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Like all charter schools, admission to Howard Street is through a lottery process. Students should apply in their fifth grade year for admission. The process is a random draw to determine who will be offered a position in our sixth grade class. A wait list is maintained so if there is an opening we can fill the position in the order of the lottery.
Applications over the last decade
Source: March lottery
Source: waitlist, updated March 2022
Howard Street was founded in 1997 and continues to offer a public education to students from all over Salem-Keizer. Our unique program offers a chance for students of all types of backgrounds to be successful in internal and external measurements.
Here are some of the traditional statistics for Howard Street.
Established 1997
Original Location : South Salem High Annex
1000+ alumni
Around 50 each year since 1997
Opened Here
Jan 6, 2020
New location: downtown Salem
95.7%
attendance in 2018-19
Oregon Average 79.6%
Source: ODE state report
We do not emphasize or prepare for the Oregon state tests yet our students consistently perform well on this standardized assessment.
We believe a strong teaching and engaging learning will allow students to do well on many different types of assessments including standardized tests.
We do not use letter grades at Howard Street so students have the opportunity to learn and grow. New skills take practice and time to develop and students should not feel bad that they “are not good” at something. Growth is key to success in learning and life.
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
75% pass state
English Language Arts
88% of 8th graders passed the state test
Oregon Average 42% (2023-24)
60% pass state
Science
Oregon Average 26% (2023-24)
60% pass state
Math
50% of 8th graders exceeded the state test
Oregon Average 29% (2023-24)
Individual Student Progress
High
Source: ODE state report card 2023-24
Source: Salem-Keizer Public Schools 2017
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How do you know if your student will do well in high school and likely graduate? Look to their middle school attendance and habits.
Research by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (2014) shows that middle school attendance and grades are greater predictors of high school AND college success than test scores or background.
Read the overview of the report here
While we do not use a standard grade point average (GPA), our proficiency scores can be used much in the same way to help parents know if their student is academically on-track.
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
