Sinapalo Elementary School

Executive Summary

Sinapalo Elementary School is located in the village of Sinapalo. It is the only Public Elementary school on Rota, serving kindergarten through sixth grade students. The school consists of an administration building, library, sixteen classrooms, restroom facilities, and a cafeteria. Sinapalo Elementary School continues to be a site for community functions, organization sponsored workshops, school activities, or training in either the cafeteria or library.

At the end of School Year 2019-20, SNP served 187 students, with a total of 97 males and 90 females with a diverse ethnic background that consisted of: Chamorro, Filipino, Bangladesh, Pohnpeian, and Korean students. Sinapalo Elementary School service provisions include bussing, Free and Reduced Meal Program, Title I Reading Literacy Program, and Special Education services. The school has a staff of 32 to include 1 Principal, 1 Vice Principal, 1 counselor, 1 administrative officer, 1 administrative specialist, 2 school aides, 1 building maintenance, 15 classroom teachers, 1 librarian, 1 Title I teacher, 1 Literacy Coach, 2 Special Education (SPED) teachers, 5 SPED teacher aides, 1 Chamorro Carolinian Language Heritage Studies (CCLHS) instructor, 1 CCLHS teacher aide, and 1 support staff member from the Mayor’s Office.

In SY 19-20, Student Non-Academic Performance Data include Free and Reduced Meals, Educational services, and English Language Learners. Of the student populations, 100% are receiving Free Meals. 84% of the student population is receiving General Education services while 16% are receiving Special Education services. SNP also serves 30% English Language Learners and 70% of Non-English Language Learners.

The school uses a variety of assessment data to determine students’ academic performances. Our school’s goal for SY 2019-2020 was: 58% of all students will be reading at/above grade level by June 2020 as measured by Early STAR Literacy and STAR Reading assessments. Our school did not meet the SY 2019-2020 goal due to COVID-19 Pandemic disrupting the last quarter of the School Year. Based on end of SY 19-20 STAR Early Literacy data for Kindergarten, 67% were at/above grade level, 11% are on watch, 11% at intervention, and 11% at urgent intervention; and 1st grade, 63% at/above grade level, 27% on watch; 5% intervention, and 5% urgent intervention. The STAR Reading data for 2nd – 6th grades was: 2nd grade - 65% at/above,22% on watch, 4% intervention, 9% urgent intervention; 3nd grade - 54% at/above, 18% on watch, 14% intervention, 14% urgent intervention; 4th grade - 41% at/above, 23% on watch, 10% intervention, 26% urgent intervention; 5th grade - 42% at/above, 21% on watch, 29% intervention, 8% urgent intervention; and 6th grade - 50% at/above, 14% on watch, 14% intervention, 21% urgent intervention.

SNP continues to focus its efforts in improving student reading achievement. Last school year, all teachers used a balanced literacy approach in reading. Teachers provided challenging learning experiences through professional development and coaching that are aligned to the school’s curriculum, instructional design and assessment to develop skills, which lead to improving students’ academic success. In addition, our school will continue to provide skills, which lead to improving students’ academic success. In addition, our school will continue to provide high student performance, highly qualified personnel, effective and efficient operations, safe and orderly campus, parent involvement and community partnership, and a high performing and reliable system.