PME Newsletter

STAAR tests are an important part of Texas' educational system, and while they help us gauge your child's academic progress, we want to remind you that these tests are just one way of measuring their growth.

Testing Dates: April 14 - Reading , April 21 - 5th grade Science, and April 28 - Math.

Encourage your child to get a good night’s sleep before the test and have a healthy breakfast the day of. A calm, positive mindset can make a big difference. Please ensure your child arrives on time on each testing day. We understand that testing can cause anxiety for some students. Please know that we are here to support them every step of the way. If your child has accommodations, we are committed to ensuring they receive the necessary support.

We are proud of all the hard work your child has put in this year, and we are confident that they will do their best. Thank you for your continued support in helping them succeed.

Attached you will find a STAAR Resource Newsletter with resources and tools for families to learn more regarding STAAR testing.

Autism Acceptance Month celebrates and honors the experiences and identities of Autistic individuals. It emphasizes understanding, inclusion, and support, moving beyond awareness towards meaningful acceptance. Autism Acceptance Month recognizes that Autism is more than a diagnosis—it is identity, community, and a lived experience that encompasses both challenges and triumphs.

You might notice that some organizations call it Autism Awareness Month while others call it Autism Acceptance Month. Both names refer to the same April observance, but the distinction between the two words - awareness and acceptance - carries real weight.

Here is the short version: "awareness" means knowing autism exists. "Acceptance" means understanding, including, and valuing autistic people as they are, without trying to change them or fix them.

Dear PME Families,

I am Feno Pearson, the Club Director here at the Boys & Girls Club at Presidential Meadows Elementary, and I have some exciting news to share! We are currently looking to grow our Club family and wanted to highlight the incredible, year-round opportunities available to your students—all at no cost to you.

The Boys & Girls Club provides a FREE high-quality childcare experience every school day from 2:45 PM to 5:45 PM. This isn't just a temporary promotion; it is a permanent resource for our PME community.

By enrolling your child, they gain immediate access to our premier programming, including:

• Junior Chefs Program: Students in grades 2–5 can join our culinary adventure in the school cafeteria for tasty fun and hands-on lessons.
• Art Workshop: We are currently getting creative and building our very own Easter baskets!
• E-Sports & STEM: Engaging exploration into digital literacy and career pathways.
• Automatic Break Enrollment: Once you are a member, you automatically gain enrollment into our Summer, Spring, and Fall break camps!

Our mission is to provide a safe, productive environment where K-5th graders can excel in academics, character, and leadership. Whether it’s sports, cooking, or artistic expression, there is a place for every child here at the Club.

Ready to join? You can sign up right at the Club door during afternoon pick-up! Please note that for our cooking program, registration closes this Friday.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly at 737-329-3907 or via email at feno.pearson@bgcaustin.org. We can’t wait to welcome your Junior Chefs and young leaders to the program!

Best regards,

Feno Pearson

Club Director Boys & Girls Club at Presidential Meadows Elementary

13252 George Bush St, Manor, TX 78653

Estimadas familias de PME:

Soy Feno Pearson, Director del Club aquí en el Boys & Girls Club de la Primaria Presidential Meadows, ¡y tengo noticias emocionantes para compartir! Actualmente buscamos hacer crecer nuestra familia del Club y queremos destacar las increíbles oportunidades disponibles para sus estudiantes durante todo el año, todo sin costo alguno para usted.

El Boys & Girls Club ofrece una experiencia de cuidado infantil de alta calidad GRATUITA todos los días escolares de 2:45 PM a 5:45 PM. Esto no es solo una promoción temporal; es un recurso permanente para nuestra comunidad de PME.

Al inscribir a su hijo/a, obtendrá acceso inmediato a nuestra programación de primer nivel, que incluye:

• Programa de Mini Chefs: Los estudiantes de 2º a 5º grado pueden unirse a nuestra aventura culinaria en la cafetería escolar para divertirse y aprender de forma práctica.
• Taller de Arte: ¡Actualmente nos estamos poniendo creativos construyendo nuestras propias canastas de Pascua!
• E-Sports y STEM: Exploración interesante sobre alfabetización digital y trayectorias profesionales.
• Inscripción Automática en Vacaciones: Una vez que sea miembro, ¡obtendrá automáticamente la inscripción para nuestros campamentos de verano, primavera y otoño!

Nuestra misión es proporcionar un entorno seguro y productivo donde los estudiantes de K-5º puedan sobresalir en lo académico, el carácter y el liderazgo. Ya sea a través de los deportes, la cocina o la expresión artística, hay un lugar para cada niño aquí en el Club.

