Avon Grove administrators report steady academic gains and wider PBIS use across district

Avon Grove School District administrators presented end-of-year academic updates and behavior-data summaries during the district’s education committee meeting, reporting increases in student growth measures and expanded use of PBIS incentives across buildings.

High school administrators said marking-period failures fell after an early-year increase and credited expanded PLC time, data analysis and mastery learning. “We would like to attribute that to the focus we placed on our PLC time, specifically on data analysis with our teachers,” the high school administrator said. The high school also reported expanded MTSS meeting cadence and new mid-marking‑period counselor check‑ins for students with Ds or Fs. On school behavior programs the administrator said the school had awarded “over 229,000 points to our students” through its PBIS system and that staff surveys rose sharply on clarity of behavioral expectations (from 9% to 86%) and on expectations…