Carson City School District Superintendent Fielding updated trustees on the district's four-year strategic plan "Power Carson 2027" at the July 22 meeting, presenting a quarterly snapshot of agreed success standards and early-year data.

Why it matters: trustees received the district's current metrics across the plan's goals — exceptional staff, student learning, family engagement, healthy generations, and community partnership — including recruitment measures, staff survey sentiment, volunteer ratios, and co‑/extracurricular participation.

Fielding said staff selected a compact set of success standards and have been building the data-collection processes since the 2022-23 baseline year. For the goal "Exceptional staff," the district reported an average of 10.5 applicants per vacancy (up from ~9 the prior year), and an indicator that now reads roughly 86.8% of vacancies attracted at least three qualified candidates (up from 82% in the earlier baseline). On staff morale, the district's end-of-year survey (JAC survey) found 96% of respondents positively agreed at varying levels with the statement "CCSD is a good place to work."

On family engagement, staff presented a simple proxy: the ratio of approved volunteers to district enrollment, which moved slightly upward year over year. For student engagement, the district reported 41.6% of secondary students participating in co‑curricular or extracurricular activities (32.5% when counting K–12), a new metric district staff said they can now generate from the student information system though they plan further data clean-up and validation.

On community partnerships, staff said the district identified approximately 127 community partners in the latest inventory, up from about 109 the prior year; staff indicated a new vendor/platform is planned to better track partners going forward.

Fielding said academic metrics tied to student outcomes will be added to the next quarterly updates as state assessment and other accountability data become available. Trustees were generally favorable about the report and asked a few procedural questions about future community-connection meetings that will highlight CTE programs in September.

No action was taken; this was an informational update. Staff said they will return with fall data that will include additional academic indicators and recommended refinements to reporting.