OEP Awards

It just keeps getting better and better! HMS has been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as a school where students demonstrated high growth on the ACT Aspire!
We were awarded:
High Overall Growth (Statewide)
High ELA Growth (Statewide)
High Overall Growth (Northeast region)
High Math Growth (Northeast region)
High ELA Growth (Northeast region)

Awards are based on the 2022 content growth score calculated by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. These growth scores reflect how much students at the school improved from 2021 compared to how much they were expected to grow considering prior achievement. OEP recognizes schools based on Overall growth, as well as for growth in Math and English Language Arts separately.