Although the school was able to have in-person classes for most of the 2020-21 school year, Owens said teachers and students still had to regularly deal with distance-learning challenges thanks to individual students needing to quarantine.
While she is proud of her students’ test scores, she said she was even more impressed with the resiliency they have shown during the course of the pandemic.
“Honestly, this last year feels like the resiliency of my staff and students has continued to shine as they keep rising above the circumstances brought on by COVID-19,” Owens said.
As was the case across Oklahoma, multiple suburban districts had at least one campus with a participation rate below 95% percent, the benchmark normally required statewide by the U.S. Department of Education to guarantee that the results provide a full representation of student performance.
Catoosa, Chelsea, Coweta, Kellyville, Kiefer, Sapulpa and Sand Springs each had one campus fall below the 95% testing threshold, while Claremore, Claremore Sequoyah, Mannford and Owasso each had two campuses with less than 95% participation, State Department of Education data show.
Broken Arrow and Union each had three campuses with testing participation rates below 95%.
Bixby Public Schools had three campuses with testing participation rates below 80%: East Elementary, East Intermediate and Bixby Middle School.