Belton ISD reports STAR Renaissance baseline: reading slightly above norms, math growth lags
Assistant Superintendent Gabby Nino told trustees that beginning‑of‑year STAR Renaissance screening shows 52% of students at or above the norm in reading and about 44% on track in math; the district set an 80% growth‑by‑2031 target and emphasized these initial scores are diagnostic baselines rather than summative judgments of instruction.
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Assistant Superintendent Gabby Nino presented Belton ISD’s beginning‑of‑year STAR Renaissance data and described the screener’s function as a diagnostic baseline to set individual growth projections. Nino cautioned that these data are "a dipstick" and should not be interpreted as a summative judgment of instruction so early in the year.
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