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District reports midyear LCAP progress: attendance up, chronic absenteeism down, early achievement gains for targeted students
Summary
District administrators presented a midyear Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) update showing midyear MAP results at or near national norms in early grades, districtwide CAST scores still trailing state targets, improved attendance and a fall in chronic absenteeism, and initial gains from an after-school intervention program.
The district’s LCAP midyear update, presented by district leadership, reported mixed but improving results in academic and social-emotional metrics and provided a midyear budget status.
Presenter Dr. Wen said recent MAP (district interim) math and ELA results show elementary grades meeting or approaching national norms, and that those midyear results are generally predictive of end-of-year CAST performance. “This data is hot off the press,” the presenter said, describing winter MAP data and week-old results used in the presentation.
Districtwide CAST results from the prior year remain below the highest performance band: the district is in the orange range for both ELA and math on the state dashboard, and leaders said they are continuing multi-tiered systems of support. The presenter highlighted gains in key student groups: socioeconomically disadvantaged students showed movement in math into the yellow range, and long-term English learners — students identified as English learners for six or more years — showed 63% making progress on the state progress indicator.
The board heard program-level details: an after-school intervention program called Encore has served 77 students across eight sites so far this year; staff reported an average gain of about seven percentile points in reading for participants and cited site-level variability (e.g., 12-point gains at one school). At the midyear point, the district reported that roughly 100% of teachers are fully credentialed and that the district’s Facility Inspection Tool status improved to “good” at all sites except one, where a plan is in place.
Attendance and social-emotional measures showed improvement: the district reported a midyear positive attendance rate of about 94.8% and chronic absenteeism down to 13.2% as of early February, compared with previous-year levels near 16.5% by year-end. Counselors and partner agencies have provided tiered supports during the school day; the district’s partnership with a community mental-health provider, Wellness Together, has provided in-school services to about 30 students this year and the district provides educationally related mental health services to students with IEPs (89 students reported).
The presenter summarized midyear finances for LCAP actions, reporting the district had spent roughly half of the budgeted amounts tied to LCAP goals and is “on track” for the year. Trustees asked clarifying questions about measures and budgeting schedules; staff said some planned training was completed in the prior fiscal year and that remaining LCAP allocations will be spent in the second half of the year.
