South Middle School
Title I Information
Quick Message from the Title I Coordinator
Greetings Families,
My name is Theresa Ostgarden, Title I Coordinator for South Middle School. We would like to share Title I information with our families. Below you will find attached information and the written notification of our school accountability.
Written Notification of School Accountability Report
North Dakota has launched a dashboard called “Insights,” designed to help communities across the state access important information about K-12 districts and schools. Insights feature easy-to-read reports on multiple measures of school success, including:
Student Achievement
Choice Ready Results
Performance Comparisons
English Learner Progress
Graduation Rates
School and State Accountability Results
School Improvement Information
Post-Secondary Education
School Environment
Transparency to the Public
North Dakota is committed to informing communities about how well our schools are doing. North Dakota’s future success depends on tapping into the potential of all students, so they graduate Choice Ready with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to be successful.
State education departments are required to annually create an accountability report for every public school in the state per the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The school accountability reports outline how schools perform on the accountability elements North Dakota selected within its ESSA plan.
How is our School Doing?
To find more information about our School Accountability Report, visit the dashboard at Insights.nd.gov, select “Find My School,” and search alphabetically. The school accountability report is posted under the Dashboard heading. Please note that the data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with ten or fewer students to protect confidential information about individual students. Therefore, if data is unavailable to less than ten students, it will say “no data available.”
Family Engagement
We have strong plans for working to improve the educational programs at our school. We want you and your child(ren) to continue actively participating in our educational system. Please help
support our high expectations for student achievement by participating in the school's educational initiatives, offering input and support in our endeavors to raise student achievement, or volunteering at the school. Meeting our school’s goals will take a united effort, and we look forward to working with our families to ensure success for each student.
Continuous Improvement
All schools engage in continuous improvement for general support; therefore, our school has
completed a continuous improvement plan through Cognia. As part of the overall school improvement plan, a strategy map is generated for each school. Our strategy map, outlining our key school improvement initiatives, is also available on Insights. South Middle School is a participating Title I school, with a student membership count of 554 students.
Parents Right to Know Clause
ESEA Section 1112 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires schools receiving Title I funds to notify all parents that they have the right to request information regarding the professional qualifications of instructional staff including teachers and paraprofessionals at the school. The information must include state-level qualifications, licensing criteria for grade levels and subject areas, teaching under an emergency or other provisional status, and teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher. If you would like to see the qualifications, stop by the school office or call 746-2345. Also, the law requires districts to provide parents, on request and in a timely manner, with information regarding state or local policy, procedures, and parental rights regarding student participation in mandated assessments.
Extra Information
The following documents are required by law to be shared with our families. Please take a moment to look through them:
2024-2025 School-Parent Compact
2024-2025 Parent Engagement Policy
Grand Forks Title Information
The Grand Forks Public School District is asking for families to review the following presentation that gives an overview of all Title funding. Please review the presentation below and give feedback with the survey on how the district should focus our funds.
2024-2025 District Parent Meeting: Federal Title Funding Presentation
Survey of the Grand Forks Public Schools Needs Assessment 2024-2025