Chippewa Valley Montessori governance chair submits annual and strategic‑change reports urging board review and contract renewal engagement

Nick Foyles, governance board president for Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School, presented two documents to the Eau Claire Area School Board during the public forum: the school’s annual report and the final report of its strategic change task force.

Foyles said both reports were submitted to the district earlier the same day and asked the board to review them in full. He highlighted academic performance on the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) school report card, volunteer engagement, and outreach efforts described in the annual report.

On diversity, Foyles said the school added an ethnicity question to its lottery application in the 2023–24 cycle to better track applicants’ backgrounds. He gave numbers from the report: nonwhite enrollment for the full 2025–26 projected student body was 18.7 percent, a 3.1 percentage‑point increase compared with the prior year, and the share of newly accepted in‑district lottery applicants identified as nonwhite was 38.5 percent. He also reported a waitlist of “over 150” students.

Foyles described initiatives the governance board has undertaken to support access and engagement, including expanded community outreach, school tours, and the provision of 4K busing for the past year. He said the strategic change task force convened in 2023–24 to identify ways to increase diversity and that its final findings were shared with the district in May 2024. Foyles asked the board for feedback and said the governance board looks forward to working with district staff during the school’s contract renewal process.

Foyles closed by repeating his request that board members read both reports and consider the task force recommendations during the renewal discussion.

No board action on the reports was taken at the public forum. The reports were submitted for board review as requested by the charter school governance board.