Eligibility Checklist BKW is committed to helping students prepare for higher education and the 21st century workplace through challenging and engaging academic programs. BKW offers a curriculum designed to nurture student development both inside and outside the classroom.
Strategies for Success Targets
The Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School District has set the following academic goals:
- Graduation Rate
- Increase the graduation rate to 90 percent
- Regents Exam Passing and Mastery Rates
- At least 5 percentage point increase in passing and mastery rates
- Departments will define skills necessary to pass and master the Regents exams and measure student progress on those skills on a quarterly basis
- Grades 3-8 State Assessments
- Aggregate proficiency rate across grades 3-8 to increase by 5% points
- No grade level proficiency rate below 25 percent
- Course Failures
- Reduce course failures by 10 percent
- Reading Benchmark
- Decrease the number of students reading below grade level by 10 percent
A dedicated teaching staff
The BKW teaching staff is composed almost entirely of highly qualified teachers, or teachers who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and have passed rigorous state teacher certification tests for core teaching subjects. For both schools combined, 99 percent of teachers are highly qualified, with the remaining 1 percent on the proper pace to become highly qualified within time limits set by the state.