Here are some Bancroft-Rosalie School statistics that I shared at the Rosalie and Bancroft alumni banquets this past weekend.
The last student day was this past Thursday. Our high school students received 1237 hours of instruction this year. The state average is 1150 hours and the minimum number is 1080. Our teachers are working hard as we try to maximize academic learning time.
Demographics.
The Bancroft-Rosalie School K-12 enrollment is 273 students. The pre-school has 31. The largest class is the 10th grade (32) and the smallest are the freshmen (16). There were 23 graduates this year and 22 of them are planning on attending college. Next year, the kindergarten will have 22 students. The enrollment has been consistent. Sixty-two of the students are minorities and 65 option enrollment into the district. Forty-one percent of the students are on free or reduced lunches.
Curriculum change
This was the first year of the Health Science curriculum. The three course sequence was 1) Health Science, 2) Medical Terminology, and 3) Certified Nurse’s Assistant. We hope to add an EMT class in the future. Three students completed the CNA class, all three passed the state test and have been offered summer employment.
Activities
The Powerdrive team won state championships in both the standard and advanced classes. The school added softball this year (co-oping with Wisner-Pilger) and baseball (co-oping with Pender). We were Class C for the first and only time, and teams qualified for state in Football and Volleyball. Two students placed at the state track meet.
New for next year
All 9-12 students will be provided MacBooks. Grades 7-8 will have access to netbooks.
A wind turbine will be installed this summer for use by the science classes as part of the Wind For Schools Program.
Wayne State College donated a T-Shirt machine to Bancroft-Rosalie. The machine will be used as part of the Entrepreneurship class.
School Foundation
The Foundation has $40,586. This past year over $11,000 was raised to purchase record boards for Bancroft-Rosalie School athletic records.
