
GPS is the Organizational Model developed by the SCHS
School Improvement Committee for the purpose of bringing
improvement to Sugar Creek High School
GPS is a model designed to help SCHS attain Excellence in
Education for all students
The aim of the GPS paradigm model is to raise the standards
at SCHS to the highest possible excellence in
literacy, numeracy, and will address the needs of the whole child
The GPS model will close all identified gaps
5. URGENCY
“THE PLACE WHERE AWARENESS IS BORN”
Driving Tips-Accountability
School history and where are our Students Now?
Data to identify the needs.
Where do they need to be?
Identify most critical needs.
6. SCHOOL HISTORY AND WHERE
ARE THE STUDENTS NOW?
HISTORY... (Fifty years... from farms to failure)
I. Agricultural (farms, ranches, agrarian based living)
II. Suburbia (single family dwelling, mom, dad, and 2.7
children all with light complexions, Leave it to Beaver days)
III. Apartment Boom (huge change in demographics, not so
white anymore)
IV. Inner-City (inner-city problems, low income, diverse
racial demographic makeup, lower standardized test scores)
7. DATA TO IDENTIFY THE NEEDS.
STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
Total student population 2024)
Subpopulation Asian Black Hispanic White Econ Disadv LEP
Percentage 9.7% 8.8% 58.9% 22.5% 48% 24%
TEACHER, COUNSELOR, AND ADMINISTRATION
DEMOGRAPHICS
White Black Hispanic Asian
Teachers (120) 113 6 0 1
Counselors (4) 4 0 0 0
Administrators (4) 3 1 0 0
8. DATA TO IDENTIFY THE NEEDS
(CONTINUED).
PERFORMANCE COMPARRISONS
TAKS Exit-Level Test SAT Average
White 81% 973
Hispanic 41% 838
9. WHERE DO THE STUDENTS
NEED TO BE?
School Motto
“Dedicated to Excellence in
Education!”
10. IDENTIFY MOST CRITICAL NEEDS.
In the old days the school was very successful
academically… As of late, not so successful especially in the
subpops
Huge change in demographics over the past fifty years
Huge performance gap between subpops (TAKS scores and
SAT scores)
Community concerns about lack of leadership and a lack of
discipline at the high school
Musical chairs game with reassignments of administrators in
various schools of the district and the high school
11. IDENTIFY MOST CRITICAL NEEDS
(CONTINUED).
Dissension among staff members and especially a big lack
of support by the teaching staff for the ESL Program
The demographic composition of the teaching staff,
counselors, and administration not reflective of the
demographic composition of the student population
Not many long tenured teaching staff
13. UNITY
“THE PLACE WHERE WE ALL FIND THE COMMON GOAL”
Driving Tips-Openness
Making the plan.
Identify needs.
Assign specific goals and objectives.
15. STRATEGIES, PROGRAMS AND
INTERVENTIONS
Cultural Awareness Program
PLC Development
Curriculum / CSCOPE
RtI Team
Professional Development for teachers
Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Team and the Campus
Improvement Plan (CIP)
Etc…
17. FOCUS AND CHECK
Ongoing and continual GPS program assessment and
evaluation
STAAR Benchmark tests (Spring and Fall)
Analysis of benchmark performance with and analysis tool
such as DMAC
Analysis of the performance of student on the previous
year’s standardized tests (TAKS or STAAR)
Trend data analysis
Climate surveys (Students, faculty, and parents)
21. LEVEL OF SUCCESS
OF THE GPS MODEL
Guided Program Success (GPS) Committee meet to review
all relevant data
GPS Committee to determine the level of success of the
GPS model
GPS Committee to report their program determinations to
the Site-Based Decision Making Committee (SBDM)
SBDM Committee to integrate GPS program updates and
changes into the following year’s Campus Improvement Plan
