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Strategic Management Plan SMP1: Contextual Analysis of the Learning Community

The name of the school is Saint Peter the Apostle School, SPA for short. SPA is a Catholic parochial school in the Diocese of Savannah. The school is located on Wilmington Island which is just east of the city of Savannah. Our logo is located to the left. The mission statement for our school is as follows: St. Peter the Apostle School exists to provide a quality Catholic education based on Gospel values and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Following the traditions of the Sisters of Mercy, the

school educates through a strong academic program and instills a spirit of mercy, justice, and loving concern in its students. Our slogan for the school is “Together, we pray, we learn, we play.”

We have a five year school improvement plan. This year we are working on the next five year plan. Some of the goals we are discussing to include in the plan are increasing communication with parents, updating the technology by getting new computers in the computer lab and new smartboards in the classrooms. Another goal is to update the phone system in the school by putting a phone in every classroom. These are just in the preliminary stages and we may add more.

Currently, the school goes from PreK 3 through eighth grade. There are two-hundred twenty-three students with an average class size of about fifteen students (Ross, 2014). There are twenty-nine faculty and staff members with twenty-three being certified by the State of Georgia and one being certified by the Diocese of Savannah as a Religion Teacher (Ross, 2014).

We use the Tera Nova standardized test giving in March for our Annual Yearly Progress. Our scores are slightly higher than the average scores for the Diocese. We have a speech teacher who comes twice a week for the students that need help with speech. We, also, have a special-education teacher who comes in twice a week to work

with one of our students who has visual problems. There is a counselor who works three days a week to provide individual and class guidance.

The school has a before school program, an extended day program, hot lunches, if students prefer, and an intramural sports program for all grades. Currently, we have a robotics club for grades fourth through eighth, chess club for sixth through eighth grade, year book for seventh and eighth grade, newspaper for fifth through eighth grade, science fair for seventh grade and choir for second through sixth.

The library has one full time librarian with recess duty every day from eleven-thirty to one o’clock. There is a computer lab next to the library which is open all day for anyone in the school to use and there are three lap tops in the library for everyone to use. Our selection of books is divided into Easy, Fiction, Junior Fiction, Biographies, and Informational. The chart below shows the amount of the materials that are in the library. The Fiction and Junior Fiction books are counted as one group.

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Biography

Informational

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4,762.00

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3,601.00

Book Collection

Book Collection

Learning Common Goals for the Library:

*To make the library accessible to all students, staff and parents*To provide a quiet area for individual work*To instill a love for reading and learning

Wilmington Island is a small community which has about fifteen thousand, three hundred and sixty residents (Loclalabs, 2014) . The population is predominantly White with a mixture of Black, Asian, Hispanics/Latinos and other cultures (Loclalabs, 2014). The following chart shows the population make-up of Wilmington Island.

White 13,888 Black 429 Asian 605 Hispnics/Latinos 260

other 390

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The median age for people living on Wilmington Island is forty-one (Loclalabs, 2014). The biggest group of people are the forty to forty-nine age group with the smallest group being the eighty and older group (Loclalabs, 2014). The following chart shows the age group and the number of people in that group.

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The language spoken on Wilmington Island is predominantly English with some Spanish, European, Asian/Pacific Island and other (Loclalabs, 2014). The following chart shows the number of people who speak the different languages.

Language Spoken On Wilmington Island

English 13,893Spanish 184Eoropean 227Asian/Pacific 413Other 83

There are no major industries on Wilmington Island. In surrounding areas, we have Gulfstream, Ports Authority and Dixie Crystals. The median individual income for adults living on Wilmington Island is thirty-seven thousand, seven-hundred and sixteen dollars (Loclalabs, 2014). The median household income for married adults living on Wilmington Island is seventy-one thousand, six hundred eighty-five dollars (Loclalabs, 2014). The percent of individuals living on Wilmington Island below the poverty line is six point fifty-two (Loclalabs, 2014).

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Of the adults, who are eighteen years or older, ninety-four percent have a high school diploma or higher level of education (Loclalabs, 2014). The following chart shows the percent of adults with a high school diploma, a bachelor degree or a master degree.

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Levels of Education

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Bibliography:

V. Ross, Remedial/Enrichment Support Teacher, February 5, 2014

Loclalabs,(n.d.). Wilmington Island, Georgia data snapshot. Available from

http://locallabs.org/wilmingtonisland-georgia