Howard Street Charter School

The teachers attend extensive training to improve classroom instruction overall. They continue to focus on challenging curriculum personalized to the individual student. During the prior and current year it was designed to be active and engaging to ease the continuing effects of covid-19. The School uses alignment, integrated projects while assessing proficiency to state standard student performance. This thorough preparation meant the School successfully navigated the challenges created by the covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the School used relief funding to provide additional space emphasizing health and wellness activities, addional counseling support, upgraded safety by improving air quality in the classroom, sound panels to mitigate outside interference and additional fire alarms. The School achieved national recognition from the annual us news and world report best k-8 School rankings for 2022. They ranked #1 in Oregon Charter middle schools, #1 in salem-keizer School district 24j middle schools and tied for #1 in reading proficiency.