District leaders briefed the board on recent performance trends for Regents and Regents-aligned exams and warned that state assessment changes complicate year-to-year comparisons. Staff said the January 2026 ELA Regents will be administered in the same format as the previous year for Massapequa students, giving the district an apples-to-apples comparison for that administration. They also noted ongoing changes to some Regents and Regents-adjacent exams that could affect comparability in later years.\n\nAdministrators reported a dip in January 2025 mastery rates for ELA and said they expect targeted professional development and curriculum work to yield improvement in the January 2026 administration. The board and staff discussed setting mastery targets (a board member proposed an aspirational 80 percent mastery in three years), but staff cautioned that single-year numerical targets are difficult to set because of changes in the assessments and recommended tracking three-year trends and interim goals instead.\n\nOn math, staff described a district focus on keeping students in advanced pathways (for example, students who take Algebra in eighth grade) and on tracking the long-term math courses taken by accelerated students. Staff noted high pass rates in algebra for both accelerated and non-accelerated students (the transcript reports a 97 percent pass rate for algebra students). They recommended monitoring geometry and algebra II mastery rates and suggested modest multi-year percentage improvements rather than large annual jumps, given exam changes and cohort variability.