The School Comprehensive Improvement Plan (SCIP) is a working document developed by each school within the district to serve as a guide for data-driven decision-making and strategic planning.  Each school's SCIP is developed with input from the school's staff and site council (school leadership team comprised of the principal, teachers, parents and other community members).   

SCIPs were originally designed to be a one-year, comprehensive plan to guide each school's continuous improvement efforts, while at the same time monitoring each school's progress toward meeting district, state and federal initiatives, goals and mandates.

In the summer of 2003, a SCIP Working Group comprised of school representatives and central office staff determined that it would be in the best interest of the Saint Paul Public Schools to move to a more targeted, strategic SCIP format. As a result, the SQR & IP Department worked with a number of district staff during the fall of 2003 to transition from a comprehensive SCIP to a more targeted, strategic SCIP format.

To learn more about the SCIP, click here and you will be taken to the Saint Paul Public Schools' SCIP website.