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Washington Achievement Award
The Washington Achievement Award:
- Is awarded collaboratively with the State Board of Education (SBE) and based on the Washington Achievement Index.
- Celebrates schools for overall excellence and special recognition in: language arts, math, science, graduation rate, improvement and closing achievement gaps.
- Honors schools at an annual ceremony hosted by the SBE and OSPI.
Schools are selected based on their statewide assessment data for the three previous years. This data is analyzed using the Achievement Index and methodology approved by both OSPI and the SBE.
Just as students in a classroom must excel in multiple subjects to become truly accomplished, schools must achieve success on many different levels, in different subject areas and with different populations. The Washington Achievement Awards celebrate each of those victories with our schools.
Both the State Board of Education and Superintendent Dorn recognize the incredible effort educators, administrators and families are putting into making our schools the very best they can be. They also know that schools need a reliable and fair tool to help make sense of assessment data and align those data with state and national priorities. By lifting up our most successful schools the Washington Achievement Award shines a light on some of the best practices that are making that success possible.
Not every school that is working hard will be recognized every year, but all schools can use the Achievement Index to give them an accurate and thorough picture of where they fall on the spectrum of achievement and help them network with schools that are successful.
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