At the June Governing Board meeting, the Board received the year-end update on progress toward achieving Academic Goal #1 and interim goals 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.

Fourth Grade AASA ELA Proficiency

Academic Goal #1

The percent of fourth-grade students who score at Proficiency or higher on AASA ELA will increase from 20% on Aug. 2023 to 45% by Aug. 2028.

Data is trending away from the goal and is off track.

Fourth-grade ELA improved on AASA, rising from 21.7% in 2024 to 24.9% in 2025. However, there was a dip in performance in 2026 to 23.2%, 10 points off of the target goal of 33%.

Interim Goal #1.1

The percentage of second-grade students reading at or above 76 words per minute will increase from 56% to 70% by the end of the year, as measured by the Star Oral Reading Fluency Assessment on a Grade 2 Passage.

Although progress was made, this goal was not met.

At the start of the school year, 41% of second-grade students were performing at or near benchmark on the assessment. At the time of the December benchmark testing, 49% of students were at or near the benchmark. When the school year ended, 56% of students were at or near benchmark. While there has been marked growth, we did not achieve the goal of 70% of students at or above 76 words per minute.

The teal arrow indicates our interim goal of increasing proficient students to the teal dotted line.

Interim Goal #1.2

The percentage of students performing at Proficiency or Higher on the second-grade STAR Reading Assessment will increase from 28.9% to 35% by May 2026.

This interim goal was not met.

At the start of the school year, second-grade students were performing at 28.3% proficiency on the assessment. At the time of the December benchmark testing, they were performing at 31.5% proficiency. While encouraging, they achieved only 29.5% proficiency on May's test and did not meet the goal of 35%.

Interim Goal #1.3

The percentage of students performing at minimally proficient on the second-grade STAR Reading Assessment will decrease from 59.7% to 45% by May 2026.

This interim goal was not met.

At the start of the school year, second-grade students were performing at 63.4% minimal proficiency on the assessment. At the time of the January benchmark testing, they showed improvement to 60.5% minimal proficiency. While encouraging, 61.5% performed at a minimally proficient level on May's assessment and did not meet the goal of 45%.

The black arrow indicates our interim goal of reducing minimally proficient students to below the black dotted line, and the teal arrow indicates increasing proficient students to above the teal dotted line.