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Hillcrest Scores “A” on City Progress Report |
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Stephen M. Duch, Principal
Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott released the fifth annual Progress Reports for all New York City high schools. Hillcrest High School, Jamaica, Queens, was awarded a grade of “A.” Stephen M. Duch is very proud of the school’s achievement.
This report measures schools on a wide variety of factors such as graduation rates, Regents grades, course work, attendance, as well as surveys of parents, students, and teachers about their schools. Hillcrest High School is a Bill and Melinda Gates Small Learning Community Demonstration Site. The school has 9 learning communities’ bases on a variety of career paths. Programs include Pre-Medicine, Business / Technology, Public Service & Law, Humanities, Health Careers, Theatre, Teachers of Tomorrow, Newcomers, and Senior Academy. Hillcrest High School has been recognized as a New York State Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and has received an award for a National School of Change.
Hillcrest High School earned an “A” in the school environment section of the Progress Report in which the school beat out most other schools in the city. Hillcrest made huge gains in academic areas such Global History and the US History Regents, in which they were rated at the top gainers in the city. The school earned a 6 extra-credit for Closing the Achievement Gap and has made a phenomenal growth in student groups such as ELL learners, Students with Disabilities, and Lowest Third.
Hillcrest has always been on the forefront of innovative ideas and has opened its classrooms for many other schools and principals around the nation. Hillcrest has recently been in the new as a model school piloting the Common Core Standards which are being adopted in most states thought the nation.
Click to see Progress Report Summary
Click to see Full Progress Report
