Congratulations! Newport Junior High School has been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as a school where students are Beating the Odds by demonstrating high growth on the ATLAS, despite facing economic challenges outside of school! As you may know, the OEP creates an annual report entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards, where we recognize schools with high student academic growth. We think growth is the best indicator of the positive impact that your school is having on students. Newport Junior High School recieved the following awards:
High Overall Growth (Northeast region)
High Math Growth (Northeast region)
High ELA Growth (Northeast region)
We provide badges for placement on your school's website (attached), and personalized paper awards will be sent to the district later this school year. Although state accountability has moved to the percentage of students that met or exceed growth expectations, we continue to base OEP Awards on 2025 content growth score calculated by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. These growth scores reflect how much students at the school improved from 2024 compared to how much other students with similar prior achievement improved. We recognize schools based on Overall growth, as well as for growth in Math and English Language Arts separately. To learn more about how we determined the OEP award winners and to see the full list of award recipients, you can view the report here. We congratulate you on this accomplishment and hope that you will share this good news with teachers, students, and others who contributed to your school's success. \ | 
