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West Oso ISD reports early assessment gains across grades but flags junior-high writing and reading for targeted intervention
Summary
District staff presented assessment gains from the beginning of year to first nine-week results while highlighting high counts of zero scores on constructed responses (writing) at junior high. Staff and trustees discussed targeted interventions including professional learning, Renaissance incentives, and the foundation-funded reading specialist.
Miss Garcia presented district assessment results showing notable gains between beginning-of-year (BOY) assessments and first nine-week summatives. Several examples given by presenters: third-grade English approaches rose from 18% at BOY to 63% on the first nine-week assessment; third-grade math rose from about 9% to 82%; fourth-grade reading moved from 38% to 97%. At the high-school level, English I rose from 31% to 77% and English II from 39% to 75%. Presenters said Algebra I approaches reached near 100% in some cohorts.
Despite those increases,…
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