District administrators presented the 2025 NJSLA results and a package of instructional responses on Nov. 10.

Mr. Van Ness opened the statutorily required presentation and supervisors Sherry Krapels and Nicole Hirsch reviewed ELA performance and cohort trends, citing that "88% of the students in that grade met or exceeded expectations" in eighth grade ELA and that the district on average exceeded the state by about 27 percentage points in grades 39 for level 4 and 5 performance in ELA. They stressed cohort tracking (following the same students year-to-year) to avoid misreading single-year capsule comparisons.

Estella Fortuna and other math supervisors presented math progress, noting consistent gains in grades 3 and in middle grades, and flagged Algebra I as a high-performing area with small testing cohorts in Algebra 2 (14 students). Science supervisors reported strong performance across tested grades (5, 8, 11) and attributed gains to curricular alignment, the use of OpenSciEd in the middle school and benchmark practice items from the NJDOE.

Presenters emphasized interventions: K5 phonics rollout and training for grade 4 and 5 teachers, expanded DIBELS screening for K, Membean vocabulary in grade 6, small-group instruction, twice-monthly planning for sixth-grade reading/writing, and tiered intervention sessions for grades 6 in math. Supervisors noted small sample sizes for some subgroups and said privacy constraints limit display of subgroup charts when n < 10.

Board members thanked the team and asked follow-up questions on cohort interpretation and program efficacy. Administration noted that state-level comparative district data will be available in spring and that the materials presented were the data the state provides now for CUSAC accreditation reporting.

Next steps discussed included continued professional development, reviewing cohort-level data, and monitoring outcomes from this year's benchmark and intervention implementation.