OCPS presents midyear update to OCPS 2030 strategic plan with five KPIs, targets for literacy, attendance and postsecondary planning

Orange County Public Schools leaders presented a midyear update to the OCPS 2030 strategic plan at the school board meeting on Jan. 28, 2025, detailing five key performance indicators and proposed multi‑year targets that staff will refine after full‑year data is available.

The plan centers on a new “portrait of a graduate” and five KPIs: 12th‑grade students meeting portrait attributes, grade‑level performance on state assessments, remaining the top choice for families, reducing preventable employee turnover and increasing student instructional attendance. Doctor James Border, who led the strategic‑plan presentation, said the portrait “expects our graduates to possess essential skills in communication, critical thinking and problem solving, personal and social responsibility, professionalism and collaboration, academic foundations in literacy and mathematics, and includes workplace readiness relative to career preparedness, technology skills, and bilingual abilities.”

Why it matters: the plan…