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• Scotus Central Catholic, offering a faith-based Catholic education featuring academic excellence and a structured environment is seeking qualified applicants for the 2013-14 school year in 7-12 English.  This position will include extracurricular activity opportunities.

Send a letter of application, resume and credentials to:

Wayne Morfeld, President
Scotus Central Catholic HS
1554 18th Avenue
Columbus, NE  68601
402-564-7165
 or:   wmorfel@esu7.org

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PLAN

The 2012-13 school year was the third year the PLAN assessment was taken by all sophomores at Scotus Central Catholic.  Previously this assessment was optional. 

The PLAN by Quartiles charts shows how the students performed by quartiles. Each quartile represents 25% of the students taking the PLAN nationally. The fourth quartile represents the top 25% of students nationally.  All information is in percentages.  Example:  77% of the Scotus Central Catholic 10^th graders placed in the top 25% nationally in math and science on this assessment.     

College readiness scores are generated by ACT which develops the package of testing including, EXPLORE, PLAN and ACT.  College Readiness scores for the PLAN (10^th grade) indicate a student’s probable readiness for college-level work by the time the student graduates from high school.  The number in parenthesis is the minimum score considered to meet the criteria for that particular academic area.  The College Readiness chart shows the percent of students at Scotus and nationally meeting or exceeding the minimum standard.  The minimum score does vary between academic areas. A minimum score of 15 for English represents scoring in the 45^th percentile, 19 for math represents scoring in the 71^st percentile, 17 for reading represents scoring in the 60^th percentile and 21 for science represent scoring in the 85^th percentile. 

This sophomore class is the first class to take the EXPLORE their 8^th grade year followed by the PLAN this year.  This gives the school the ability to track their growth on standardized testing as they progress from the 8^th grade to sophomores.  If a student or class of students maintain the same percentile rank from one year to the next this is considered average growth.  At Scotus it is our goal to have the students actually improve their percentile rank or display above average growth.  The graph below shows the progress the class made from the EXPLORE to the PLAN based on college readiness standards.  It is impressive, especially the improvement in the percent of students being on track to be college ready in all four areas, and the individual areas Reading, and Science.  I consider it amazing that 57% of the students met the college readiness standard compared to nationally less 20% meeting the standard.  NICE JOB SOPHOMORES, SOON TO BE JUNIORS!