CRESCENT ELEMENTARY (Year-round)
Principal:	Debbie Shumard
Address:	11100 S. 230 East Sandy, UT 84070
Phone:	(801) 572-7060
Fax:	(801) 302-4916
Mascot:	Cubs
School Colors:	Blue & White
Home Page:	http://schools.jordandistrict.org/crescent/
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"A Continuing Tradition of Excellence"
We strive to create a positive, proactive, and safe educational environment. Our goal is to establish a nurturing, motivating, exciting learning experience, emphasizing language arts, mathematics, and science. We work hard to meet individual needs, and develop problem solving and higher level thinking skills. Our school promotes the development of respect, responsibility, caring, and good citizenship that will help prepare our students for the opportunities of an ever-changing world.

• Belief Statements
  
• Every student can learn, under the correct circumstances.
  
• It is a privilege for our faculty to provide a safe environment for all students.
  We all possess talents that can help others if shared.
  
• Parents, teachers, and students need to work together to achieve success.
• Crescent Dynamics
  
• The school was built in 1981. Many of our students have community roots dating back to pioneer days. We enjoy a strong partnership between students, parents, faculty, and community.
  
• Crescent operates on a 3-track year-round schedule (A,C,D). Our school begins at 8:50 a.m. and ends at 3:50 p.m. On Fridays our students are released at 1:50 p.m. Our teachers use the remaining two hours to prepare.
  
• Our student enrollment is around 700 students in grades Kindergarten through sixth.
  
• Crescent has 30 certificated teachers, eight with Master's Degrees, and one that is National Board Certified. Eight teachers are ESL endorsed, one is art endorsed,three are gifted endorsed, one is music endorsed, and there are two with reading endorsements.
  
• Crescent Elementary received the FIVE STAR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE given by Jordan School District Board for "Outstanding School Public Relations", 2008.
  
• Our students have read over ONE MILLION minutes during each of the last three years.
  
• Parent volunteers log over 1200 volunteer hours each year.
  
• We welcome visitors. Always check into the front office for a visitor's pass.

Criterion Referenced Tests (CRT)
The Core Criterion Referenced Tests (CRTs) are administered at the end of each school year to help assess how well students have mastered the standards and objectives set forth in the State of Utah Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science core curricula.   Student achievement is reported as the percent of students reaching “proficient” by earning a Level 3 or Level 4 performance on the Core CRT.

Year	1st Lang. Arts	1st Math	2nd Lang. Arts	2nd Math	3rd Lang. Arts	3rd Math
2003-04	84%	84%	83%	85%	74%	69%
2004-05	85%	78%	83%	84%	66%	56%
2005-06	78%	81%	86%	84%	75%	54%
2006-07	73%	72%	83%	78%	77%	67%
2007-08			85%	73%	85%	71%
Year	4th Lang. Arts	4th Math	4th Science	5th Lang. Arts	5th Math	5th Science
2003-04	85%	84%	78%	75%	65%	68%
2004-05	84%	81%	71%	90%	77%	64%
2005-06	80%	63%	54%	78%	72%	67%
2006-07	75%	70%	72%	80%	58%	68%
2007-08	85%	77%	74%	71%	60%	72%
Year	6th Lang. Arts	6th Math	6th Science
2003-04	83%	71%	47%
2004-05	67%	60%	56%
2005-06	90%	87%	85%
2006-07	79%	72%	67%
2007-08	64%	70%	68%

Detailed Core CRT results by student subgroups

IOWA Tests
The IOWA Test of Basic Skills provides a comparison of achievement to students across the United States in reading, language arts, math, science and social studies.  The IOWA test is given each fall to students in grades 3, 5, and 8.  The Jordan School District School also administers the IOWA to students in grade 6.  Results are reported as the average percentile rank.  The national average is the 50th percentile in each area.

3rd Grade
Norms	Year	Reading	Language	Math	Core Total	Soc. Studies	Science	Total Composite
2000 Norms	2004-05	64	55	54	59	63	70	64
2000 Norms	2005-06	70	59	61	65	68	70	69
2005 Norms*	2006-07	61	55	54	56	63	69	63
2005 Norms*	2007-08	59	46	50	53	60	66	61
5th Grade
Norms	Year	Reading	Language	Math	Core Total	Soc. Studies	Science	Total Composite
2000 Norms	2004-05	67	61	58	62	61	70	65
2000 Norms	2005-06	64	61	61	61	65	72	66
2005 Norms*	2006-07	56	57	46	54	57	62	57
2005 Norms*	2007-08	60	57	49	55	58	64	59
6th Grade
Norms	Year	Reading	Language	Math	Total Survey
2000 Norms	2004-05	49	52	42	47
2000 Norms	2005-06	77	78	67	75
2005 Norms*	2006-07	62	65	59	63
2005 Norms*	2007-08	45	54	31	42

* It is not appropriate to formally compare school results between the old norms and the new norms.

Direct Writing Assessment (DWA)
The Direct Writing Assessment (DWA) is designed to assess the writing skills of 6th and 9th grade students in February and March each year.  The following six components of writing are assessed: ideas & content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
 

Grade 6	Average Points Earned
Year	Ideas / Content	Organization	Voice	Word Choice	Sentence Fluency	Conventions	Composite
2003/04	3.4	3.4	3.7	3.2	3.3	3.3	20.2
2004/05	3.3	3.2	3.4	3.3	3.3	3.2	19.7
2005/06	3.7	3.6	3.8	3.4	3.5	3.5	21.5
2006/07	3.4	3.4	3.5	3.4	3.3	3.3	20.3
2007/08*	2.9	2.9	3.0	3.0	2.9	2.9	17.6

* Each year the direct writing prompt changes, therefore caution should be used in making year to year conclusions.
 

Begin at the Jordan River and 9800 S.; east along 9800 S. (both sides) to 300 W.; northeast across the I-15 Freeway to Town Ridge Pkwy. and 225 W.; northeast to State Street (south side) and 9400 S.; south along State Street (west side) to 10200 S.; east along 10200 S. (both sides to Crescent) to 300 E.; north along 300 E. (east side) to Dry Creek (approx. 10000 S.); east along Dry Creek (south side) to 700 E.; south along 700 E. (west side) to 11400 S. ; west along 11400 S. (north side) to the East Jordan Canal (approx. 100 E.); south along the East Jordan Canal (west side) to 11700 S.; continuing along 100 E. (west side) to 11800 S.; west along 11800 S. (north side) to the Jordan River; north along the Jordan River (east side) to 9800 S. View school area elementary boundary map