Adelanto Elementary School District
Adelanto Elementary School District (AESD) is an elementary and middle school-only school district in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is headquartered in Adelanto.
It serves Adelanto and portions of Victorville.[1]
Students at the high school level attend Victor Valley Union High School District.
Schools
K-8 schools:
- Donald F. Bradach K-8 School
- El Mirage School
- George Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School
K-7 schools:
- Gus Franklin, Jr. STEM School
Middle schools:
- Columbia Middle School
- Melva Davis Academy of Excellence STEAM Middle School
- Mesa Linda Middle School
Elementary schools:
- Adelanto Elementary School
- Morgan Kincaid Preparatory School of Integrated Studies
- Theodore Vick School
- Victoria Magathan Elementary School
- West Creek Elementary School
- Westside Park Elementary School
Former schools
Desert Trails Elementary School was previously in the district. Prior to its 2013 closure it had the lowest test scores in AESD.[2] In addition almost 75% of the 6th students in Desert Trails performed below grade level in mathematics.[3]
In the 2010s a group called the Desert Trails Parent Union used California's parent trigger law, passed in 2010, to campaign to hand the school building to a charter school operator.[4] The action, done in 2013, was the first "parent trigger" attempt that succeeded in taking a campus away from a school district.[5] The nonprofit Parent Revolution supported the petition for making Desert Trails into a charter school; this petition was circulated at the same time as one that asked for improvements of AESD. The vice president of the school's PTA, Lori Yuan, stated that some parents who signed the petition stated that they thought they were signing a petititon for school impropvements, not for converting their campus into a charter school, and that they were opposed to the CONVERSION. The President of AESD, Carlos Mendoza, stated that he had concerns that supporters of making Desert Hills into a charetr had used deceit as they had circulated the two petitions at the same time. As per the parent trigger law over 50% of the parents had signed the petition approving the conversion, but the district revoked over 100 signatures. In responmse Steve Malone, the superior court judge of San Bernardino County, argued that the signatures could not be revoked and that the parent trigger law does not allow for rescinding signatures.[3]
Desert Trails Elementary closed and was replaced by Desert Trails Preparatory Academy, a charter school. In December 2015 AESD voted not to renew the charter of Desert Trails Preparatory.[2] In March 2016 the San Bernardino County Board of Education voted to hand authority over the charter school to the county government in a 3-2 vote.[6]
Beau Yarbrough of the San Bernardino Sun wrote that it became "difficult to compare apples to apples between Desert Trails Elementary and how Desert Trails Prep is doing today" because around the time Desert Trails was converted, the State of California changed its standardized testing to meet the Common Core requirements.[2]
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- ↑ "Schools." City of Victorville. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Yarbrough, Beau. "Adelanto will not renew charter for Desert Trails parent trigger school." San Bernardino Sun. December 1, 2015. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Watanabe, Teresa. "Ruling supports Adelanto charter school effort." Los Angeles Times. July 24, 2012. Rerieved on May 8, 2016.
- ↑ Yarbrough, Beau. "Judge rules in favor of Adelanto parents who sought to oust officials, teachers." San Bernardino Sun. July 23, 2012. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
- ↑ Yarbrough, Beau. "Parent-trigger handover arrives for Desert Trails Elementary School." San Bernardino Sun. June 14, 2013. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
- ↑ Yarbrough, Beau. "Parent Trigger charter school switches from Adelanto to county school." San Bernardino Sun. March 7, 2016. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