¿Listos para unirse? ¡Puede inscribirse directamente en la puerta del Club durante la hora de salida por la tarde! Tenga en cuenta que para nuestro programa de cocina, las inscripciones cierran este viernes.

Si tiene alguna pregunta, no dude en comunicarse conmigo directamente al 737-329-3907 o por correo electrónico a feno.pearson@bgcaustin.org. ¡Estamos ansiosos por darles la bienvenida a nuestros Mini Chefs y jóvenes líderes al programa!

Atentamente,

Feno Pearson

Director del Club Boys & Girls Club en Presidential Meadows Elementary

13252 George Bush St, Manor, TX 78653

Friday, April 3rd is a District Holiday. All Manor ISD campuses and offices will be closed.

Monday, April 6th is a student holiday/staff professional development day.

Manor ISD will begin enrolling for PK 3 & 4 on April 1st. Kickoff Event is occuring at Wildhorse Elementary, where families will receive assistance with online registration.

Required Documents for Manor ISD:

These documents will be uploaded into Skyward as part of the new student online application:

• Student’s original, certified birth certificate

• Proof of address (light, gas, water bill, lease or contract)

• Proof of income from the last 30 days

• Student’s Immunization records

• Parent/guardian’s photo ID

• Student’s Social Security Card- If applicable

Campuses Offering Pre-K 3:

• Blake Manor Elementary
• Oak Meadows Elementary

Campuses Offering Pre-K 4:

(Children who are zoned to ShadowGlen will attend Pre-K at Presidential Meadows Elementary.)

• Blake Manor Elementary
• Bluebonnet Trail Elementary
• Decker Elementary
• Lagos Elementary
• Oak Meadows Elementary
• Pioneer Crossing Elementary
• Presidential Meadows Elementary

We are excited to invite you to our final PTA meeting of the 2025-2026 school year!

Please join us on Wednesday, April 8th, at 6:00 pm for important school updates from our principal, Ms. Valiza; 2026 - 2027 PTA officer elections; preparations for our end-of-year events; and a celebration of everything we’ve accomplished together. This meeting will be in-person.

Your voice and involvement make our community strong. We hope to see you there!

Thank you for your continued support!

Please remember that this is only for families with no students currently enrolled in Manor ISD.

Follow these two steps to get started:

Step 1: Create a Skyward New Student Enrollment Account

Step 2: Complete the NEW student application

Required Documents for Manor ISD:

These documents will be uploaded into Skyward as part of the new student online application:

• Student’s original, certified birth certificate

• Proof of address (light, gas, water bill, lease or contract)

• Proof of income from the last 30 days for all members of the family

• Student’s Immunization records

• Parent/guardian’s photo ID

• Student’s Social Security Card, optional

• Report card/transcript/withdrawal from previous school, needed for class placement (if applicable)

May 1 Lunch Hero Day

May 4-8 Teacher Appreciation Week

May 6 Nurse's Day

May 28 Last Day of School-Early Release at 11:30am!

More information to come on End of Year celebrations and awards.

April is a good time to check in on how your child is managing stress, worry, and anxiety.

Daybreak Health is sharing a short, clinician-led resource on how families can recognize the signs of anxiety and use simple, effective strategies — like deep breathing, predictable routines, and grounding techniques — to help kids cope. Click on photo.

Our district is proud to partner with Daybreak Health to offer teletherapy for students ages 5-19 at no cost to families.

What is Daybreak?

¿Que es Daybreak?

Dear Parent:

Presidential Meadows Elementary School is sharing this information about the district and your child’s campus with you as part of its obligations under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

Federal Report Cards for the state, the district, and each of the district’s campuses are now available on the district’s website at this link: https://www.manorisd.net/ or are also available on the Texas Education Agency’s website at: https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/accountability/academic-accountability/performance-reporting/federal-report-cards.

Information on these 2024-2025 report cards includes:

Part (i): General Description of the Texas State Accountability System

I. the minimum number of students that the State determines are necessary to be included in each of the subgroups of students for use in the accountability system;

II. the long-term goals and measurements of interim progress for all students and for each of the subgroups of students;

III. the indicators used to meaningfully differentiate all public schools in the State;

IV. the State’s system for meaningfully differentiating all public schools in the State, including—

(aa) the specific weight of the indicators in such differentiation;

(bb) the methodology by which the State differentiates all such schools;

(cc) the methodology by which the State differentiates a school as consistently underperforming for any subgroup of students; and

(dd) the methodology by which the State identifies a school for comprehensive support and improvement;

V. the number and names of all public schools in the State identified by the State for comprehensive support and improvement or implementing targeted support and improvement plans;

VI. the exit criteria established by the State, including the length of years established.

Part (ii): Student Achievement by Proficiency Level

I. This section provides information on student achievement on the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) performance for mathematics, reading/ELA, and science by grade level and proficiency level for the 2024-25 school year. These results include all students tested, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset.

