Pleasant Valley Elementary School Case Analysis

Analysis of Pleasant Valley Elementary School

To the Board of Education: My name, and I have been hired as a consultant to assess Pleasant Valley Elementary School. I will be looking at the school’s current strategy and will provide feedback and suggestions to improve the quality of work and ideas to improve students Standards of Learning (SOLs) test scores. Currently the school is in a bit of disarray. The physical plant is not taking care of the issues that were affecting the school. There is furniture in the hallways and the building reeks of urine. The current administration is lacking as well. The current record keeping is a mess. There is no real structure to ensure record-keeping or to keep track of students’ academic achievement or advancement. An even bigger problem is that there is no accountability for the teachers. Teachers are also straying away from the core SOLs, they take field trips that are not related to subjects at hand. Logistically speaking, grade levels are not in the same wings providing a deterrent for engaging teachers to help one another, and student interaction. Another issue is that students are not scoring well on the SOLs.
First the school physical plant can easily take care of the environment and make huge difference in developing a community with little effort. Next an emphasis should be placed on obtaining a baseline of where the students stand, and then constructing a curriculum focusing on subjects that students seemed to be struggling with or having a hard time comprehending. This will encourage a well rounded education and so one subject is not lacking. Another easy fix would be to structure the classrooms by grade level in the same areas. This will help build a better community. Another option would be to decrease class size, this will create a better learning environment for the children and all more one on one time between the educators and