CFB ISD trustees adopt optional fourth goal to raise fifth‑grade math proficiency

Carrollton‑Farmers Branch Independent School District trustees agreed during a board work‑study in August 2025 to add an optional fourth student‑outcome goal focused on fifth‑grade math proficiency. The board directed Superintendent Eldridge and district staff to develop specific goal‑progress measures and implementation steps and present them at upcoming meetings for board review. Trainers from Commit Partnership led the governance session that framed the decision. The trustees’ new goal calls for increasing the share of fifth‑grade students who reach the district’s proficiency threshold on an end‑of‑year, TEKS‑aligned math assessment by 2030; the precise baseline and target percentages were left blank for staff calculation and will be added when the district confirms the assessment metric. The board’s discussion included whether to target the goal to all fifth‑grade students or to focus on specific subgroups such as emergent…