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Lawndale reports test score gains, expands targeted classroom support and tutoring
Summary
During a district briefing, Superintendent Virginia Castro highlighted multi-year gains on state assessments and outlined expansions to MTSS, classroom coaches and tutoring programs to sustain growth.
Lawndale Elementary School District Superintendent Virginia Castro told parents and community members that districtwide assessment scores have risen over her four years in office and described specific classroom and support strategies the district is using to sustain that growth.
Castro said, “50% of our students district wide are proficient in English language arts, and 38% are proficient in mathematics. ... 33% are proficient in science.” She credited site-level gains — several with double-digit increases — and singled out work on vocabulary development and English language development (ELD) supports.
The district frames its approach under MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support). Castro said MTSS is the “umbrella that encompasses everything…
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