Superintendent outlines enrollment, facility and instructional goals; board adopts superintendent goals and working agreement

Superintendent Gary Roberts gave the board a start-of-year administrative report that covered enrollment numbers, facility improvements, district sprint goals and an updated data and assessment cycle. The board then approved the superintendent’s goals for 2025–26 and adopted a board–superintendent working agreement (option B), amended to explicitly reference hiring and termination authority for the board.

Enrollment and projections Roberts presented September enrollment figures and a short-term uptick in weekly counts. The district reported it was approximately 66 students down from the same point last school year but later reported an increase of 87 from the prior week; he said much of the week‑over‑week increase was at the district’s online program. Roberts noted longer-term projections that the district is expected to decline about 10% over the next 5–8 years absent external development projects that bring additional families.

Class sizes and program notes Roberts reviewed average class-size figures, noting that kindergarten through fourth grade enrollments are closer to historic balance across the district and that a sixth-grade cohort is substantially larger than some other grades; he said sixth-grade class size exceeded the recommended 26‑student guideline and an extra educational assistant (EA) was assigned at each intermediate school to support that cohort.

Facilities and operations The superintendent outlined facility projects completed over the summer: painting and LED lighting upgrades at Sunset and other buildings, new gym lighting, new cafeteria tables, flooring at Milnercrest Education Center, scoreboard and spring‑court work at athletic fields, and grease interceptors at the high school. The business manager reported a controls change in accounts-payable signature authority to a single primary signer in the business office to reduce fraud risk; monthly reports of checks written will be provided to the board for transparency.

Sprint goals, data cycle and metrics The superintendent described district and site-level short-term “sprint” goals for September–October: districtwide regular-attender rates, K–6 SuccessMaker minutes, 7–12 effort metrics, and site-selected priorities such as CharacterStrong or Boost minutes. He also outlined a data cycle of progress monitoring, admin data dialogues and quarterly reviews to track progress toward performance indicators including third-grade reading and eighth-grade math benchmarks.

Board actions The board voted to adopt the superintendent’s goals (as amended to reference four‑year graduation rates and five‑year completion rates) and later adopted the board–superintendent working agreement using option B. During the working-agreement discussion the board amended the text to add explicit language citing the board’s sole authority for personnel-management processes “including hiring, firing, and performance evaluation,” then approved the agreement; one member recorded an abstention on final adoption.

What the record does not say The meeting transcript did not include dollar figures tied to facility projects in the motion record; specific budgetary impacts and contract sums for the work were not read into the public record during the meeting.

Board follow-up Administration will circulate monthly accounts‑payable reports to the board and continue to report enrollment variances and sprint‑goal progress through the district’s data cycle.