Pyburn Elementary School Honored

        Pyburn Elementary School is one of nine GPISD campuses to earn recognition in the prestigious National Center for Educational Achievement's 2009 Just for the Kids Higher Performing List. These GPISD schools are in elite company since the NCEA deemed only 19 percent of schools in Texas as Higher Performing.
        By comparison, the Texas Education Agency identified 61 percent of schools in the state as Exemplary or Recognized. The NCEA uses standards including student growth, students actual scale scores in the elementary levels as well as the percentage of students reaching the college and career readiness benchmark to identify schools on the Higher Performing List. Pyburn Elementary School was honored for performance in third grade math.

Shown (l-r) are: Jeff Miller, President of the Board of Trustees; Conrad Rivera, Assistant Principal;
Grace Devost, Principal; and Dr. Mark Henry, Superintendent of Schools.