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Mountain View Whisman trustees hear 2025 CAASPP results showing persistent gaps for English learners and socioeconomically disadvantaged students
Summary
District staff presented 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) results and analysis; board and public questioned curriculum implementation, background knowledge and chronic absenteeism as drivers of low proficiency at high‑need sites such as Castro.
The Mountain View Whisman School District Board of Trustees received a staff presentation on the district's 2025 CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) results and discussed persistent proficiency gaps affecting English learners, socioeconomically disadvantaged students and some campuses.
Kathy Bauer, a district staff member who led the CAASPP briefing, said the district continues to score above county and state averages at an aggregate level but that the district's overall proficiency rates have flattened and elementary-level scores declined while middle school scores rose modestly. She noted large gaps for Hispanic/Latino students, economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities and English learners and said those gaps are magnified at sites such as Castro, where she reported roughly 87% of students are socioeconomically disadvantaged and 71% are English learners.
Bauer explained the CAASPP assessments administered last spring (SBAC in English language arts and math, CAST for science) and described both year‑over‑year and…
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