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YES Prep Southwest Reflects on National Blue Ribbon Award

February 01, 2011 by Jeremy Jones

On Monday morning, YES Prep Southwest School Director Cliff Claflin was invited to sit with the other 25 Texas public schools nominated to be 2011 Blue Ribbon Schools and the 2010 Texas Blue Ribbon winners at a conference in Austin. Seeing the combination of rural, urban, suburban, elementary and secondary schools, large and small was an awesome reminder of the myriad schools out there and the success they are having with their respective student populations. Schools are nominated to be Blue Ribbon schools based on dramatic improvements sustained over 5 years or sustained high performance over 5 years. We fall in the latter category and were one of 12 schools picked in that category out of the 26. Listening to the speaker, though, announce our campus as being nominated in this category was a surreal moment because when we started out seven years ago we were far from being one of the 25 best schools out of the 8,300 public schools in Texas. Now we are lauded for that. There are no opportunities for weak links to be tolerated in a chain that is constantly pulling kids from all neighborhoods to college success. With 19 days until our first TAKS tests and only 10 days until our second round of common assessments that chain is only pulled tauter and the strength of our links that much more important. Keep up the great work as we pull even more students closer to college success!

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