Vernon reports higher NJGPA graduation readiness and outlines supports for students who did not meet cut scores

Vernon Township School District administrators presented the district's spring 2025 New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA) and NJ ACCESS (WIDA) results at the July board meeting, reporting higher graduation-readiness rates in both English language arts and math compared with the statewide averages and describing the district’s retake, alternate-assessment and portfolio pathways and targeted interventions for students who did not meet cut scores.

The presentation said the State Board of Education adopted a cut score of 725 for the NJGPA components on May 3, 2023. District staff reported that on the English-language-arts component 211 students were tested: 188 (89.1 percent) met the graduation-ready cut score and 23 (10.9 percent) did not. By comparison, the state’s reported figures were 80.7 percent graduation ready and 19.3 percent not graduation ready. On the mathematics component 210 students were tested: 137 (65.2 percent) were graduation ready and 73 (34.8 percent) were not; staff said the state’s comparable math readiness rate was roughly 58 percent.

District staff described the stepwise…