Northfield board hears 2024-25 CACR results and adopts stretch targets for 2025-26 and ANI 2025-28

The Northfield Board of Education held a public hearing Nov. 10 during which district staffer Daryl reviewed the district's 2024-25 Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR) results and presented proposed CACR goals for 2025-26 and Achievement and Integration (ANI) targets for 2025-28. The hearing included data on kindergarten readiness, attendance-based measures used to track racial and economic gaps, on-track graduation indicators and several ANI outcomes.

Daryl said the district met several 2024-25 goals and made notable progress on others. “Eighty-five percent of kindergarten students met the grade-level benchmark,” he told the board, referring to FastBridge assessment results, and said the district met that year's kindergarten-readiness target. He also highlighted gains in attendance and narrowed gaps: FRP attendance rose from 70% to 78%, shrinking a recorded achievement gap from 15% to 7%, and student-of-color…