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Provo School Board reviews end-of-year data, highlights gaps in growth and special-education performance
Summary
At a July study session the Provo City School Board heard district leaders present correlations among NWEA, RISE/Aspire Plus and ACT results, praised pockets of high growth at several schools and flagged widening achievement gaps for students with disabilities as they progress to secondary grades.
The Provo City School Board on Tuesday reviewed the district's end-of-year assessment data and was told that overall growth rates are holding near the 50th percentile while achievement levels remain largely unchanged, meaning the district must produce higher-than-average growth to raise proficiency levels.
Superintendent Wendy Dow summarized the central findings: "When we're just what we're doing is we're making a year's worth of growth in a year, but that's not what we need if we're gonna move those proficiency levels. It has to be higher than that." She told the board the district will focus on identifying and replicating practices from schools that showed outsized growth.
Why it matters: district leaders said steady growth at the 50th percentile will maintain students' current performance but will not close proficiency…
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