District leaders updated the board on special education, preschool and English‑language‑learner (ELL) services and staffing.

Special education: The district reported it currently serves about 20.6 percent of students with special education services (including speech‑only students). Staff said that is several percentage points above past levels and slightly above the state average. The district’s most recent compliance review showed an 87.2 percent compliance level based on student results, timeliness, environments and paperwork. Staff described a planned supervisor restructuring to align special‑education supervisors with feeder patterns so supervisors can support students from elementary through middle school in a set of feeder schools.

Preschool: The district said it serves about 379 preschool‑age children, including 12 students funded through On My Way Pre‑K and roughly 76 tuition‑paying families. Tuition for full‑day programming with transportation was cited at $150 per week. Staff reported improvements in Path to Quality standards, in‑person monitoring visits from the Indiana Department of Education with positive results, and expanded professional development days for preschool staff. The district also said it keeps paper backups of student records and plans for a forthcoming state IEP system migration.

ELL: The district reported about 1,370 ELL students and said it has added ELL programs at Wilson and Utica elementary schools this year; redistricting next year will add programs at Franklin Square, Riverside and the new Pipe (new elementary) to allow more students to receive services at their home schools. Staff also said Jeff High students earned a first round of the state certificate of multilingual proficiency and that the district added an ELL coordinator (Ashley Molina) for 2024–25.

Staff told the board they will continue to align programs to feeder patterns and monitor staffing, compliance and program availability as boundary changes take effect.