Harrison Preparatory

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Our Vision & Mission

Students at Harrison Prep will graduate as caring, curious, confident, and college-ready young people who have respect for multiple cultures and perspectives.

Teachers at HP will design standards-based challenging learning experiences enriched through technology, community partnerships and personal projects.

Staff at HP will foster meaningful and personalized relationships preparing students for global citizenship.

Washington Report Cards Available

Washington State report cards provide school data at the state, school district and school building level. The report cards may be downloaded from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction website here or by contacting the school at the number listed above.

Parent Survey

A summary of our school's overall results from the Center for Educational Effectiveness's (CEE) 2017 parent survey can be found here. For complete results of the CEE parent survey, please contact the main office.

District Mission

The mission of Clover Park School District is to teach each child what he or she needs to know to succeed and contribute to the community.

Harrison

Preparatory School

2016-17

Kevin Rupprecht,

Principal

8800 121st St SW, Lakewood WA 98498 • 253-583-5340 Fax: 253-583-5417

Student, Parent and Community Involvement

STUDENTS:

Students were intricately involved in building and preserving a positive school culture and climate. Student contributions included:

  • Planning recognition programs and assemblies to honor and celebrate students, staff and significant events and holidays that were fun, fair and inclusive of all students.
  • Students selected and promoted the annual theme titled, “The Happiest School on Earth” to increase school pride for all stake-holders.
  • Harrison Prep students took advantage of opportunities to give on-going service to local and global communities including representing student voices on the Lakewood Youth Council and serving as peer mentors to Idlewild Primary Years Program 5th graders.

PARENTS:

Families and schools partnered to provide:

  1. A PTO that included monthly meetings, a social media presence and in Spring 2017 the first Coffee with the Principal meetings.
  2. Departmental-focused family nights where teachers, students and families participated together.
  3. Ongoing support at school events and opportunities for families, teachers and students to interact.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Our Associated Study Body (ASB) through clubs like leadership, Key Club, National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society, partnered with local and global organizations to support student-driven initiatives.

  1. Harrison Prep students donated more than 650 canned food items and dry goods to FISH Food Bank in Lakewood during the WE Scare Hunger campaign in October 2016.
  2. Students collected more than $150 in loose change during the first WE Create Change campaign for the year, which was donated towards the junior/senior class adopted pillar of sustainability: clean water. The money went towards digging wells for fresh water in rural China.
  3. In December, Harrison Prep student clubs hosted a Week of Serviceincludeing donation drives for toys and teddy bears for children at Mary Bridge Hospital. High school leadership organized a blood drive with Bloodworks Northwest, donating 24 pints of blood and signing up many new donors.
  4. For Valentine’s Day, high school leadership sponsored the campaign WE Are Rafikis, selling rafiki bracelets and necklaces made by women in Kenya to support alternate income overseas.
  5. In June, National Honor Society participated in Relay for Life, raising money for cancer research.

CELEBRATIONS

Harrison Prep completed two external review processes in 2016-17. The first was the AdvancEd accreditation followed by the five-year evaluation of Harrison Prep’s IB Middle Years Programme (MYP).

In 2016-17, Harrison Prep had multiple winners at the South Sound Regional Science Fair and two first-place finishers at the Washington state science fair, a ninth-grader who served as a legislative page, and a student selected to attend Camp Neuro at the University of Washington.

Harrison Prep completed its first examination session marking the end of the first two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (DP) cohort. Thirty seniors took multiple exams in subject areas including literature, chemistry, mathematics, history, environmental sciences and Spanish. In addition to the formal exams, students submitted work to meet the DP requirements for arts, written assignments, the extended essay and additional hours for completion of creativity, activity, and service requirements.

Harrison Prep received a Washington Achievement Award for high progress; was recognized as a School of Distinction by the Center for Educational Effectiveness for the second, consecutive year; and was the first school in the district to earn Washington Green Schools – Bronze Certification.

Graduating seniors were accepted to colleges and universities of their choice and scholarship offerings remained high with a total of over $1.4 million for the 2017 graduating class.

School Improvement Plan

The Harrison Prep School Improvement Plan focused on five main goals:

  1. Goals 1, 2 and 3: Math, Literacy and Science: All district and school staff will ensure that 85% of our students will meet or exceed grade-level and disparities among all sub-groups will be eliminated as measured by state, district and classroom assessments.
  2. Goal 4 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES: As a result of professional practices, and intentional instructional strategies all students will grow academically a minimum of one year and students below grade level will grow academically a minimum of 1.5 years; and the district graduation rate will reach 85% or greater in June 2018.
  3. Goal 5: SCHOOL SPECIFIC GOAL: Harrison Prep will renew AdvancEd accreditation and complete the first five-year evaluation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP).

Facility Use

Harrison Preparatory was used each day for school-day instruction and after school extended learning and extracurricular offerings. Harrison Prep hosted the first musical drama performance on the stage as well as multiple choral music performances. A variety of districtwide professional development opportunities took place at Harrison Prep including hosting National Boards cohorts and guest teacher training. Additional events took place at Harrison, taking advantage of the state of the art technology events included the CPSD STEM Fair and weekly services of Lakewood Grace Church.

Resources

Basic - $4,356,070
Title 1/LAP - 86,308
CTE - 284,032
Other allocations - 19,318
Total budget - 4,745,728


District average per-pupil expenditure in 15-16................................. 14,950.00