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Salem-Keizer reports 80.1% ninth-grade on-track rate; board discusses racial gaps, attendance and credit recovery
Summary
District staff presented 2023–24 ninth-grade on-track data showing 80.1% of ninth graders earned six or more credits in their first high school year. Board members pressed for explanations of subgroup gaps, and staff outlined attendance efforts, credit-recovery options and targeted supports.
District staff told the Salem-Keizer School District 24J board on April 8 that 80.1% of ninth graders in 2023–24 earned six or more credits — the district measure for being “on track” in the freshman year — and that 2,971 students were included in the cohort used for the calculation.
The figure exceeds the district’s current board target but falls short of the district’s 2025 goal of 82.1% on track, presenters said. High school director Larry Ramirez and members of the secondary team described strategies schools use to identify students who need help and the interventions they are using, including ninth-grade data teams, targeted smaller core-class sizes, in-day credit recovery “wheel” schedules, summer school, online credit-recovery options, and Saturday school sessions.
Board directors pressed…
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