Members of the public were invited to hear an update on the Good Spirit School Division's financial and educational status at the division's Annual General Meeting for Electors on Monday night.
Academically, GSSD students are showing gradual signs of improvement in comparison to previous years, said Director of Education Dwayne Reeve in his annual operations report. In both reading and mathematics, elementary students in the GSSD are assessed at somewhat higher than the provincial average. But this trend fades by the middle years, with students falling back to the provincial average in Grades 7/8.
The region's students continue to perform moderately below the Canadian national average in math and reading, but there are some signs of progress. Reeve said he expects to see improvement by GSSD students, particularly in mathematics, on the next Pan-Canadian Assessment.
"In my 27 years in education, I don't believe we have ever worked as hard as we are right now to improve our profession," said the director.
Finances
Superintendent of Business Administration Sherry Todosichuk reported on the division's finances. In the September 2010 to August 2011 school year, the division saw $72.6 million in revenue and $71.3 million in expenses for a surplus of $1,263,381. These figures differed from budget by 0.38 percent.
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