Reve School Analysis: Hillcrest Elementary School

Revere School Analysis
Introduction
It is important for teachers to know what the community, school, and statistics are before deciding to apply at a school. Knowing these facts, can help teachers decide whether or not the school is the best place for them to work at knowing their abilities. A teacher can use these facts to help benefit them in the interview and in the classroom. Creating a game plan to attack the educational areas in need will help make the teaching experience easier. Let’s say the teacher is applying to Hillcrest Elementary School part of the Revere School District. Exploring the community around Revere is also essential in understanding what the populations of people who go to Revere are. A teacher will need to research
Students who go to Hillcrest are from the districts of Bath and Richfield. The community of “RICHfield” is a wealthy one as suggested by its name. According to City-Data Richfield’s median household income is $76,858 compared to Ohio’s median household income of $48,081. (CITE). Richfield residents make about $28,777 more than their Ohioan neighbors. About 96.2% of people living in Richfield are white, 1.4% are Asian, and .7% are Black. CITE There is not much diversity in the community of Richfield. In 2013 the crime rate was 39.7 with a U.S. average of 261.8. The higher the number the more crime that has happened. Of what has been reported, Richfield has had no murders, rapes, or robberies since 2010 to 2013. The data only goes to 2013 so it might have changed since then. With all of this data what does this mean for a
CITE) Knowing this as a teacher can help reduce the amount of money teachers have to take out of their pockets to spend on the classroom. This can be used for updating school technology, buying more school supplies, and updating school textbooks. However, I find that the amount of funds spent in school classroom vary on the schools. Leggett school in Akron spends 73.9% of funds in their classroom, but are failing in almost every category. (CITE) One would assume that spending more funds in the classroom would raise scores. Seeing this as a teacher would make this information not as important as others. This information has many factors that play into it like the community that surrounds the school. Depending on the school, I can use community resources like the library to borrow books for my classroom. This will help my classroom if the school that I am in is not getting the resources that I need to provide a good education for my