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Academic Rigor and Support Self-Assessment
Provide Supports to Ensure Student Academic Success

Characteristics of Schools With Academic Rigor and Support

Important to Our School

Exists at Our School

Difference

Provide supports to ensure student academic success

A welcoming, caring, and positive school atmosphere

School staff that gets to know students personally

Attention to student views

Mechanisms to ascertain student needs and track student progress

Individual student learning plans

Student advisories

Point-of-entry testing prior to or at the beginning of high school for all students to facilitate four-year planning that includes both academic and interest assessments

Means to identify struggling students who are in need of extra academic support

Multiple mechanisms to provide struggling students with extra academic support

Teacher availability before and after school or during lunch hours to coach and support students

Linkages with outside groups to provide students with academic support

9th grade academy or other setting to enroll students at risk of failure who need extra support

Special classes for English language learners

Additional resources for students who are challenged by academically rigorous work

Saturday school

Catch-up classes

Small classes