<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0MAcx9_1Go2hhFx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0MAcx9_1Go2hhFx00" width="1620" height="1080" ><figcaption>Broadmoor Elementary School Principal Timothy Scott, far left, and assistant principal Teresa Farver join staff members for a group photo as they are being recognized for improving the school’s academic performance during a Pine Bluff School District board meeting Oct. 26. (Pine Bluff Commercial/I.C. Murrell)</figcaption></figure>Broadmoor Elementary School faculty members were honored during the Pine Bluff School District’s Oct. 26 board meeting for its upward swing in academic achievement.Broadmoor’s rise from F to C in the state’s latest report card released in September earned a commendation letter from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and state Education Secretary Jacob Oliva. Staff members were introduced one by one as they walked up to the stage at the Pine Bluff High School auditorium for a photo.“We set a goal and we achieved that goal,” Broadmoor Principal Timothy Scott said. “From year 1 we focused on three principles — culture, accountability and consistency. We believed in our students. We worked hard with our students, but also we were intentional each and every day. And we believe that when scholars see that we are intentional and that we really care, they’re going to move because we really show true love, not fake love to the scholars but true love to the scholars. And with us doing those things, it has not only a true impact on the scholars, but they also believe in themselves.”Pine Bluff School District Interim Superintendent Phillip Carlock told meeting attendees he had never received a letter from the state education secretary before, calling Broadmoor’s staff trailblazers for the district.“Like we tell the scholars, don’t worry about us because we’re going to facilitate and engage with the learning, but we want you to prove it to yourself because you owe it to yourself, you owe it to your family, but also you owe it to your name, and your name carries weight,” Scott said. “The scholars took that and ran with it.”Evolution and reconstructionDuring the PBSD’s annual report to the public as part of the meeting, Carlock highlighted an “evolution and reconstruction” of the district.Carlock was hired at Pine Bluff as an assistant superintendent under Barbara Warren in 2022. He showed a comparison chart in a slide presentation that detailed, in part, the district that year was overseen by the Arkansas Department of Education at the time, school facilities such as Pine Bluff High School and Jack Robey Junior High were facing severe deterioration, and uncertified staff and lack of parent confidence led to a “chaotic climate.” Four years later, a $73.9 million high school campus replaced the one that was deteriorating, the PBSD is just 7.63 points away from a D rating under Arkansas’ education accountability formula, a Community Schools model has been adopted in several district buildings and student banks have opened at multiple locations to support literacy initiatives.The district has a student population that is 91.57% African American, 15.49% special education students and 0.98% English language learners.Current enrollment in the PBSD is 2,720, down from 2,836. Carlock reintroduced a projection chart he showed in the September board meeting that illustrated, if nothing changes in the current student population, it will drop to 2,094 by the 2035-36 school year.District staff members are calling parents of students who leave the district and asking why, Carlock said.“There are many legitimate reasons for people wanting to go to another district,” Carlock said. “A lot of them just moved out of the city of Pine Bluff, so that’s a job condition. Some want to stay here and just had a poor experience. We’re trying to do everything we can to capture them and make sure we keep them here in Pine Bluff. Every child matters and we’re trying to keep them, one by one by one.”</div></body>

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Broadmoor Elementary School faculty members were honored during the Pine Bluff School District’s Oct. 26 board meeting for its upward swing in academic achievement. Broadmoor’s rise from F to C in the state’s latest report card released in September earned a commendation letter from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and state Education Secretary Jacob Oliva. Staff members were introduced one by one as they walked up to the stage at the Pine Bluff High School auditorium for a photo.

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Broadmoor Elementary School faculty members were honored during the Pine Bluff School District’s Oct. 26 board meeting for its upward swing in academic ach

Broadmoor celebrated for academic improvement

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