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State names three Valley Stream schools 'high performing'

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Schools in three of Valley Stream’s four districts were recognized as some of the highest performing in the state by the New York State Department of Education last month.

District 13’s James A. Dever Elementary School, District 30’s Forest Road Elementary School and the Valley Stream Central High School District’s South High School received the honor for their performance over the past two years. Each of the schools will receive a certificate of recognition from the Education Department Commissioner John King.

Superintendents of the districts said they were pleased to see the designations. “We know all our schools are great schools, but getting some recognition for South High School from an outside agency like the state Education Department is great,” Valley Stream Central High School District Superintendent Bill Heidenreich said.

District 13 Superintendent Adrienne Robb-Fund said that she was “extremely proud that Dever was recognized as a high performing reward school. All of the schools in District 13 have the same programs, and this shows that those programs are having an effect.”

District 13’s Dever Elementary and the Central High School District’s South High School received the honor for a second consecutive year, the only two of Valley Stream’s five award schools for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 years to repeat. District 30’s Clearstream Avenue and Shaw Avenue Elementary Schools fell out of the high performing category, as did District 24’s Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School.

District 30 Superintendent Nicholas Stirling said Forest Road’s designation for the second consecutive year shows that the district’s efforts to raise standards are working. “I’m very proud to work in District 30 and I think this designation shows all that our school has achieved and confirms all the hard work and support that our principal and really the whole staff put in.”

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