Birdville ISD’s 2017 Elementary Teacher of the Year Kristin Autrey (left) and Secondary Teacher of the Year Jennifer Cruze (right) recently spoke with the women of Delta Kappa Gamma, Theta Theta Chapter. They support public education and are passionate about teachers.
Congratulations to McKenzie “KK” Bradberry, Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning student, for her steer being named the champion steer in the Lightweight Simmental division at the State Fair of Texas.
BISD is proud to announce it has two National Merit Semifinalists and five National Merit Commended Scholars for the 2017–18 school year. Nearly 1.5 million juniors in 22,000 high schools across the country entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program last year by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Less than one percent of the nation’s high school seniors received the prestigious designation of becoming a semifinalist this year. To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
National Merit Semifinalists
Richland High School
Peyton Murrell, senior
Michael Bonnet, early graduate of RHS and now attending St. Edward’s University
Commended Scholars
Birdville High School
Nick Powell, senior
Jackson Boyd, senior
Haltom High School
Nischal Shrestha, senior
Richland High School
Grit Saichua, senior
Brianna Steelman, senior
National Hispanic Recognition Scholars
Richland High School
Rachel Kelly, senior
David Serrato, senior
The National Merit Scholarship Program will announce additional program honorees later this school year.
Red Ribbon Week is set for October 23 through October 29. Wearing and displaying the ribbons during this observance helped to present a unified and visible commitment to promote drug-free communities.
The theme for this year’s Texas Campaign goes beyond the symbolism of the red ribbon and asks our families, friends and neighbors to support Good Character, Good Choices, Drug & Bully Free.
Richland High School is proud to announce their 2017 Distinguished Alumnus is 1991 graduate, Ron White. He has served our country in the Navy Reserves, and he is now a professional speaker that has memorized all the service men’s names that died in Afghanistan. Mr. White raises money for the widows and families of those men and women that gave their lives in Afghanistan. He travels all over the country and writes from memory the names of all 2,300 soldiers in the order they died on memorial walls. View the video about Ronnie White
SAT scores for 2017 were recently released, and BISD’s composite score of 1,073 for critical reading, mathematics and writing is higher than the state average of 1,019 and the national average of 1,070. Average scores on the individual portions of the tests were:
A total of 770 BISD students took the SAT in 2017.
“High school students in BISD continue to show increases in their scores each year,” said Superintendent Dr. Darrell G. Brown. “Even though our students scored above the state and nation this year, the District is committed to continuous advancement of our students, and we will continue to implement curriculum improvement in our pre-advanced placement and advanced placement courses and content areas to improve college readiness.”
