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Homewood SD 153 presents 2025 IAR results; district emphasizes student growth and schedules parent report night
Summary
Catherine Czarnecki, the district assessment administrator, told the Homewood SD 153 board that all three district schools earned 'commendable' ratings on the 2025 Illinois school report card after the state revised proficiency cutoffs; the district urged parents to attend a Nov. 17 session where individualized IAR reports will be explained.
Catherine Czarnecki, the district administrator in charge of assessments, presented the district’s 2025 Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) results to the Homewood School District 153 Board of Education on Nov. 10, saying all three district schools earned a "commendable" designation under the state’s revised report-card framework. "One of the big things I wanted to start off with is congratulating all three of our schools for being commendable this year," Czarnecki said.
Czarnecki told the board the state changed proficiency performance levels this year and aligned performance descriptors across tests — a move that makes…
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