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Release Date: February 25, 2010
 State Recognizes District 15’s ‘Academic Excellence’
Six District 15 schools have made the 2009 Illinois Honor Roll and earned Academic Excellence Awards.
The Illinois Honor Roll is a joint project of the Illinois State Board of Education and Northern Illinois University. The Honor Roll celebrates the accomplishments of exemplary Illinois public schools by recognizing schools in three categories: Spotlight Schools, Academic Improvement Awards, and Academic Excellence Awards.
- Spotlight Schools are high-poverty schools where high academic performance is closing the “achievement gap.”
- The Academic Improvement Award is given to schools that have made substantial gains in performance over the last three years.
- The Academic Excellence Award is given to schools that have sustained very high academic performance levels on state assessments over at least three years.
In District 15, all six recognized schools have received 2009 Academic Excellence Awards have also received this honor in the past. Those schools are:
- Hunting Ridge School (2005-2009)
- Marion Jordan School (2004-2009)
- Pleasant Hill School (2004-2009)
- Plum Grove Junior High (2007-2009)
- Frank C. Whiteley School (2004 and 2008-2009)
- Winston Campus Elementary School (2007-2009)
The 438 Illinois schools that received 2009 Academic Excellence Awards had to meet the following criteria:
- At least 90 percent of students met or exceeded state standards in both reading and mathematics for at least three consecutive years.
All schools must have made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the past two years.
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