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District reports across-the-board improvement on Iowa School Performance Profile; new DMACC IT career academy described
Summary
The associate superintendent told the board that all district buildings met expectations on the latest Iowa School Performance Profile and that every building improved from the prior year. The board also heard details about a new two-semester Information Technology Career Academy from DMACC that would award an application developer certificate.
The Ames Community School District reported system-wide improvement on the Iowa School Performance Profile on Monday, with the district’s associate superintendent saying every building met expectations and showed year-over-year gains.
The data underpinning the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) accountability work is largely drawn from the ISASP statewide tests, the associate superintendent said. The district used those results as the foundation for its school-improvement work and for required ESSA planning and resource-allocation reviews.
Assistant/Associate Superintendent (name given at the meeting as Dr. Hawkins) told the board that “we're doing really well” and that the district had growth in the…
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