Schools receive highest award

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Schools receive highest award

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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 00:00

Twenty-six Osceola County schools have been designated as Five Star Schools, earning the Florida Department of Education’s most prestigious award for community involvement – the 2009-10 Five Star School Award. This is the largest group of Osceola County schools ever to earn Five Star School awards.
The award is presented each year to schools that have shown evidence of exemplary family, school and community involvement. To qualify, each school must meet 100 percent of the state’s established criteria that require the full engagement of business partners, volunteers, students, families and the School Advisory Council in the educational process. Every Five Star School must prepare a portfolio to document how they model excellence through specific community involvement programs.
Osceola’s Five Star schools:
Boggy Creek Elementary, Celebration K-8, Chestnut Elementary, Cypress Elementary, Discovery Intermediate, Highlands Elementary, Horizon Middle, Kissimmee Charter Academy, Kissimmee Elementary, KOA Elementary, Lakeview Elementary, Michigan Avenue Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, Narcoossee Elementary, Narcoossee Middle, Neptune Elementary, Neptune Middle, Osceola County School for the Arts, Osceola High, Partin Settlement Elementary, Pleasant Hill Elementary, Reedy Creek Elementary, St. Cloud Elementary, Sunrise Elementary, Thacker Avenue Elementary for International Studies and Ventura Elementary.
“I am extremely proud of these schools for making volunteerism and community involvement a priority,” Superintendent Michael A. Grego said. “When children, parents, educators and the community work together as a team, our students succeed and reap great rewards.”
Principals and the school volunteer coordinators will receive their Five Star plaques at a School Board meeting Oct. 5 at 5:45 p.m.
The Osceola County School District is looking forward to another school year where OASIS volunteers make a difference in the success of students. Osceola County schools are now in need of tutors and mentors for students, classroom volunteers, clerical volunteers, media center volunteers, speakers, judges, Business Partners in Education and more. Schools are happy to work with volunteers to find out the areas where they will be most effective and feel the most comfortable.
Interested individuals can log on to https://volunteer.osceola .k12.fl.us to register as a new school volunteer or to renew their application as a volunteer from last school year. For more information, call 407-870-4080.