Randy Mitchell During The Regular Meeting Of The Allen Board Of Education Held November 11th, High School/junior High Principal Steve Butcher Said Allen Students Who Attend College After Graduation Have Been Successful And Done Well. Al

During the regular meeting of the Allen Board of Education held November 11th, High School/Junior High Principal Steve Butcher said Allen students who attend college after graduation have been successful and done well.

All board members were present, along with Superintendent Jeff Hiatt, Butcher, and Treasurer and Minutes Clerk Brenda Robertson. Butcher delivered the annual, state required “Remediation and Dropout Report.”

During fiscal year 2024, Allen Public Schools did not have any dropouts, which, Superintendent Jeff Hiatt said, is great news.

The remediation report was from fiscal year 2023 as that is the latest data from the Oklahoma regents of higher education. The report shows in 2021-22, Allen’s senior class had an average ACT score of 16.5 with all 29 seniors taking the test.

Butcher said Allen had nine students go on to college from that class and those nine students averaged a 3.19 GPA their freshman year which was this highest freshmen GPA in Pontotoc County.

Butcher went on to say that Allen students that attend college after graduation have been successful and done well. Of those nine students that attended college, only one student had to take a remediation class due to ACT test scores.

Hiatt gave an update on the roof situation.

“We are on the last building — the auditorium — and are expected to finish up next week. This has been going on since July 1st. Every building on campus has all brandnew roofs along with all new guttering and down spouts. Every building now matches as all buildings have the same colors and black accent — Black and Gold. This is great as we had numerous buildings that were at the end of their life and were going to have to be replaced. We were able to also put up awnings on all entrances to buildings.”

Hiatt also spoke about updates to the softball and baseball facilities.

“We have added press boxes at each location,” Hiatt said. “We are fixing some gates and fences at the baseball field. At the softball field, we added shading to the grandstands and built a batting/pitcher cage. We plan to fix up the concession and lockerroom area as well. We also added new security gates around campus replacing a lot of broken and outdated gates and adding new gates to secure our campus for our students.”

Consent Agenda

The board approved the consent agenda, which included the minutes of the October 14, 2024, regular meeting; the fiscal year 20242025 purchase orders and encumbrances: general fund numbers 205 through 224 ($50,861.46); building fund numbers 40 through 43 ($14,871); child nutrition fund number 38 ($1,500); building bond fund number 3 ($455,100); treasurer’s report; activity fund report; travel request -- TR-14 (baseball clinic); fundraisers (JH/ HS Faculty); and 2025 Calendar Year Board Meeting Dates and Payroll dates.

Action Items

The board approved the Indian Education Program Policies and Procedures for fiscal year 2025. Each year, the district is required to update and amend their Indian Policies and Procedures. Allen partners with Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation in looking at the policies and procedures.

Executive Session Upon returning from executive session, the board approved Lacy Williamson as the assistant E-Sports coach assisting the head coach Chat Hayes for the remainder of this school year.