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Goose Creek CISD leaders cite steady STAR results, outline curriculum and intervention changes
Summary
District staff told the board they maintained overall "approaches" performance while the state fell, described rescoring of English I and II tests, and outlined curriculum, staffing and intervention plans including Bluebonnet materials, structured literacy and an Amira pilot.
Goose Creek CISD administrators told the Board of Trustees their district held steady on overall STAR (STAAR-equivalent) measures for 2024-25 while the statewide averages declined, and laid out curriculum and intervention changes intended to raise “meets” and “masters” performance.
The report, led by Ms. Jackson and members of the Curriculum and Instruction team, summarized multi-year changes to state testing, a rescoring effort for some English end-of-course (EOC) tests, and steps the district will take before the 2025-26 school year. Ms. Jackson told trustees, “I think that you're gonna be pleasantly happy with this information.”
District leaders said Goose Creek maintained 62.5% at the “approaches” level districtwide while the state dropped from 75% to about 62%; district “meets” moved slightly from 34.5% to 34.8%. Sarah Lawrence, the associate director for ELA, said elementary grades — particularly grades 3 and 4 — showed the biggest gains, and that the district closed gaps on extended constructed responses at seven of eight tested grades.
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