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Mesa reports fewer severe behavior incidents and improving semester grades and credits; graduation rate tentatively up
Summary
District presentations showed a decline in severe discipline incidents and out‑of‑school suspensions, an increase in early interventions, better semester grades in several subjects (including a notable improvement in geometry), and gains in cumulative credits with a tentative four‑year graduation estimate of about 84.4 percent.
District administrators presented two information items to the Governing Board detailing student behavior data and semester‑2 academic outcomes in core subjects and cumulative credits.
Behavior: Dr. Gibbs, presenting discipline data, reported the district averages about 0.4 discipline incidents per student and roughly 6% of students are identified as ‘‘repeat offenders’’ (more than two incidents in the year). The number of incidents categorized as severe declined year over year, and the percentage of dispositions that are out‑of‑school suspensions fell by about three percentage points. Dr. Gibbs said the…
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