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Superintendent Steve Zrike reviews district progress, flags student belonging and early-childhood alignment
Summary
At the July 28 Salem School Committee meeting, Superintendent Steve Zrike delivered the annual state-of-the-schools presentation, highlighting gains in graduation and advanced coursework while flagging student sense of belonging and the need for vertical alignment from pre-K to grade 2.
Superintendent Steve Zrike told the Salem School Committee on July 28 that the district has made measurable gains on multiple indicators while facing gaps in student belonging and early-grade alignment.
Zrike opened the presentation by noting that some state data remain embargoed and unfinalized, including spring MCAS results, but said internal measures and preliminary counts give a picture of the district’s status as it enters the final year of its three-year strategic plan. “We don’t have all the data in from this school year,” Zrike said, noting that some MCAS information was still under embargo.
The presentation summarized progress under four priorities: elevating learning, empowering educators, centering belonging and strengthening foundations. Zrike cited strong growth at the high school level and called out advanced-coursework participation among 11th and 12th graders as “in the low seventies,” a…
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