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Palmdale Aerospace Academy reviews LCAP midyear progress; board approves second interim financial report
Summary
Administrators presented the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) midyear review highlighting test scores, college/career readiness and interventions; the board approved the second interim financial report after questions about enrollment assumptions, grants and capital accounting.
Palmdale Aerospace Academy administrators presented a midyear LCAP progress report and the board voted to approve the second interim financial report covering revenues and expenditures through Jan. 31.
LCAP highlights: Chief academic presenters described progress across the academy’s three LCAP goals—staffing, student supports and parent engagement. The presenters said services and staffing remain "in progress" in many LCAP actions because of ongoing hiring and program rollouts. Noted metrics included a decline in overall English Language Arts CAST performance from 54% to 42% year over year for grades tested, a modest increase in math to about 20%, and an increase in career-and-college readiness to a reported 92% (the presenters said this metric incorporates A–G completion, AP and CTE indicators). The academy reported a graduation rate of 98.5% and improvements in reclassification rates for English learners.
Finance presentation and questions: Chief Business Official Sarah Roseville presented the second interim financial report and a multi-year projection. She explained adjustments tied to certified pupil counts, changes to the LCFF calculation and accounting treatment of planned capital projects (notably a $3.1 million roof replacement recorded in a restricted fund and reclassified as a capital asset). Roseville reported a modest projected decrease in net revenue relative to first interim after recalibrating supplemental/concentration funding and federal grants to align with certified counts and expenditures.
Board discussion focused on assumptions in the multi-year projection (enrollment, average-daily-attendance rates and COLA estimates), use of one-time federal ESSER funds and the accounting treatment to move restricted funds into capital assets. Trustees asked staff for clarifications on robotics and extracurricular budgets and on how unused grant funds would be carried forward.
Board action: The board moved to adopt the second interim financial report; the motion passed (board voiced approval during roll call). The board chair and business staff said the report would guide budget work for the remainder of the year and that staff would continue to reconcile and refine line‑item allocations ahead of second-interim close and the spring budget cycle.
Ending: Administrators said they will follow up with more detailed itemizations as they reconcile budgets and encumbrances; staff noted the district would continue to prioritize instructional coaching, tutoring revamps and parent-engagement initiatives listed in the LCAP.
