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Bibb County presentation links early literacy, Lexile growth and chronic absenteeism; district outlines attendance interventions
Summary
At a Bibb County Board of Education meeting, Dr. Lett presented district literacy and attendance data, highlighting pre-K gains, Lexile distributions in upper elementary grades, the district definition and impact of chronic absenteeism, and steps the district is taking—including weekly attendance teams and mentor programs—to address absenteeism.
Dr. Lett presented to the Bibb County Board of Education on the district’s literacy and attendance data, showing growth among pre-K students, detailed Lexile score distributions across grades and schools, and the district’s actions to address chronic absenteeism.
Dr. Lett said Bibb County’s pre-K students made “impressive growth in foundational math skills” and showed notable early literacy gains in phonemic awareness and letter identification. He explained Lexile scores as a measure of both text complexity and a student’s reading ability, and emphasized the importance of the jump from third to fourth grade when students move from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.”
The presentation included grade-level Lexile data: many current fourth graders clustered around a 400 Lexile, the largest single group at 550 (within the grade-level band of 520–669), and groups at 650, 700, 820–850 and above 1,000 for…
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