Bethlehem Central presents 2025 State of the Schools; board approves routine finance and personnel items

The Bethlehem Central School District on Feb. 5 delivered its 2025 "State of the Schools" presentation, outlining an updated strategic-plan dashboard, enrollment projections and the near completion of a multiyear capital project, while the Board of Education approved a package of routine finance and personnel motions by voice vote.

Superintendent Jody Monroe opened the presentation by describing the dashboard the district plans to publish online as part of the strategic-plan update, saying the tool will let the public view district metrics in one place and drill into historical trends and data comparisons with the state and similar schools. "This is where we have the district's mission statement to educate and prepare all students to reach their potential, discover their purpose, and be engaged community citizens," Monroe said while demonstrating the dashboard.

Monroe told the board the strategic plan retains the four core values'academics, character, community and wellness'and that the new dashboard will show progress on goals using a visual "continuum" (25% = in progress, 50% = moderately complete, 75% = nearly complete, 100% = completed). She said the district is piloting how to display measures that do not lend themselves to numeric scoring, such as building-level character recognition activities, and that the dashboard is not yet live while the district finalizes presentation and community communications.

The presentation covered several program and curriculum…