Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1996 Page: 3 of 14
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Grulla Elementary is true
success story in Starr County
Rio Grande City High School Marketing Education teacher Constancia B. Pena's
students made Christmas wreaths out of newspapers. Shown displaying some are (L-
R) Enrique Cantu, Alissa CruEsmeralda Oyervidez, Mayra Garza, Benina Vela and
Arturo Alvirde. (RGCCISD photo)
Marketing students
create unique wreaths
Si
The Marketing Education classes
of Mrs. Constancia B. Pena at Rio
Grande City High School took a
•unique and fun task of making
Christmas wreaths out of
newspapers.
This project was done by
students in her first- and third-
period students.
The wreaths were done as a
Christmas gesture to either give
them to a teacher of their choice or
lo take home to '.heir parents or
grandparents.
The wreaths arc being displayed
at the high school lobby and at
secretary and counselors' doors.
The students participating in the
project are Arturo Alvirde, Ninfa
Bermea. Enrique Cantu, Omar
Celedon, Danny Chapa, Alissa
Cruz, Anita Flores, Charlynn
Garcia, Hugo Garcia, Monica
Garcia, Emilio Garza. Myra Garza,
Epigmenio Gonzlaez, Gilberto
Mireles, Esmeralda Oyervidez,
Linda Rios, Crispin Ruiz, Julissa
Salinas, Lizet Sauceda, Jovanna
Silva, Benina Vela, Aleida
Benavides and Porifirio Flores.
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ing it with glass cleaner.
Delaware won the title of "the First State" when it became the first
of the original states to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Cut flower stems at a long
slant. That way they will absorb
more water and stay fresh longer.
Nestled in a valley near the Rio
Grande some two miles off U.S.
83 lies the town of La Grulla.
It is a small town formed by
hard-working families with
hometown values.
One of the first things to greet
visitors coming into town is the
fenced complex holding Grulla
Elementary School, a conglomerate
of permanent buildings and
portables housing more than 1,000
students in grades Pre-kindergarten
through fifth grade.
The school's main building is
well-used. A walk down its halls
produces smells only related to old-
fashioned learning — chalk,
blackboards, cleaning liquids and
musty hard work.
The hard work produced by
Grulla Elementary School students
paid off in a big way this year
since the school has been thrice
blessed with awards and honors
bestowed upon it.
First, Grulla Elementary School
received recognized status from the
state for its students performance
on the Texas Assessment of
Academic Skills tests last year.
Grulla had more than 70 percent
of its students pass all three
sections of the TAAS (reading,
math and writing) in 1995.
In fact, scores also increaseo irom
the year before in grades 3-5 in all
seven sections except one.
Furthermore, The school also
received positive publicity from a
well-know magazine.
Texas Monthly magazine, which
has a circulation figure in the
hundreds of thousands and is
distributed nation-wide, gave GES
three stars out of a possible four in
the article entitled "Our Best
Schools."
The three stars were earned since
GES students did so well on the
TAAS exams.
Grulla Elementary School was
the only campus in the Rio Grande
City school district to receive the
recognition.
Grulla Elementary was
recognized at the 1996 Texas
Migrant Education Conference on
Nov. 22 at the South Padre Island
Convention Centre.
The school was honored (or
achieving success with migrant
students in the area of attendance,
promotion, graduation and in
passing all sections of the Texas
Assessment of Academic Skills
(TAAS) test.
The school received a
presentation at a special award
luncheon in honor of recognized
campuses throughout Texas.
"We're honored and proud of our
students," said Principal Rose M.
Pefia. "The accomplishments of
our migrant students are
tremendous."
The principal praised the school's
staff for their hard work.
"They worked with the students
very hard. The commitment that
the teachers have shown is great.
The dedication of our teachers to
work with our students was there."
Grulla Elementary was
recognized as excelling in the area
of TAAS, based on the 1994-95
PEIMS data.
"We celebrate and commend your
migrant program stall for their
dedication and hard work with
students and their families," wrote
Frank Contreras, the Texas
Education Agency's director of
Migrant Education.
Grulla Elementary School is
among 218 Texa; public schools
being recognized for high levels of
performance by migrant students
on TAAS tests.
Grulla received a rating of
excelling, one of four ratings
schools were issued based on the
number of migrant students taking
the TAAS tests in grades 3 through
8 and 10 and their performance on
the examination. Schools were
rated as either exceptional,
excelling, promising or
acknowledged, based on their
migrant students' TAAS
performance.
To be rated as excelling, Grulla
Elementary had to have at least 10
migrant students taking all sectors
of the TAAS and 70 percent
passing each section.
Much of the credit for the
school's success can be given to
Ms. Pena, a woman generating
smiles and hugs for her kids as she
walks down the halls.
Ms. Pefia has taken the large
school's population by the hand
and led it down the road to success.
The students, although not
usually coming from well-off
families, are regularly succeeding
against the odds.
The school is finally reaping the
rewards and recognition it so
rightly deserves.
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Top row 1-r: Orlando Rodriguez,
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Not pictured are Calixtro
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