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Halsted Creek principal reports enrollment dip, test trends and focus on attendance and family engagement
Summary
Stacy Miller presented student counts, staffing and test-score trends for Halsted Creek, outlining site goals for reading, math and attendance and describing family engagement events and benchmark monitoring.
Stacy Miller, identified in the meeting as the Halsted Creek presenter, told the Muskogee Board of Education that current enrollment at Halsted Creek is 377 students, down from 392 at the end of the previous school year.
Miller gave a staffing breakdown: 28 certified staff (24 returning), 14 support staff (13 returning) and a range of specialists including a reading interventionist and a counselor. She said five staff did not return from the prior year for reasons including resignation, retirement and relocation.
Miller reviewed academic and assessment data. The school’s state report-card classification moved to a D in 2023–24; Miller said staff have studied how the state awards points and do not accept a D as the final assessment. On the OSTP and other state measures, she said reading has shown growth while math remains lower, with particular gaps in number fluency.
Halsted Creek uses STAR benchmarks three times per year to monitor reading and math progress. Miller said the school reduced chronic absenteeism from 17%–18% in prior years to 14% in 2023–24, but current figures have rebounded and the school’s present chronic-absence rate is about 18%. She described daily attendance outreach — including phone calls when a student is absent — as a tool to build relationships and reduce absenteeism.
Site goals, Miller told the board, align to district initiatives: increase STAR scores for all students (with attention to subgroups such as EL and special-education students), raise math proficiency by 5% for all subgroups and improve attendance above last year’s 94% rate. Miller said the school aims for a 95% attendance target and described regular family-engagement events, a fall carnival, trunk-or-treat, a family literacy night and monthly activities to involve parents and community partners.
Miller also described longstanding activities such as “transportation day,” where community vehicles and first-responder resources visit the school, and student leadership programs including a safety patrol and student council. She emphasized classroom-level interventions and small-group math instruction as part of the strategy to raise mathematics performance.
Miller answered board questions and closed the presentation by inviting questions from members.
