News From LCHS 2/22/25

by fvillarreal · February 22, 2025

Dear LCHS Families,

We hope you and your family are doing well. We had an excellent week here at LCHS. Classrooms have had thoughtful instruction, engaging discussions, and dynamic activities. Every day we continue building toward a stronger future to ensure that our students are set up for success when they leave us.

Exciting milestones are ahead for our graduating class as they approach June. From scholarship applications to job interviews and college acceptances, they continue to show resilience and make us proud. We look forward to celebrating them in the months to come.

We have also wrapped up our mid-year assessments and have some highlights to share! You will see our grade bands below with our growth and achievement data. We know that we continue to have work to do and there are some highlights to recognize as well.

Here are a couple of helpful definitions to understand the data:

Growth is an inference about how student performance changes across two moments in time. You can use growth percentiles to understand how changes in student scores compare to changes in other US student scores.

Achievement comparisons represent student performance at two different moments in time. You can use achievement comparisons to understand how a group of student scores has changed across two testing terms.

Definitions

Percentile. Norm-based information about where a student’s observed score falls within the range of scores produced by other same-grade US students.

Median percentile. The middle percentile value when a group of percentiles are ordered from lowest to highest.

Distribution. A representation of the range of scores for a group of students, indicating the number and/or percentages of scores within five percentile levels, or quintiles.

Quintiles. Five percentile levels based on NWEA normative data: 1st–20th (red), 21st–40th (orange), 41st–60th (yellow), 61st–80th (green), and greater than 80th (blue).

The median percentile is represented first, followed by the distribution of student scores across quintiles.

7/8 Data

Celebrations

8th Grade ELA: 64th Percentile Growth

8th Grade Math: 56th Percentile Growth

9/10 Data

Celebrations

9th Grade Math: 72nd Percentile Growth

10th Grade ELA: 65th Percentile Growth

We will explain more of this data at our upcoming parent teacher conferences which are scheduled for March 26th and 27th. More information to come!

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend,

Scott Carroll
Principal
Lake County High School

Athletics

Sports Report: Congratulations to the following athletes who are representing LCHS at the State Alpine meet this week in Aspen- Emily Charles, Helen Fiedler, Finnley Stanek, Chloe King, Jake Cairns, Wilson Anderson and Itai Sheleg!

Due to a last minute reschedule, we played high school basketball games in front of the student body on Tuesday. With great fan support, both the boys and girls teams were victorious against Crested Butte!

Update on spring sports start dates: HS track & field will begin practice on Monday, February 24: 4-5:30 pm at the LCIS gym. HS girls’ soccer starts on Tuesday, February 25: 6-8 pm at the LCIS gym, and MS girls’ soccer on Monday, March 3: 4-5:30 pm at the LCHS gym. (Athletes in a winter sport should finish that sport and then begin spring sport practices.) Competition schedules are on our online calendar: https://chsaa.rschooltoday.com/public/genie/1518/school/445/date/2025-02-17/view/week/

LET’S GO PANTHERS!!

Immunization Letter

Please Read and review the mandatory immunization letter here

Butter Braids

Lake County HS Choir and Band are Selling Butter Braids!

https://store.myfundraisingplace.com/e94caecd-cb8b-4e23-a6ba-b157fe761bfa

Funds go toward our annual Elitch Garden’s music festival and program costs.

If you would like to support the students, consider buying a butter braid or two!

Reach out to ccairns@lakecountyschools.net if you have further questions.

FASFA/CAFSA Workshop

Free FAFSA/CAFSA Workshop Wednesday, February 26 at LCHS. See attached documents for more information.

Recommended for students and parents to create their login ahead of time.

FAFSA: Students and their contributors can create a StudentAid.Gov (FSA ID) prior to completing the form. This is highly encouraged as it can take 1-3 days to verify their account information. We also encourage students to use the Who’s My FAFSA Parent? wizard to identify which parent(s) will be a required contributor to their form.
CASFA: Students can sign up for an account ahead of time; however, parents can’t create an account until they are invited to the form by the student.

What to bring with you: