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District reports strong NJGPA results; board urged to track subgroup trends
Summary
District administrators told the board that most juniors met the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA) cut scores in March, while urging follow-up on subgroup fluctuations and a fuller report later this year.
Dr. Mark Russo, the Pascack Valley Regional School District supervisor of curriculum, instruction and assessment, told the board on July 16 that the spring administration of the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA) showed the majority of juniors met the state's graduation-ready cut scores but that some subgroup results merit further monitoring.
The NJGPA "is designed to measure the extent to which students are graduation ready in ELA and mathematics," Russo said, adding that the ELA component is aligned to grade-10 standards and the mathematics component is aligned to Algebra I and Geometry standards. He told the board the assessment has been a graduation requirement for the last three graduating classes and that the district is awaiting official state guidance for the class of 2026 and beyond.
The nut of Russo's presentation was the district's reported rates of juniors meeting the district's established cut score (reported as 725): Pascack Hills: 81.7 percent in mathematics and 90.6…
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