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This article is the third in a series focused on multi-year academic performance of all schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), categorized according to supervision by the pertinent associate superintendent.  This article follows up on schools under the supervision of Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach.  The previous article focused on conventional high schools;  this entry focuses on conventional middle schools.

 

Remember that MPS associate superintendents such as Steinbach serve as mentors to site principals and along with those leaders at the school level have responsibility for academic results at the schools under their supervision.  Over the last half decade the number of associate superintendents has gone from eight, to six, to four, and now to three.  During the 2017-2018 academic year the associate superintendents included Laura Cavender, Lucilla Davila, Carla Steinbach, and Ron Wagner;  for the current academic year of 2018-2019, Cavender has been reassigned as principal of Bryn Mawr K-5 elementary school and Davis has been reassigned as principal of Folwell K-8 elementary school.   Steinbach and Wagner remain as associate superintendents, the former with responsibility for all middle schools and high schools, the latter with responsibility for approximately half of all MPS K-5 and K-8 elementary schools;  Brian Zambreno came to the district from Richfield and has responsibility for the remainder of the K-5 and K-8 schools.  Articles soon to come focus on academic performance of schools under the supervision of Wagner and Zambreno.

 

The following tabular presentation gives multi-year academic results for the seven conventional middle schools under the supervision of Carla Steinbach.   These middle schools include Anwatin Middle School, Anwatin Spanish Dual Immersion Middle School, Franklin Middle School, Justin Page Middle School, Northeast Middle School, Olson Middle School, and Sanford Middle School. 

 

Steinbach was the building principal for Edison High School during the academic years ending in 2014 and 2015. She had all of the schools listed below under her supervision as associate superintendent during academic year 2017-2018;  thus she should be held fully responsible for the academic results, along with the building principals whom she mentors.

 

Consider:

 

Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach, Multi-Year Academic Performance for Conventiolnal High Schools Supervised

 

Percentage of Students Proficient at Grade Level as Indicated by Performance on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 

Anwatin Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           61%     61%      60%       60%        60%

 

Reading      63%     61%      64%       61%        65%

 

Science        60%    56%      54%      49%       50%

 

Anwatin Communications and Spanish Dual Immersion School

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           32%     33%      24%       26%        32%

 

Reading      28%     27%      24%       28%         30%

 

Science        12%    13%      14%        14%         6%

 

Franklin Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math          -----      -----        8%         9%         10%

 

Reading     -----     -----       16%       19%         17%

 

Science      -----     -----          3%      -----            4%

 

Justice Page Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           63%     67%       57%     58%       60%

 

Reading      63%     65%       55%     62%       61%

 

Science        -----     58%       47%     62%       47%

 

Northeast Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           28%     27%      30%       21%        21%

 

Reading      29%     30%      30%       25%        30%

 

Science       13%    25%      23%      18%       17%

 

Olson Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           14%      13%       11%    11%       11%

 

Reading      19%     21%        24%    24%       26%

 

Science        12%       5%          4%       2%        6%

 

Sanford Middle School

 

    2014    2015      2016      2017       2018

 

Math           38%     42%      44%       39%        39%

 

Reading      45%     49%      50%       49%        50%

 

Science       34%    39%      37%      37%       31%