Fremont City Schools officials reported a positive year for special education and a near‑complete administrative transition of services from the previous Educational Service Center (ESC).

At the July meeting, Director of Student Services Jim Boss told the board the district received a "perfect score" on the special‑education compliance rating and met annual indicators for timely evaluations, appropriate service locations, transition services for students age 14 and older, graduation rates and dropout rates for students with disabilities. "I can report to you 100%. That's the number because that's the goal," Boss said.

The district's special‑education profile showed areas for growth in assessment results for students with disabilities, Boss said, and staff will continue work to improve those outcomes. He credited classroom staff and families for the successes. "At the end of the day, that's about our staff. That's the work that they do every day in the classroom with our students," he said.

Boss also described work to transition programs and positions from the prior ESC to the district's new ESC arrangement, saying the process has been "incredibly, incredibly smooth." As part of that work, Fremont hired a preschool through fifth‑grade special‑education coordinator to replace a position previously provided by the ESC. The coordinator, identified in board materials as Bridal Feist, has roughly 20 years of early‑childhood and special‑education experience and was previously employed at Old Fort Schools; Boss said she lives locally and has already begun work to reestablish preschool programming disrupted by the ESC change.

The board thanked Boss and district staff for the transition work and for the special‑education results. No formal board action was required for the update, which appeared as part of the superintendent's report and preceded action to approve district handbooks.