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Dear Editor:
As Hamilton Southeastern Schools students and families prepare for a new school year this week, Fishers One challenges the HSE school board to reprioritize its agenda and take practical steps toward improving academic performance across all HSE Schools.
The precipitous HSE Schools decline over the last decade has only been accelerated by school closures and disruptions the last two years. As Fishers One has highlighted, according to recently released ILEARN data:
- More than 50 percent of HSE eighth graders are below an eighth-grade proficiency in Math
- Nearly 40 percent of HSE eighth graders are below an eighth-grade proficiency in English/ Language Arts.
Additionally, according to recent data released by US News & World Report, HSE Schools does not have a single elementary school ranked in the top 100 academically in the state of Indiana. For comparison, nearby Brownsburg Schools has five in the top 20.
We are calling on the HSE school board to take meaningful steps toward academic improvement in this new school year and to prioritize learning recovery for all students above everything else.
Fishers One is a grassroots, community based organization dedicated to restoring academic excellence in our schools, maintaining Fishers as a great place to live, and cultivating the next generations of community leaders. You can learn more about Fishers One and how to get involved at fishersone.org and our Facebook page at facebook.com/fishersone.
Fishers One