Lawndale Elementary School District officials presented aggregate results from the 2025 Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and recognized 28 students who earned perfect scores at Tuesday’s board meeting. Dr. Tracy Familia, Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services, led the presentation and introduced school-level highlights and next steps.

The presentation showed modest districtwide increases in English language arts (ELA) and math and a larger gain in science, which the presenters said rose 5 percentage points. "Big round of applause for 28," Familia said as she called students forward. She told the board that of the 28 perfect scorers, 13 were perfect in ELA, 11 in math, one in science, and three students had perfect scores in both ELA and math.

The district report said overall 2025 proficiency rates for ELA and math are roughly where the district stood in 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic. At the site level, Smith, Twain and Adams surpassed 50% proficiency in ELA, the presentation said. Green and Mitchell showed notable ELA increases of 8 and 6 percentage points, respectively.

Math gains were uneven across sites but included meaningful improvements at Rogers (7 percentage points) and Green (5 percentage points). The presentation highlighted 17 percentage-point growth for Green’s third grade in math and singled out Rogers’ sixth-grade math increase (reported as an 11-point gain).

District staff described work they attribute to the gains: sustained use of diagnostic tools, teacher collaboration, common formative assessments and site-level interventions. Letty Varela, Director of Teaching and Learning, told the board the district will continue pairing teacher leaders with classroom teachers and use common formative assessments to refine Tier 1 instruction.

Sharon Osman, Director of Special Education, reviewed results for students with disabilities (SWD). Osman said students with speech and language impairment (SLI) showed a 6 percentage-point gain in ELA and a 5-point gain in math. Across all students with disabilities, the presentation reported a 5-point ELA gain and a 6-point math gain. Osman also highlighted double-digit gains at several sites for SWD: Green (15-point ELA, 11-point math), Smith (14-point math), Anderson (13-point growth), Twain (11 points) and Adams (12 points in ELA).

Board members congratulated staff and students. Trustee Burrows said, "I'm just so happy that you guys have come back with some awesome news." Trustee Morales asked the district to investigate practices at higher-growth sites to replicate successful strategies.

The SBAC presentation was provided as an information item for the board (first reading); no formal board action was taken at the meeting. Staff said a dedicated follow-up presentation on English learners is scheduled for the next month.

Ending: The board recognized the students who achieved perfect scores and staff urged continued focus on the district’s three instructional drivers and targeted interventions to sustain momentum.