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District data director: CFSD maintains all A’s under Arizona A–F system; chronic absenteeism reduces proficiency
Summary
Justin Robinson presented the district’s assessment results and A–F accountability analysis: all CFSD schools earned A letter grades; district proficiency and growth patterns were reviewed and chronic absenteeism (472 of ~2,800 grades 1–8) was linked to substantially lower test performance.
Justin Robinson, the district’s director of student data, gave a detailed presentation on Catalina Foothills Unified School District student assessments and Arizona’s A–F accountability framework at the Nov. 10 board meeting.
Robinson walked the board through state achievement assessments for science, math and English language arts, cohort-based growth measures, EL proficiency (AZELLA/ALT-ELPA), and high-school measures including ACT, ACT Aspire, PSAT, STAMP and AP results. He reported the district’s average proficiency on several core assessments has been “stagnant” in places (about 57% in some subjects) while growth measures show pockets of improvement for select subgroups, notably students with disabilities and income-eligible students.
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