File includes the following documents: 

MCPSS Strategic Plan Flyer 

Top 10 Reasons to Attend Mobile County 

Public Schools 

MCPSS Facebook 

MCPSS Twitter 

MCPSS TV Network 

MCPSS theWire 

ACT Aspire Video 

It Starts With Us Annual Legislative Meeting 

Multiple Pathways‐ Choice Schools Flyer 

It Starts With Us Flyer 

 

 

 

Engaged Learners

Mobile County Public Schools will graduate college- and career-ready students.

Quality Professionals

Mobile County Public Schools will recruit, employ, develop and retain professionals who are effective in achieving our mission.

Emerging Technologies

Community Partnerships

Sound Fiscal Management

Operational and Support Systems

Mobile County Public Schools will use emerging technologies to support teaching, learning and work.

Mobile County Public Schools will provide safe, supportive and equitable environments.

Mobile County Public Schools will manage financial resources responsibly and transparently.

Mobile County Public Schools will communicate with employees and the community to inform, engage and ensure accountability.

Mobile County Public Schools will become a premier educational system where students engage in multiple pathways leading to success in a global society.

Mission VisionThe mission of Mobile

County Public Schools is to graduate prepared and

productive citizens.

Starting high school is an inter-esting mixture of curiosity and excite-ment, but also wor-ries and anticipation.

It’s exciting to be starting high school.

In general, starting new things gives me a thrill of excitement, and I can’t wait to see what it’s going to be like—new programs and teachers, bigger hallways, and many different people to be friends with.

People have told me that nothing is just like high school and that I will enjoy it so much. It’s invigorating to know that I am going to have this hopefully great new experience.

Naturally, every high schooler has worries. Academic programs in high school seem way

more advanced than middle school classes. I’m going to be taking intellectually advanced class-es with other people who want their minds to be challenged.

Another worry is the social part of high school. According to everyone else, high school is about “finding yourself,” so apparently we don’t just have to make new friends, which can be difficult enough within itself, but we have to figure out who we are somewhere along the way.

But even with these worries, somehow I’m excited.

When I start worrying, I remember a couple of things.

First, I was exactly like this before starting middle school. I was worried about grades and friends, but then actually experiencing middle school was amazing. I have gotten a great educa-tion and have made great friends along the way.

One of the other things that grounds me is that I really want to do this. I want to go to high school, get an education, have life-long friends, and have experiences that will last forever.

I want to be graduating with both accomplish-ments and great friends in the class of 2020.

It Starts With Us.

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Education Excellence: We have 12 National Blue Rib-bon Schools, 15 of Alabama’s Torchbearer Schools and 2 Baldrige Quality Schools of Excellence. We are the Ad-

vanced Placement leader in the state with 1,525 AP students this past spring and 144 AP Scholars. One of every four graduates earns scholarships, for a total of $72 million in 2014. We are the state leader in Career Technical Education as our students earned 7,303 credentials in 2014. Also, our JROTC students earn numerous Academy appointments and scholarships annually.

Excellent Academic Programs: We focus on literacy, mathematics and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). We offer college and career prepara-

tion and advanced curriculums, including Advanced Placement courses, International Baccalaureate programs, dual enrollment and accelerated learning. We have top-notch magnet schools, pre-kindergarten and English Language Learner programs.

Multiple Pathways to Graduation: We offer multiple pathways to graduation to provide learning options for students. That includes

our High School Signature Academies, Envision Virtual School, Career Technical Education, Eve-ning Education Option Program, opportunities for early graduation and our Twilight Schools.

Comprehensive Education: Our 59,000 students have access to a rigorous core cur-riculum, fine arts, athletics, JROTC, special

education, foreign languages, STEM (Science Tech-nology Engineering Mathematics), Career Technical Education, and numerous extracurricular programs and activities.

Skilled Staff & Accredited Schools: Our teachers - 99.9 percent of them - are designated as Highly Qualified by the U.S. Department of

Education. We also have Nationally Board Certified teachers and state and nationally recognized admin-istrators. All 89 of our schools and the system as a whole are accredited by AdvancED.

Technology: Students in all our schools use 21st century technology daily. That includes: SMARTboards, tablets, laptops, desktop computers and other electronic devices.

Students have access to cloud storage and Microsoft Office prod-ucts to use at home.

Parent Involvement and Communication: We encourage parental involvement and communicate with our parents in a variety of ways. That includes PTA’s and PTO’s, various

school and system-wide committees, parent conferences, parent information programs, room parents, school support/booster or-ganizations, student performances, School Messenger (telephone messages), mcpss.com, Facebook, Twitter, mcpssTV and the new MCPSS app.

Secure Learning Environment: All schools have approved safety plans and security cameras. The district employs 12

school resource officers.

Health and Nutri-tion: We were the first school system

in Alabama to have all schools meet the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge by serving nutritious meals and promoting physical activities.

Student Services: MCPSS provides school nurses, coun-

selors and other social ser-vices. Our buses transport 26,000 students daily and serve students who live at least two miles from school, designated special educa-tion students, and students who transfer into any of our Signature Academies.

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It Starts With Us

ACT Aspire: Understanding the ACT Aspire is a parent video created by MCPSS to help parents:

• Understand the ACT Aspire • Read and interpret score reports • Help prepare child for standardized testing

It Starts With UsYou are invited to participate in a meeting with:

The Mobile County Public Schools,Business and Industry Leadership Roundtable,and the Mobile County Legislative Delegation

When: Tuesday, November 19, at 8:30 a.m. Where: Murphy High School

100 South Carlen Street, Mobile, AlabamaTopics: MCPSS Programs & Initiatives and

Current Education Interests

Refreshments: Murphy’s Culinary Arts Program

RSVP by November 15: Paulette Holley or Pam Johnsonpbholley@mcpss.com, pjohnson@mcpss.com or 251.221.4394

Annual Legislative Meeting

Getting the Word Out Starts with You

There are many positive things hap-pening in Mobile County Public Schools.

