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Sauk Trail principal: 2-way immersion enrollment, test-data changes and chronic absenteeism are top concerns
Summary
Principal Chris Dahlke told the board Sauk Trail’s 2-way immersion program now enrolls a majority of students and that state assessment changes tied to Act 20 make year-to-year comparisons difficult; the school also reported about 12% chronic absenteeism this year.
Principal Chris Dahlke told the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education on Tuesday that Sauk Trail Elementary’s student data is in flux after statewide assessment changes and that the school is focusing on attendance and bilingual supports.
“This is probably the wonkiest report I’ve ever given because our data changed, like the actual what we were using for data, due to Act 20,” Chris Dahlke said. She said the district’s shift in tests means results from fall-to-spring are not directly comparable to previous years.
The report said Sauk Trail is the district’s only school with a Spanish–English two-way immersion program. “Right now ... we have 54% of our student population that’s in 2-way immersion, versus the 46% in what we call English language instruction or ELI,” Dahlke said. The school serves about 365 students and roughly a third of them…
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