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Superintendent reports new website, facility upgrades and strong growth index scores
Summary
Superintendent Adam Spina reported the district website is live, winter-break facility work proceeded and Williamston schools maintained high growth-index results in state accountability data.
Superintendent Adam Spina told the board the district’s new website went live last week and remains a work in progress, with staff directory and link errors being corrected. He thanked district staff who led the redesign and said the site is roughly 80 percent complete.
Spina summarized facility work completed over winter break, including painting and delivery of new high school main-office furniture, and noted continued renovations will proceed under the approved bond program. He said crews installed infrastructure at the middle school to add a bottle-filler station and a hand sink at the concessions stand to comply with a new state law that sets a ratio between bottle fillers and students; the district reported receiving a $15,000 state grant toward the project.
On water-filter maintenance, Spina said replacement cycles vary by usage and that the district’s bottle-fill stations include a color-coded indicator (green–amber–red) to show filter status.
In an education update, Spina reviewed state accountability data the district received. He said the district’s growth index is the metric the administration prioritizes most and that the high school again ranked first in the area in the overall index last year; the middle school ranked highly as well. Spina noted the state index aggregates multiple components — proficiency, growth, graduation rate and a School Quality and Student Success Index — and that some components (for example, access to arts and physical education) are calculated as ratios of certified staff to student enrollment, which can produce differences between schools that offer similar programming but have different enrollments.
To raise the School Quality and Student Success Index score for elementary schools, Spina said administrators plan to recode the district’s STEAM lab emphasis to treat STEAM as an arts class in reporting. "By prioritizing it as an arts class, we're able to increase the ratio of arts teachers to the number of students," he told the board.
Spina also reminded the board of an MASB workshop on superintendent evaluation on Jan. 13 at 6 p.m., said the next regular meeting is Feb. 3 and that finance/facilities and policy committees will meet ahead of that date to prepare for bond planning and other agenda items.
The board did not take action on the education-index material beyond receiving the update and scheduling future committee meetings.