Please help us get the word out.

Log on to our website, www.mcpss.com, to stay informed.

Watch mcpssTV on Comcast Channel 15 or AT&T U-verse On Demand Chan-nel 99.

When you see or hear positive news, please tell your co-workers and friends, share it on Facebook and men-tion it on Twitter.

Workforce Development Starts With UsSignature Academies in eight of our high schools are giving stu-dents hands-on and high quality learning experiences to pique their interests in ca-reers readily available in Mobile County. • The Signature

Academies intro-duced in 2013 are Aviation and Aero-space at B.C. Rain; Manufacturing, Industry and Tech-nology at Citro-nelle; Health Career Access at Blount; and Teaching and Learning at Mary G. Montgomery.

• The Signature Academies new this year are: Coastal Studies at Bry-ant; International Studies at Murphy; Industry and Engi-neering at Theo-dore; and Maritime, Engineering and Entrepreneurship at Williamson.

All 12 of our high schools are providing more opportunities for students to excel.• One out of every

four graduates of Mobile County Pub-lic Schools receives

a college schol-arship. In 2014, graduates received a total of $72 mil-lion in offers.

• During 2013-14, our students earned 7,307 pro-fessional creden-tials. That includes Alabama Career Readiness Cer-tificates, OSHA 10-Hour safety cards, National Construc-tion Certification and licenses to be Certified Nursing Assistants.

• We have expanded the number of Ad-vanced Placement courses offered in our high schools. In 2013, our students took 2,705 exams and we had 144 Na-tional AP Scholars.

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Mobile County’s Career-Technical Education Department offers students opportunities in class and in summer camps (above) to learn job skills. Below: School board members and officials break ground on the new Aerospace Training Facility at B.C. Rain High, which opened in August of 2014.

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State-of-the-Art Classrooms Start With UsOur construction cam-paigns have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy since 1996. We have built new schools and completed major renova-tions touching each of our campuses.

Recently completed schools include the new Augusta Evans school for students with spe-cial needs, Calcedeaver Elementary near Mount Vernon, Taylor-White Elementary in west Mobile and Whitley Elemen-tary in Prichard. Projects underway include a new Citronelle High; a new Fournier-Chastang K-8 school in Trinity Gardens; and major renovations at Barton Academy, tornado-damaged Murphy High, Phillips Preparatory, Lott, Tanner Williams, Dauphin Island, and other schools.

Fiscal Responsibility Starts With UsMobile County Public Schools operates on a $669 million budget.

We spend an average of $8,433 per student.

We recently had an excel-lent audit by the Alabama Examiners of Public Ac-counts, with just minor findings at three of our 90 schools.

Graduating Ready Starts With UsSeveral years back, the com-munity set a goal for Mobile County Public Schools to graduate 80 percent of our students by 2020.

We are pleased to announce that we beat that goal by six years. Our four-year, on-time graduation rate is now 82 percent. But we are not stop-ping there. Superintendent Martha Peek set a new goal to graduate 90 percent of our students by 2017.

Our graduation rate in-creased from 75 percent in 2013; 70 percent in 2012; and 64 percent in 2011.

The increase is due in part to the creation of multiple pathways to graduation. We provide more ways for students who may not thrive in the traditional classroom setting to earn their diplo-mas. And we are challenging our students with special-ized and advanced courses.

Education Starts With UsMobile County was Ala-bama’s first public school system and we remain the largest with 59,000 students in 90 schools.

The Mobile County Public School System is the county’s largest employer with 7,500 workers.

Our schools are receiving state and national recog-nition. We have 12 Blue Ribbon Schools, which is the highest honor given to public and private schools by the U.S. Department of Education.

Since Alabama began recognizing Torchbearer schools, we have blown the rest of the state away by having more of these high-performing, high-poverty schools than any other school district. For 2014, we had four of Ala-bama’s six Torchbearers.

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12 National Blue RibbonsHolding the U.S. Department of Education’s top honor are: Austin, Booth, Calcedeaver, Council, Dodge, Hall and Spencer elementary schools; Clark-Shaw Magnet and Phillips Preparatory middle schools; and David-son, Murphy and Vigor high schools.

Torchbearers The state has recognized these schools as our Torch-bearers, 2009-present: Booth, Brazier, Calcedeaver, Collins-Rhodes, Dixon, Hall, Holloway, Indian Springs, Gilliard, Morningside, Orchard, Robbins, St. Elmo, Spencer and Wilmer elementary schools.

Innovation Starts With Us Teachers use technology daily to enhance student learning in the classroom. All of our 3,500 core class-rooms have SMARTboards and Wi-Fi secured to a level acceptable by the U.S. Department of Defense. Twenty-four schools are participating in BYOD, Bring Your Own (Technical) Device, with eight more sign-ing on soon. We have an online school, Envision.

Did you know?Mobile County’s public schools date back to 1836, when historic Barton Academy opened on Government Street in down-town Mobile. The school system is spend-ing $3.5 million to renovate Barton.

Healthy Living Starts With UsWe are the only school system in Alabama to have all campuses meet the Healthier U.S. Schools Chal-lenge by serving more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and by promoting physical activity. We are now serving breakfast and lunch free of charge to all students with USDA funding.