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During Monday’s meeting of the Canyon Independent School District Board of Education, progress on West Plains High School, the first high school in the district in more than 30 years, continued.
This time, however, that progress was not related to the building or the construction site. The progress was related to the individual leading that school, and the students within the school, prior to and after the school s opening in August 2022.
Eric Gomez, currently an assistant principal at Canyon High School, was unanimously approved as the first principal of West Plains High School during Monday’s meeting. Gomez, a Dalhart native and Lubbock Christian University graduate, previously worked in Levelland ISD and Amarillo ISD.
During the first regular meeting of the Canyon Independent School District Board of Education for 2021, district officials looked back at some academic data, looking at how the district can be better in the future.
Cameron Rosser, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, presented the board with the Texas Academic Performance Report, which consists of three sections: data from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, exam, 2018-19 post secondary readiness data, as well as demographic data.
Rosser focused mainly on the post secondary readiness data, stating the district’s attendance rate was at 95.7% for the 2018-19 school year. The district’s four-year graduation rate grew to 97.7% from 95.7% in the 2017-18 school year, and 71.5% of students were deemed college, career or military ready.