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Excelsior Springs falls just short of state accreditation cutoff; district launches task force and quarterly monitoring
Summary
Director of academics Doctor Miller reported the district’s 2025 APR at 69.5 (state cutoff for full accreditation is 70), outlined declines in algebra and some elementary grades, and announced a monitoring phase with a new academic task force and quarterly board reports to target interventions.
Doctor Miller reported to the Excelsior Springs School Board that the district’s 2025 MAP/EOC APR score is 69.5, just below the state’s 70% cutoff for full accreditation. "A score of 70% is the state's cutoff for full accreditation; we earned a score of 69.5," Miller said, calling the results "a wake-up call" that will require focused academic work.
Miller walked the board through building- and grade-level trends, noting pockets of success — Elkhorn’s fourth- and fifth-grade gains…
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