MS447 Math & Science Exploratory School

School Demographics (2015-2016)
There were 525 students enrolled at MS447 during the 2015-2016 school year.  The student body is predominately white (52%), Hispanic or Latino (20%), or Black or African American (17%).  17% of the school’s population is considered economically disadvantaged and 20% receive special education services.  The average class size at MS447 is 30 students.  Other demographic information available on the NYS Report Card

School Demographics (2016-2017)
There were 521 students enrolled at MS447 during the 2016-2017 school year. The student body is predominately white (56%), Hispanic or Latino (18%), or Black or African American (13%). 16% of the school’s population is considered economically disadvantaged and 19% receive special education services. The average class size at MS447 is 30 students. Other demographic information is available on the NYS Report Card

School Demographics (2016-2017)
There were 524 students enrolled at MS447 during the 2016-2017 school year. The student body is predominately white (55%), Hispanic or Latino (20%), or Black or African American (11%). 21% of the school’s population is considered economically disadvantaged, 24% receive special education services, and 1% of the population is considered to be English Language Learners. The average class size at MS447 is 30 students. Other demographic information is available on the NYS Report Card.

School Demographics (2018-2019)
There were 545 students enrolled at MS447 during the 2018-2019 school year. The student body is predominately white (53%), Hispanic or Latino (20%), or Black or African American (11%). 27% of the school’s population is considered economically disadvantaged, 25% receive special education services, and 1% of the population is considered to be English Language Learners. The average class size at MS447 is 30 students. Other demographic information is available on the NYS Report Card.

RTI Leadership Team

• Arin Rusch | Building Principal
• Dave Grosshandler | RTI Coordinator

• Allison Pariani | General Educator
• Amanda Landwehr | Speech-Language Pathologist
• Janet Wong | Special Educator
• Jessica Saunders | 
• Leslie Hughes | General Educator
• Liza Zaretsky | Special Educator
• Tiffane Shedwell | Special Educator
• Star Corvinelli | Guidance Counselor

RTI/MTSS Mission/Purpose Statement
The purpose of the RtI process at our middle school is to provide the targeted support that students need to grow academically.

SMART Goals

1. Infrastructure exists to support data collection and analysis: By 2020, PLC activities are work product and data-driven. The PLCs will take the form of twice-monthly grade-level department meetings dedicated to inquiry cycles that analyze baseline data and progress-monitoring data in service to data-driven instruction/intervention, using an established protocol.
2. By the spring of 2020, we have identified or created a suite of assessments to administer to target students to diagnosis-specific learning goals and to inform intervention.
3. By 2020, staff and faculty are knowledgeable about evidence-based interventions and can deliver interventions matched to the data-defined student need.
4. Progress monitoring assessments will be utilized regularly by the spring of 2020.
5. By 2020, there will be a reduction of at-risk students, as measured by universal screeners in each grade level cohort.

Intervention Menu

RTI/MTSS Abbreviated Self-Assessment Survey Results

• Fall 2017

Annual Action Plan

• Action Plan (2017-2018)
• Action Plan (2018-2019)
• Action Plan (2019-2020)