SWOT Analysis

The final activity of the day was to identify priority strengths,

weaknesses, opportunities and threats to drive strategic goals and
strategies. Each table team produced a SWOT analysis. All of their
work in shown below. The facilitator than examined all 5 SWOT
Products and presented a consensus SWOT to share and feedback on
between now and the September 25 meeting of the strategic plan
team.

STRENGTHS
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5
• Increasing EAV • Safety • Teacher Retention • Graduation Rate • Teacher Retention
• Safety • Peer Relationships • Student Attendance • Fiscally Responsible • Room to grow- space
• Student testing • Graduation Rate • Graduation Rate • Positive Climate • Graduation Rate
• Graduation Rate • High Quality Faculty • Safety • Room for Growth • Sports/Athletics
• School Pride and staff • Students Respectful Accomplishments
• Student Attendance • Academic • Variety and Rigor • Curriculum
• Student Opportunities Curricular courses Opportunities
Opportunities • Academic rigor • Sports and • Improve financial
• Growing tax base • Extra-Curricular extracurricular outlook
• Quality staff Activities activities • Safety
• Teacher Retention
• College Preparation

Consensus STRENGTHS: safety, graduation rate, student attendance, high

quality staff, rigorous and varied curriculum opportunities, fiscally responsible,
athletics and extra-curricular activities, space to grow, teacher retention

WEAKNESSES
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5
• Technology • Debt • Career Readiness • AP course access • Administrative
• SAT Scores • Career Readiness • Technology • AP Exams Turnover
• Math • Technology • Aging Infrastructure • SAT scores (Math) • Not being prepared
• Aging Infrastructure • Insufficient non-core • Communication of • Career Readiness for growth
• Cultural awareness courses, teachers College and Career • Communication of • Clarity of College and
and diversity/ • Achievement Gaps Expectations to College and Career Career Expectations
diversification • Cultural awareness students and parents Expectations to for students and
• Social Capital and diversity students and parents families
• Ed Fund • Consistent curricular • Technology
 expectations across • Gradual decay of
all who teach the physical resources
same course (facilities)- aging
infrastructure
• Debt

Consensus WEAKNESSES: debt management, SAT scores, mathematics,

communication of college and career expectations to students and parents,
cultural awareness and diversity, current use of and access to technology,
career readiness, achievement gaps, aging Infrastructure, administrative
turnover

OPPORTUNITIES
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5
• Improve • District improved • Future integration • Teaching life skills • Expand Early College
accountability of communication with and use of • Diversity of staff Options
students and staff parents technology to • Future integration • Evaluations leading
• Recognition and • Sensitivity training enhance teaching and use of to continued
identification of low for staff and learning technology to professional
income students • Recognition and • District improved enhance teaching development
• Study possibilities of identification of low communication with and learning • Future integration
two high schools income students parents and use of
• Progressive, • More opportunities • Improve technology to
restorative for career/military accountability of enhance teaching
disciplinary practices track students and staff and learning
• Accuracy and • Inclusion • Accuracy and analysis • Increased AP and
analysis of data for • Accuracy and analysis of data for decision- Dual Credit access
decision-making of data for decision- making • Military
• Manageable Growth making communication for
Period to plan for non-college bound
future needs students
• Future integration • Increase grant,
and use of foundation and non-
technology to traditional revenue
enhance teaching sources
and learning • Accuracy and
analysis of data for
decision-making

Consensus OPPORTUNITIES: Future integration and use of technology,

accuracy and analysis of data for decision-making, improved accountability of
students and staff, effective communication of college and career opportunities
with parents
 THREATS/CHALLENGES
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5
• Economic downturn • State funding • State and Federal • State funding • State funding
• State funding • Increasing student unfunded mandates • Increasing student • Increasing student
• General Assembly population • Increasing student population population
• Politics/Leadership • Increasing diversity population • Increasing diversity
• Increasing student • Future spending to • Future spending to • College willingness to
population address critical needs address critical needs Partner
• Having necessary • Student wellness;
personnel to meet anxiety
goals

Consensus THREATS/CHALLENGES: State funding, State and Federal unfunded

mandates, increasing student growth/population, effectively supporting an
increasingly diverse school population, future spending to address critical needs

The summary SWOT ANALYSIS IN DRAFT FORM is listed

below.
 MINOOKA HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 111 DRAFT SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS: What do we consider to be our
strengths? What advantages do we have? What
do others say our strengths are?
• Student safety
• Graduation rate
• Student attendance
• High quality staff
• Rigorous and varied curriculum
opportunities
• Fiscal responsibility,
• Athletics and extra-curricular
activities
• Land and Building space to grow
• Teacher retention
OPPORTUNITIES: What opportunities for
improvement do we know about, but have not
addressed? Where with a little work could we
change a weakness into a strength?
• Future integration and use of
technology
• Accuracy and analysis of data for
decision-making
• Improved accountability of students
and staff
• Effectively communicate college and
career readiness options with parents
WEAKNESSES: What do we consider to be our
weaknesses? What are we most criticized for or
receive the most complaints about? What do we
seem to have a hard time doing well?
• Debt management
• SAT scores
• Achievement gaps
• Mathematics achievement
• Communication of college and career
expectations to students and parents
• Cultural awareness and diversity
• Current use of and access to technology
• Career readiness
• Aging Infrastructure
• Administrative turnover
THREATS/CHALLENGES: Who or what
threatens us the most? What challenges are
coming that we must respond to? What might
block our progress?
• State funding
• State and Federal unfunded mandates
• Increasing student growth/population
• Effectively supporting an increasingly
diverse school population
• Future spending to address critical
needs