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Richmond Community Schools reports multi-year test gains; analyst highlights pandemic recovery and remaining gaps
Summary
An external analyst told the Richmond Community Schools board that five‑year iLearn trends show gains in ELA and math and faster recovery to pre‑pandemic levels than peer districts, while middle‑school performance — especially eighth grade — remains a concern.
Richmond Community Schools reported measurable gains in student achievement during a March 6 work session, with an outside analyst saying the district has made steady multi‑year progress in English language arts and math and recovered more quickly from pandemic declines than similar districts.
Ryan Winter, CEO of LinkedIn (described in the presentation as a data analytics vendor), told the Board the district’s iLearn results over a five‑year window show improvement across the four core subjects and that Richmond’s elementary grades drove much of the momentum. "There is momentum across your different grades and subjects, really in both ELA and math," Winter said during his presentation.
Winter said the analysis compared Richmond to several peer sets — a decile band of districts with similar economically disadvantaged percentages, county and regional peers, and statewide results — and that the most relevant comparison group is districts with similar socioeconomic composition. Richmond’s economically disadvantaged rate was reported as 62%, and Winter said…
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