School District Information
The mission of the Coventry Public School District is to “to provide all its students with the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to learn as well as to contribute and to participate in a culturally diverse, rapidly changing society.” Elementary students attend Coventry Grammar School for Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade, and the GHR Intermediate School for Grades 3-5. Early adolescents attend the Capt. Nathan Hale MiddleSchool for grades 6-8, and high school students attend Coventry High School for grades 9-12.
Our schools strive to provide a high level of individual support to each student. Average K-12 class sizes range from 20-24 students. Seventy-three percent of faculty members possess advanced degrees, and all faculty members fulfill the Highly Qualified Teacher standards established by the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. Eighty-four percent of Coventry High graduates annually attend institutions of higher learning, with many attending the nation’s most prestigious universities. Coventry High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The district provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum providing challenging and rigorous courses of study in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, music, visual and performing arts, computer sciences, health and physical education. Coventry students have extensive access to computer technology, and educationally disabled students are provided with a full continuum of educational supports. Coventry High School provides students with many opportunities to earn college credit. Coventry High School students may participate in four Advanced Placement classes and five Early College Experience classes through a partnership with the University of Connecticut. These two in-house programs are bolstered by partnerships with Manchester Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University, each of which provides opportunities for Coventry High School students to take college-level courses.
The Coventry School District is also committed to providing its students with a rich and comprehensive extracurricular program. Coventry High School features 16 boys and girls athletic teams. Now competing in the North Central Connecticut Conference, Coventry High School teams have earned an ample array of conference, county and state titles, including recent back-to back state titles in Girls Volleyball. Music students participate in orchestra, band and chorus beginning in elementary school, and numerous Coventry High School music students are chosen annually to participate in regional and state select performing groups.
Strategic School Profiles
The Connecticut General Assembly passed Section 10-220(c) of the Connecticut General Statutes, an act concerning the reporting of school and district strategic profile reports, in May 1990. The law provides that: ...each local and regional board of education shall submit to the commisioner of education a strategic school profile report for each school under its jurisdiction and for the school district as a whole. Each profile report will contain information on measures of student needs, school resources, and student and school performance. The broad areas of the report include:
- student needs -- factors which may place a student at risk educationally
- school resources -- those which have been purchased and are available for use in a school
- school performance -- school programs and activities which translate resources into outcomes
- student performance -- the results of the instructional process
The primary goal of the Strategic School Profiles is to improve schools through informed decision making.
The Strategic School Profiles have two basic purposes:
- to serve as an accountability system which informs the public about what is happening in Connecticut schools
- to stimulate school improvement through shared information