Welcome to Knappa School District

WELCOME BACK

We have had a great opening of school and we hope that your student(s) are off to a good start and are ready to learn and grow every day.

• Knappa District enrollment has maintained the same level as last year and we are pleased to welcome 40 new kindergartners to  our full-day no-cost program. Knappa is one of a very few Oregon school districts providing a full-day kindergarten program at no cost to families. This commitment to students is a high priority of the school board.

• Knappa is one of only 48 districts in Oregon to participate in the highly successful OregonRtI (Response to Intervention) program. With support of a planning grant from the department of education, all of our K-4 students are provided intensive intervention and instruction designed to insure that ALL student read at grade level by third grade.  Now in our second year of implementation, we continued to be pleased with the reading performance of our students. Reading at grade level is a significant predictor of success through high school.

• Oregon State Board of Education chairperson, Brenda Frank, recently stated, “the adoption of the Common Core standards in Oregon is an important step to insure that Oregon students will be learning the skills necessary to be globally competitive.” The implementation of these new learning standards in math and  English Language Arts is at the top of the list for our professional development this year.

• The Oregon Department of Education in a budget cutting measure, eliminated the state writing tests in grades 4 and 7 for this year, therefore Knappa teachers will be developing our own process to test and support student writing in the elementary and middle school this year.

Congratulations and thanks to the Knappa Booster Club for their successful fund-raising efforts to purchase a new football scoreboard! The new scoreboard will be ready for the October 28^th football game.