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Clark Public Schools adopts 2025–26 district goals, reports anti-bullying self-assessment results
Summary
The Board of Education adopted four strategic goals for 2025–26 and reviewed New Jersey Department of Education benchmark results from its anti-bullying self-assessment tool. Officials said the benchmarks will guide programming and facilities planning, including work tied to a bond referendum and preschool expansion.
The Board of Education, Clark Public Schools, adopted district goals for the 2025–26 school year and received New Jersey Department of Education benchmark results from its anti-bullying self-assessment tool.
"These goals are developed annually to help guide the district moving forward," said Mr. Grama, a district administrator, addressing the board on how the goals were created by board committees with input from administrators, staff and parents. The board voted to adopt the four goals at the meeting.
The goals, officials said, focus on aligning schools and student programming across the district, advancing work tied to a recently passed bond referendum to upgrade facilities, enhancing the early childhood education program through state preschool education aid, and improving curriculum and instruction to raise student achievement.
The board also accepted CUSAC results from New Jersey Department of Education monitoring. The district reported the following benchmark values: instruction and program 86; physical management 100; governance 100; operations 97; and personnel 100. "These values are not to be confused with percentages," Mr. Grama said; he described them as benchmark values the district will use to compare past and future results.
Officials provided school-level benchmark results: Arthur L. Johnson High School (ALJ) 73 out of 78; Carl H. Kumpf Middle School 72 out of 78; Frank K. Henley School 74 out of 78; Valley Road School 77 out of 78; and the Preschool Annex 77 out of 78. The district noted that only high schools receive NJDOE comparative ranks; ALJ was reported as ranked 120 out of 358 high schools.
Superintendent-level remarks and board discussion highlighted several programs the district cited as contributing to performance, including Orton-Gillingham reading instruction for early learners and an honors academy allowing students to earn college credits while at ALJ. Board members said the district will continue to use the adopted goals to guide programming, staff development and facility planning.
Board members voted to approve the goals and the monitoring report during the meeting. The board also noted operational items including an upcoming Columbus Day closure for students and staff.
The board’s adoption of the goals sets the district’s priorities for the academic year and frames subsequent work on curriculum, staffing and facilities tied to the bond referendum and preschool expansion.
