Opening Items

Outreach: Families and Community

Paper applications (approximately 80) have been filled out at outreach events.
Hopefest: 25
Project Backpack: 25
National Night Out: 4
BBQ Bash: 25
Hispanic Heritage Month/Gail Borden: 4
Salvation Army Fall Fest: 1

Online applications now available. Current total: 34

2019/2020 Waitlist: 194

1.  Share successes with community, "State of the School"  (Message from the Board) Complete
2.  Promotional materials Complete
3.  Press (Test scores article)
4.  Donors (working on wish for wonder campaign with Development).

5. Open House Outreach. What is the best avenue to get this info to our hard to reach families?
(November 19): Facebook EMSA page, What's Happening in Elgin page, HAE email. Can we send to preschools? Should we do a printed piece?

We need to have paper applications uploaded by end-of-year in order to invite to January Open House. These families need additional communication.

 

ATTENDED EVENTS

1. HopeFest @ Newlife: Saturday July 27 from 10am-2pm
Needs: At least 2 full time adults. One must be Spanish speaking.
Joseph and Armida Dominguez: armjoedom@wowway.com
Thank You Trish Ortiz! We received approximately 30 student applications. All applications need a follow up phone call to confirm information. Families that identified wanting to be on the waitlist need to be uploaded into school mint.
TASKED TO:

2. Project Backpack@ECC, Saturday, August 3 from 9a.m. to 1pm
Needs: At least 3 full time adults. One must be Spanish speaking.
"Agency Registration" coming soon
Megan Highland, mhighland@elgin.edu
Thank You Sarah Said and Kimberly Shaw! We received approximately 20 student applications and made connections with neighbor agencies. All applications need a follow up phone call to confirm information. Families that identified wanting to be on the waitlist need to be uploaded into school mint.
TASKED TO:

3. National Night Out @ Spring Street, Tuesday, August 6 from 6pm to 8pm
Needs: At least 2 full time adults. One must be Spanish speaking.
(Do we add presence at Festival Park?)
ROPE Officer Heather Farrell.
Thank You Trish Ortiz and Kerry Kelly. We received approximately ___ student applications and made connections with neighbor agencies, showed local community support and built existing family relationships. All applications need a follow up phone call to confirm information. Families that identified wanting to be on the waitlist need to be uploaded into school mint.
TASKED TO:

4. Back to School, BBQ BASH @ Wing Park, Saturday, August 17 from Noon to 4PM
Needs: At least 2 full time adults. One must be Spanish speaking.
Corey Dixon, Dixon_C@cityofelgin.org
Representatives: Sarah Said, Kimberly Shaw, Kerry Kelly and Trish Ortiz?
Student ambassador participation?

5. Gail Borden Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Saturday, October 5 from 2-4:30PM
Sarah Said, Andrea Fiebig, Additional MPAC Families

6. Salvation Army Fall Fest: October 29 at 4PM.
Sarah Said and Melanie Gibb.


UPCOMING EVENTS:

7. Salvation Army Christmas Give-Away: Saturday DEC. 21st. 9am - 3pm. Need Spanish speaking volunteers at all shifts.

8. HAE Bike Give-Away: Date?
What items do we need to bring to the event? How many volunteers do we need?


OUTLETS

1. Table at Library $$
2. Summit School
3. BGCE
4. Local Churches
5. Laundromats
6. Centro
7. HAE
8. EHN
9. The Centre Preschool
10. Head Start
11. East Side Rec Centre
12. Laotian community
13. Testimonials--share on FB

OPEN HOUSES
    Fall: NOVEMBER 19, 6-7:30PM
    Winter: JANUARY 30, 6-7:30PM

Items to prepare for lottery:
• Gail Borden space rental: Tasked to —
• Paper Application upload and parent follow up: Tasked to —
• Application verification (Ensure no duplicates, ensure existing students are not in lottery, etc...): Tasked to —
• Lottery administrators: Tasked to —

Last Year's Student Demographics
13.9% Asian
14.4% African American
36.6% Hispanic
34.2% White
Free/Reduced: 46%
Homeless: 3%

Current Demographics
8% Asian (-5)
12% African American (-2.5)
40% Hispanic (+3.5)
37% White (+2.5)
2% 2 or more/Other (+2)
Free/Reduced:
Homeless:

Neighboring School Demographics
1.2% Asian
4% African American
80% Hispanic
9% White
3.2% 2 or more/Other