A Culture of Teaching and Learning For All!

Winny Llorens St. Thomas University Spring Semester 2013 The Internship Dr. James May

Our halls are constant reminders of our college bound goal!

A few adjectives that describe our students are posted in our school caf! during lunch students can practice their Spanish!

MISSION The Rice School/La Escuela Rice will provide a diverse group of children with challenging academic experiences and the nurturing environment necessary to become lifelong learners, critical thinkers and responsible citizens in a diverse, democratic society. Ethnic Distribution Students Teachers

African American
Hispanic White American Indian Asian Pacific Islander Two or more races Economically Disadvantaged LEP At-Risk

38.8%
52.0% 3.4% 0.9% 4.6% 0.0% 0.3% 64.4% 17.4% 42.1%

25.0%
16.1% 24.0%

We develop the WHOLE child!

We display our talents for the world to see through

Music and art, with our amazing elementary and middle school choirs and middle school band, and art UIL competitions in volleyball, basketball, track, soccer, cheerleading and robotics Academics in national junior honor society and student council, name that book, spelling B competitions Exciting thematic teaching and learning in every classroom Annual Field Days, where the elementary students show their athletic skills through fun, age appropriate activities
The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, A Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Magnet has a unique sense of family as many of our students are with us for nine years, from kindergarten through eighth grade

F I N E A R T S

Our fine art s department is simply outstanding! The beautiful stain glass project, self-portraits and other amazing works of art adorn our halls complements of our fine arts students. Band and choir performances are well beyond the years of the students performing. It must be seen and heard to believe.

Robotics
Technology and Engineering

We share our abundance with those less fortunate, honor our heroes, triumph with those who have accomplished their goals, pay tributes to those lost in senseless tragedies and console those in our community that need consoling. A TRIBUTE TO SANDY HOOK

Click here to see and hear tribute.

Our Abundance
Change for Change, is a project that began four years ago. The students are asked to donate a nickel once a month and $35 is sent to support our adopted child through World Vision. The little boy lives in Tanzania, Africa. Due to the generosity of our students, there is always overage; every year for Christmas we send the balance in the account to Tumwesigi and his family, and begin in January at $0. The Kempt 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament is held in October and the proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Research Fund. This event is in honor of one of our teachers lost to breast cancer.

Diabetes Walks in three years we raised over $50K for The American Diabetes Association.
Annual Food Drives for Thanksgiving and the Superbowl of Caring provide food for the Houston Food Bank. Community Service Projects are performed by our Athletes, Student Council, cheerleaders and NJHS. Annual Jump Rope for Heart. And more.

Committed Faculty and Staff Yields Positive Results

Certified Gifted and talented teachers in every grade level Teachers with advanced degrees has increased from 32% to 39% in the last four years and is growing 52% of the teachers have 11 or more years of experience, 22% have 6 10 years and 26% have less than 5 Teacher turnover rate is only 2.3%, very low in comparison to the campus group, district, and state Teachers collaborate to help students succeed through weekly PLC meetings

Students consistently score above average on Stanford in all grades On average 90% or more of all students passed TAKS STAAR raw scores are above district averages in all areas

We always work hard, strive to improve, celebrate our successes, learn from our failures, and repeat this cycle of Personal Best transformation.
Showing our Texans pride with Reliant Stadium in the background and poems about our team on the goalposts!

Fun with math, using area and art!

Project based learning

Celebrating 100 Days

Charlottes Webs describe Wilbur

Myths and Legends

F U N W I T H MATH

Science projects

STAAR Results - 2012 The Rice School/La Escuela Rice

The Rice School scores are above the district averages! Elementary 3rd 5th Middle 6th 8th
3rd grade Reading 95 students Reading Spanish - 22 Math 95 students Math Spanish - 22 4th grade Reading II - Passed 80% 76 students 82% 18 students 74% 70 students 68% 15 students II - Passed 82% III - Advanced 28% 27 students 27% 6 students 27% 26 students 18% 4 students III - Advanced 21% Reading 162 Students Math 51 Students Writing 161 Students 8th grade US Hist. 153 Students Science 153 students Math ELA 147 students 91% 23 students 45% 141 students 88% II - Passed 122 students 80% 127 students 83% Scores not in Scores not in 28 students 17% 0 students 0% 7 students 4% III - Advanced 27 18% 19 12% 6th grade Reading 180 students Math II - Passed 85% 153 students 83% III - Advanced 18% 33 students 18%

180 Students
7th grade

150 students
II - Passed

32
III - Advanced

112 students
Math 113 students Writing 112 students 5th grade Science 136 students Math Reading

92 students
64% 72 students 80% 90 students II - Passed 65% 88 students Scores not in Scores not in

23 students
17% 19 students 20% 22 students III - Advanced 14% 19 students Scores not in Scores not in

The Rice School/La Escuela Rice Family

A great place to learn

A great place to play
A great place to teach