Happy Holidays, OCFSD!

It's hard to believe the holiday season is upon us! It seems like just yesterday, we welcomed back our 6,400 students to the new school year.

All Together Now was the theme for this year's back-to-school celebration for our staff. Those powerful words helped set the tone for the 22-23 school year. As you can see from our snapshots below, our staff and students have embraced this year's theme, sharing their time and talents and showing compassion for their schools, community, and each other.

As we head into Winter Break, I hope you, too, can embrace our theme All Together Now and spend time with the most important people in your life.

I wish you all the best in the new year!

Dan Unertl, Superintendent

All Together Now

Oak Creek High School Theatre students shared their time and talent with 700 OC elementary students who took a special field trip to the Oak Creek Performing Arts & Education Center to see OCHS Theatre's incredible performance of James and the Giant Peach.

Mr. Bradley's 5th grade knitting group at Forest Ridge spends recess time knitting hats, scarfs, and gloves to donate!

East Middle School made the holiday season a little brighter for their families in need with the EMS giving tree!

West Middle School kicked off spirit week with cozy pajama day!

Deerfield filled one of the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin's tiny homes with food donations for their village market.

When asked what they were thankful for, Carollton kindergarteners responded EACH OTHER!

Cedar Hills students celebrated their school pride with spirit day.

Meadowview ambassadors organized a food drive for The Salvation Army.

When Shepard Hills students are spotted doing something kind they get a mini gnome to color and add to Mr. Jingle Bells!

All three Empower Academy FIRST LEGO League teams shared their Innovation Project solutions with their peers. The SUPERPOWERED challenge had each team create a solution to a better energy future.

The Soaring Eagles Leadership Group from Edgewood spread some holiday cheer by singing and ringing the bells for The Salvation Army!

A Letter from the President

Meadowview third grader Jamie was surprised when he received a special letter in the mail at school. “It was surprising because it has been a whole summer since I wrote the President,” Jamie explains. That’s right! Jamie received a letter from President Joe Biden in response to a letter he had written last year for an assignment.

Last year, during their opinion writing unit, second-grade students in Mrs. Stenlund’s class were challenged to write to someone about a topic they were passionate about and wanted change to happen. “I chose to write about the environment because it’s important to me, and it affects everyone,” Jamie shared. Jamie wrote about environmental concerns like animal extinction and habitat loss. “I decided to write to the president because I think he can help,” Jamie said. In his response, President Biden thanked Jamie for his letter and encouraged him to continue to use his voice.

Jamie plans to frame his special letter and hang it in his room at home.

Board Approves the 2023-2024 School Calendar

Mark your calendars! The Board of Education approved the 2023-2024 school year calendar.

Elementary Report Cards for the 2023-2024 School Year: There is one modification that has been made related to elementary report cards. OCFSD will be transitioning from a quarterly report card, reporting student progress four times a school year, to a trimester grading period reporting three times. This modification was made in order to accommodate additional time for instruction to accurately assess students and provide students more time to demonstrate their learning. The trimester provides more days of instruction before communicating student progress. Student report card progress will be communicated in December, March, and June for the 23-24 school year.

Check out some important dates for the 23-24 school year and view the full calendar on our website.

VIEW THE SCHOOL CALENDARS

District & School Report Cards

The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has released its School and District Report Cards for the 2021-2022 school year. All Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District schools met or exceeded expectations on the 2021-2022 State Report Card. The Report Cards are intended to help districts use performance data to target improvement efforts that ensure students are ready for their next educational step – whether it be the next grade level, graduation, college and/or careers.

At the foundation of the report cards are four priority areas. Schools receive a score for each of the four priority areas:

Student Achievement: students’ level of knowledge and skills attained compared against state academic standards in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.
Growth: how rapidly students are gaining knowledge and skills from year to year, focusing on the pace of improvement in students’ performance.
Target Group Outcomes: outcomes for students with the lowest test scores in their school - the Target Group. Outcomes are displayed for achievement, growth, chronic absenteeism, and attendance or graduation rate.
On-Track to Graduation: how successfully students are achieving educational milestones that predict later success.

In 2021-2022, OCFSD met expectations with a score of 69.3 and celebrates achievement scores that are higher than the state average. In addition, the District score was the same or higher than 72% of Districts in the state. Another area to celebrate was our Growth scores increased by almost 6 points, and Target Group Outcomes overall score increased by 5.6 points from the prior year.

All public report cards can be found online at http://dpi.wi.gov/accountability/report-cards.

We applaud the hard work of our students and staff and thank them for their dedication and commitment to our schools!

VIEW DISTRICT & SCHOOL REPORT CARDS

Annual Notices including the District and School Report Cards and Educational Options are available on the District Website.

2023 Summer School Information

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the thought of SUMMER school is so delightful! Course descriptions for summer school for students in grades kindergarten-8th will be available on March 3. Course selection will be open in Inifinite Campus March 6-24.

More Information

Grades K-3

Forest Ridge Elementary

7:45 - 11:45 am

June 19 - July 14

Monday - Friday

No school on July 4, 2023

Grades 4-8

East Middle School

8:15 am - 12:15 pm

June 19 - July 22

Monday - Friday

No school on July 4, 2023

Grades 9-12

Oak Creek High School

7:30 am - 12:30 pm*

June 19 - July 27

Monday - Thursday

No school on July 4, 2023

* Some high school classes have a modified commitment.

Oak Creek Community Education & Recreation

Check out the many exciting offerings available in the Oak Creek Community Education & Recreation Winter/Spring "What To Do" guide!

Interested in coaching a team, leading an activity, or have programming ideas? Please share with us. Email Heather Ryan at h.ryan@ocfsd.org or call 768-6166.

Visit the OCR Website

Celebrate Ring of Kerry at the PAEC

Tickets go on sale on December 20.

Visit the PAEC website

Virtual Backpack

Check out the community happenings on the virtual backpack! The Virtual Backpack for Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District is our "eco-friendly" approach to distributing community information.

Virtual Backpack Link

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