Wichita elementary school achieves some of the district's better test scores. The hallways inside Cleaveland Traditional Magnet Elementary School are so quiet you can hear the echo of your footsteps. That's because students inside the classrooms are listening and learning. And that's what Principal Tammy Breeden expects. And more time for teachers to teach translates into good scores on the state reading and math assessments, she says.
Students know learning comes first.
This school in southwest Wichita performed better on the fourth-grade math test than 102 of 132 public and private elementaries in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler counties. And it performed better than 82 of them in fifth-grade reading. Only three other Wichita schools scored better in fourth-grade math. Nine performed better in fifth-grade reading. Most of the Wichita schools with higher scores were magnets.