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RSU 06 superintendent lays out measurable goals for math, reading and attendance; student council reports events
Summary
Superintendent presented measurable goals across elementary, middle and high school levels — including a 2% elementary math increase tied to REVEAL Math, literacy targets using Fountas & Pinnell, and attendance reductions — and student representatives summarized recent events and contests.
Superintendent provided the board with a set of measurable academic and attendance goals for the coming year, asking the board to expect a midyear update and a final review before the board convenes in June.
The superintendent said elementary schools are targeting a 2% growth on benchmark math assessments aligned with the new REVEAL Math program. For elementary literacy the goal is to increase growth measured by the Fountas & Pinnell (F&P) Benchmark Assessment System from 68% to 70%, she said. Attendance, the superintendent noted, remains foundational: the district aims to raise overall attendance and bring elementary chronic absenteeism below 15%.
Middle-school goals are tied to IXL diagnostic measures, the superintendent said, including raising the proportion of students meeting the middle-school math benchmark from 37% to 53% and literacy from 51% to 60%. At the high school level the district set a target to increase ninth-grade course pass rates to 90% across subjects by the end of the 2025–26 school year and to reduce chronic absenteeism by at least 5 percentage points.
The superintendent emphasized the newness of some assessments: Reveal Math benchmarks were administered only last year, limiting multi-year baselines, and principals and site teams chose measures they felt best fit local contexts. Board members asked questions about why math targets were specified differently than literacy; administrators said score variance and differing diagnostic tools explain some of that distinction.
The superintendent also reported Adult Education goals: increasing post-test participation from a 54% baseline to 61% and improving the state data-match participation rate from 75% to 85% so that employment outcomes can be verified for federal AEFLA reporting.
In other reports the board heard that Isabelle Gendreau at Hollis Elementary received a STEM-for-Me Mainspace grant to purchase water-testing kits for student use, and the superintendent read results from a recent math meet, naming grade-level winners and the overall meet champion, David Cope. The student representative summarized a Veterans Day assembly, upcoming theatre performances, a mock-trial competition and youth-in-government participation at the state capital.
Board chair Welch said superintendent and board evaluations will be distributed and completed around January, and the superintendent said she will present updates on these goals midyear and again before June. The board did not take formal action on the academic goals at the meeting.
The next formal progress update was scheduled for midyear, with a final performance review expected before the June board cycle.
