Three Elementary Schools Receive Kindergarten Readiness System Awards

Three Los Fresnos CISD elementary schools have received the Pre-Kindergarten Center for Excellence designation by the Texas Education Agency.

Las Yescas Elementary, Dora Romero Elementary and Villareal Elementary received plaques and banners in separate presentations by Los Fresnos CISD Superintendent Gonzalo Salazar.

The Kindergarten Readiness System evaluates the effectiveness of prekindergarten, Head Start, government subsidized, and other community-based child-care programs in preparing children for kindergarten. KRS recognizes the positive impact of PreK programs with a “PreK Center of Excellence” designation.

The PreK Center of Excellence designation is considered a Gold Standard in High Quality PreK by the State of Texas.

The KRS provides parents with information that helps them make choices about a prekindergarten program and to enable them to select a program that prepares their children to be on grade level upon kindergarten entry. The program is voluntary and offered at no charge.

Every school district is required to electronically report each kindergarten student’s raw score on kindergarten beginning of the year (BOY) reading instruments each year.

The kindergarten data collected under this provision are used to evaluate the effectiveness of prekindergarten programs and certain federal or government-subsidized child care and education programs under the Kindergarten Readiness System (KRS) formerly known as the School Readiness Certification System (SRCS). School districts and open-enrollment charter schools use the FERPA-compliant web-based reporting system.