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Brazosport ISD reports mixed STAR results; district met early‑literacy target, math efforts to expand fifth‑grade instruction
Summary
District staff told the board that Brazosport ISD met its third‑grade literacy target for 2025 while numeracy goals remain short of the district’s 2026 targets; administrators proposed increasing fifth‑grade instructional minutes and other supports to close gaps.
Brazosport ISD district staff reported preliminary STAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) and college, career and military readiness (CCMR) measures to the board and described targeted steps to improve student performance.
The district met its local early literacy target for 2025: third‑grade literacy performance at the "meets grade level" standard reached the district target of 58 percent, and the district outperformed the state average in several elementary grade levels, the presentation said.
Early numeracy remains an area of concern. The district’s five‑year goal calls for third‑grade numeracy to increase from 47 percent to 63 percent by June 2026; the most recent results showed improvement from 53 to 56 percent but short of the 2025 and 2026 targets. Presenter Jay Cole, district curriculum leader, said Brazosport ISD continued to outperform the state by double‑digit percentage points in some elementary grades but has not yet reached the local numeracy benchmarks.
Cole and other staff identified a recurring pattern across grades: students outperform the state in third and fourth grade, slip in fifth grade, and typically recover by eighth grade. Cole said the district attributes the dip in part to limited instructional time in fifth grade and proposed staffing and scheduling changes to increase fifth‑grade math and reading instruction to about 90 to 120 minutes daily. "We plan to expand our implementation of scribe tools to better identify students' learning gaps and provide targeted professional development for teachers," Cole said.
The district also reported progress on CCMR goals. The board goal calls for an increase from 58 percent to 70 percent of graduates meeting CCMR indicators by 2026; the district target for the 2025 graduates was 68 percent. Cole said preliminary data and campus monitoring indicate the district expects to meet or exceed the 2025 target and noted that the state raised the accountability threshold for an "A" rating on CCMR from 60 percent to 88 percent.
Board members discussed operational supports tied to these goals. Trustees praised efforts to increase freshman credit attainment — the presentation noted more than 90 percent of freshmen at both high schools earned six or more credits this year — and discussed plans to require CCMR progress before granting seniors off‑periods. Trustees asked for more granular data on students just below credit thresholds; staff agreed to provide breakouts for follow‑up review.
The presentation was a report only; the board received the data and discussed next steps for curriculum, professional development and scheduling changes that will be incorporated into the district improvement plan for board review.