Part (iii)(I): Academic Growth and Graduation Rate

I. This section provides information on students’ academic growth for mathematics and reading/ELA for public elementary schools and secondary schools without a graduation rate, for the 2024-25 school year. These results include all students tested, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset.

II. This section provides information on high school graduation rates for the class of 2024. The six-year graduation rates for the class of 2023 will be updated in March 2026.

Part (iv): English Language Proficiency

I. This section provides information on the number and percentage of English learners achieving English language proficiency based on the 2025 Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) data.

Part (v): School Quality or Student Success (SQSS)

I. This section provides information on school quality or student success, which is college, career and military readiness (CCMR) for high schools and average performance rate of the three STAAR performance levels of all students, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset, for elementary and secondary schools without a graduation rate.

Part (vi): Goal Meeting Status

I. This section provides information on the progress of all students and each student group toward meeting the long-term goals or interim objectives on STAAR academic performance, federal graduation rate, and English learners’ language proficiency. (Not applicable to district and state report cards)

Part (vii): STAAR Participation

I. This section provides the percentage of students assessed and not assessed on STAAR for mathematics, reading/ELA, and science for the 2024-25 school year.

Part (viii): Civil Rights Data

I. The section provides information from the 2021-22 Civil Right Data Collection (CRDC) surveys, submitted by school districts to the Office for Civil Rights, on measures of school quality, climate, and safety, including counts of in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, school-related arrests, referrals to law enforcement, chronic absenteeism (including both excused and unexcused absences), incidences of violence, including bullying and harassment.

II. This section provides information from the 2021-22 CRDC surveys, submitted by school districts to the Office for Civil Rights, on the number of students enrolled in preschool programs and accelerated coursework to earn postsecondary credit while still in high school.

Part (ix): Teacher Quality Data

I. This section provides information on the professional qualifications of teachers, including information disaggregated by high- and low-poverty schools on the number and percentage of (I) inexperienced teacher, principals, and other school leaders; (II) teachers teaching with emergency or provisional credentials; and (III) teachers who are not teaching in the subject or field for which the teacher is certified or licensed.

Part (x): Per-pupil Expenditure

I. This section provides information on the per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and actual non-personnel expenditures, disaggregated by source of funds, for each school district and campus for the preceding fiscal year.

Per-pupil Expenditure for the 2025 fiscal year will be updated by June 30th, 2026.

Part (xi): STAAR Alternate 2 Participation

I. This section provides information on the number and percentage of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who take STAAR Alternate 2, by grade and subject for the 2024-25 school year.

Part (xii): Statewide National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

I. This section provides results on the state academic assessments in reading and mathematics in grades 4 and 8 of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, compared to the national average of such results.

Part (xiii): Cohort Rate of Graduates Enrolled in Postsecondary Education

I. This section provides information on the cohort rate at which students who graduated from high school in the 2022-23 school year enrolled in the 2023-24 academic year in (I) programs of public postsecondary education in Texas; (II) programs of private postsecondary education in Texas; and (III) programs of postsecondary education outside Texas.

Part (xiv): Additional Information – Chronic Absenteeism

I. This section provides information on the Chronic Absenteeism per EDFacts definition: percent of unduplicated number of K – 12 students enrolled in a school for at least 10 days and absent for 10% or more days during the 2023-24 school year.

Part (xv): Section 1003 Fund

I. This section provides a list of all the local educational agencies and schools that received funds under Section 1003, including the amount of funds each school received, and the types of strategies implemented in each school with such funds for the 2023-24 school year.

Section 1003 Funds for the 2024-25 school year will be updated by June 30th, 2026.

Part (xvi): Counts of First Year Englisher Learners Excluded from the State Accountability

I. This section provides number of recently arrived English learners exempted from one administration of the reading/language arts assessments and whose results are excluded from the 2024-25 State accountability.

Myrna Roos, Assistant Principal

Email: pme@manorisd.net
Website: https://presidentialmeadows.manorisd.net/
Phone: 512-278-4225