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RSU 04 end-of-year data show mixed assessment results; district plans curriculum review and attendance push
Summary
District staff presented spring assessment, behavior and attendance data showing improvements on early-literacy measures but ongoing attendance and behavior concerns. Leaders proposed dual growth-and-proficiency goals, a multi-year curriculum review and more centralized attendance work for 2025–26.
Shelly Mogoll, the district’s director of curriculum, assessment and instruction, presented RSU 04’s end-of-year academic and behavioral data and outlined next steps for the 2025–26 school year.
Mogoll told the school board that while not all schools met their district growth goals on the NWEA, the percentage of students meeting individual growth targets was “up or either level or up in every school” on the reading assessment. She cautioned the board that year‑to‑year comparisons are complicated when student populations change from one year to the next.
The presentation highlighted diagnostic early‑literacy results that Mogoll said show clearer year‑over‑year progress. On DIBELS (a phonics and foundational‑skills assessment), she reported that 54 percent of kindergartners at Libby Tozier were proficient on letter‑naming fluency this spring and that 38 percent of Sabattus Primary School (SPS) first graders were proficient in nonsense‑word…
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