Summit schools report strong NJSLA performance, district warned of state testing platform change

Heather Rocco, the Summit Public School District director of curriculum and instruction, presented the district’s spring 2025 standardized test results and a state‑mandated testing platform change to the Board of Education at its October meeting.

Rocco said the district performed “really strong” overall on New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA) in English language arts and math, and that the district generally outperformed state averages at grades 3–9 for ELA and across comparable math assessments. She noted the district continues to disaggregate results by subgroup (race, program, gender) and to track cohorts year to year to guide instruction.

Why it matters: the results are used to direct curriculum, professional development and interventions. Rocco said the district uses the NJSLA and complementary diagnostics (iReady, Acadience) to identify standards that need targeted support and to plan tiered interventions and progress monitoring.

Key details from the presentation

- Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM), the alternate assessment for students with the most significant disabilities, had 19 Summit test…