Superintendent Dr. Fields told the Board of Education on Tuesday that a district survey and a Sept. 30 public forum produced mixed feedback on the 2018 district restructuring and that two areas — academic achievement and fiscal efficiency — stood out as needing deeper examination.

"After reviewing the data, specifically the academic and graduation rate, to what extent do you feel restructuring has improved learning and achievement for students, you will see that 51.5% stated that there was a decline," Dr. Fields said as he summarized survey responses collected after the September forum. He said 67.1 percent of survey respondents were district staff and that 54.8 percent of respondents reported more than 10 years of involvement with the district.

Dr. Fields said 204 respondents indicated they did not see increased fiscal efficiency, another stated goal of restructuring; roughly one‑third of respondents rated early‑education progress as the most improved goal area, while 49.7 percent said academic achievement requires the most improvement. He told the board the raw survey data and chart‑board comments from the Sept. 30 meeting would be made public and invited trustees and community members to review the materials.

Board members asked how the board should proceed. Dr. Fields suggested the leadership team focus on academic achievement and fiscal efficiency as the immediate follow‑up areas. He advised trustees that timing for any decision would depend on the magnitude of change under consideration: a late January deadline for near‑term changes or a May decision at the latest if the board wanted to hold to a decision window for the 2026–27 school year. "If the board is looking at this as more so, 'Hey, we wanna keep things as they are for the 26‑27 school year,' I would say at the absolute latest there would need to be some hard decisions made around May," he said.

Trustees and staff stressed the need to collect more community input and to avoid rushing implementation steps. Several board members urged residents to complete the anonymous survey, which Dr. Fields said will remain open. Trustees said they will continue deliberations and asked administration to return with targeted analysis on academic measures, graduation rates and financial efficiency metrics to support any potential policy or operational changes.

No formal action to change the restructuring was taken at the meeting; Dr. Fields asked the board for direction on next steps and told trustees the leadership team will continue to gather data, prepare follow‑up analyses and support community engagement leading up to a potential decision window in early 2026.