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2023–2024 Award Winners

Oxford Preparatory School is thrilled to announce the following 2023–2024 award winners who were honored at the Griffinscape24 retreat on March 8.

Emily, Jon, and Meredith standing together
  • Lower School Teacher of the Year: Mrs. Emily Shearin (3rd Grade Reading)
  • Upper School Teacher of the Year: Mr. Jon Juntunen (Health and Physical Education)
  • Support Staff of the Year: Meredith Huffaker (School Nurse)

Congratulations to all!

Jillian Lea Stone - Park Scholarship Winner
Jillian Lea Stone

Jillian Lea Stone, daughter of Matthew and Tiffany Stone, has received the prestigious North Carolina State University Park Scholarship. Jillian is 1 of 35 scholars selected in 2024 from an extremely competitive applicant pool of more than 3,200 students. Jillian is the first Oxford Prep student to receive the Park Scholarship.

The Park Scholarship provides a four-year, fully funded educational experience for students who excel in the following four areas: scholarship, leadership, character, and service. The NC State Park Scholarships Program covers everything for Jillian, including tuition, room and board, books, technology, and enrichment activities.

Jillian will graduate with Oxford Preparatory School’s class of 2024 with Summa Cum Laude distinction. Additionally, she will graduate from Vance-Granville Community College with her associate of arts degree, where she is within the top 10% of the VGCC graduating class.

Jillian is heavily involved in the arts programs at Oxford Preparatory School. She is a member of the audition-based play production class where she played Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Jillian is the first chair cellist in string orchestra where she has taught six underclassmen how to play the cello, arranged pieces, and conducted the group. Lastly, Jillian has been a member of the school’s audition based choir, concert choir, for three years, and she is the alto section leader.

Outside of OPS arts, Jillian is heavily involved in SGA, and she is the student body president, a student representative on the OPS board of directors, the first student intern at ACIM food bank, Tri-M vice-president, a member of the Beta Club and the VGCC community band, and she was on the swim and soccer teams. In her free time, Jillian enjoys making jewelry and selling it locally, as well as working at camp Oak Hill. Jillian plans to double major in philosophy of law and natural resources at North Carolina State University this fall. Congratulations, Jillian!

Oxford Prep Continues to Demonstrate Outstanding Academic Outcomes During the 2022–2023 School Year
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM OXFORD PREPARATORY SCHOOL Oxford Preparatory School exceeded state growth expectations while earning the highest (tied) school performance score (80) and the highest % of graduates that met the ACT UNC/Workkeys composite minimum (64.6%) out of traditional public schools and charter schools in Franklin, Granville, Vance, and Warren Counties during the previous 2022 - 2023 school year.

With the recent release of student performance results from 2022–23 school year, results for Oxford Preparatory School (OPS) once again revealed outstanding academic outcomes. The accountability report for the 2022–23 school year is the second since 2018–19 to feature all components of the state’s accountability framework, including the calculation of school performance grades, in which Oxford Prep received an overall school performance grade of “B – 80”, the highest in school’s history since opening in 2013. In addition, Oxford Prep exceeded overall school academic growth expectations.

Oxford Preparatory School earned the highest (tied) school performance score (80) and the highest percent of graduates that met the ACT UNC/WorkKeys composite minimum (64.6%) out of traditional public schools and charter schools in Franklin, Granville, Vance, and Warren Counties.  

“We are thrilled about the promising results that provide strong evidence that we are closing achievement gaps,” OPS Executive Director Andrew Swanner remarked. While statewide EOG/EOC performance in all subjects in statewide performance showed sizable achievement gaps (31 points between White and Black students, 24 points between White and Hispanic students, and 29 points between Non-Economically Disadvantaged Students and Economically Disadvantaged Students), Oxford Prep student performance revealed far smaller achievement gaps (6 points between White and Black students, 4 points between White and Hispanic students, and 12 points between Non-Economically Disadvantaged Students and Economically Disadvantaged Students).

“These outstanding outcomes are a result of the efforts of our faculty/staff, leadership team, board of directors, students, and parents that have bought into our college-prep mission and made a serious academic commitment.  I couldn’t be more proud of our school community that has overcome so many of the obstacles that we have faced during these past few years,” Swanner remarked. “We are continuing to make additional investments and improvements to address any learning loss as a result of the obstacles during the past few years. We hope to improve upon these outstanding results to continue to demonstrate that our school is an excellent college-prep public charter school benefiting our community.”