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District staff brief trustees on 2024 California School Dashboard results; ELA and math show mixed trends
Summary
District presenters reviewed 2024 Dashboard indicators: overall status held in ELA, math improved but not enough to change color band, increases in student groups in red, English learner progress declined slightly amid rising reclassification.
Loranda Ortega, director of curriculum and instruction, presented the Buena Park School District’s 2024 California School Dashboard summary to the Board of Trustees, outlining academic and equity indicators and new measures for English learner progress.
Ortega said the district’s English language arts status remained steady year over year but that three additional student groups moved into the red performance band in 2024: African American students, foster youth and long-term English learners. “For English Language Arts, we can see that overall our students maintained status as compared to prior year,” she said.
Math showed overall growth: Ortega reported a 4.4‑point increase toward standard that nevertheless did not change the district’s color rating. She also said four student groups moved into the red band in math — foster youth, homeless students, long-term English learners and students with disabilities — compared with none the prior year.
The dashboard includes a new long-term English learner indicator. Ortega reported that of 220 long-term English learners, 63.8% are making progress toward English proficiency, an increase of 5.9 percentage points from the prior year.
On English learner progress as measured by ELPAC, Ortega said 46.8% of English learners were making progress toward English proficiency in 2024, a decline of 3.6 percentage points that shifted the indicator’s color from green to orange. She explained the decline likely reflects a reclassification increase: about 174 students were reclassified during the year, reducing the number taking the ELPAC from 938 in 2023 to 816 in 2024.
Other indicators: chronic absenteeism improved districtwide, with a reported 5.9% reduction that moved the indicator up one color level. The suspension indicator improved enough to move two color levels, Ortega said, with a small decline in the suspension rate.
Trustees asked for clarification about how dashboard colors are determined; Ortega and staff explained the five-by-five grid that cross-references current performance and year-over-year change. Staff described local plans to address student groups performing in lower bands, including literacy-focused site curriculum choices, an intensive intervention program for grades 3–5 and instructional coaching to support tiered instruction and interventions.
Board President Chang thanked staff and said the district will include subgroup data in future regular reports to ensure community transparency.
