District administrators updated the board on social-emotional learning, student attendance and extracurricular engagement, and trustees pressed staff for clearer leading indicators to evaluate progress on disproportionality.

Presenters explained that the Sabers system contributed to a three-star fall benchmark and that MySabers student self-ratings showed 78% of students in a low-risk category and 2% high-risk, while teacher ratings indicated 72% low and 7% high-risk in some grades. "There's a bit of a discrepancy when we look at teacher ratings versus our student ratings," said Gene Mannakee, the district SEL coordinator, noting persistent disparities for students who identify as Black or multiracial and higher rates for male students on teacher-identified risk.

Trustees asked what would move the district from a three-star to a four-star rating; presenters said crossing an 80% low-risk threshold would likely do so. Board members sought comparable benchmarks from other districts and statewide instruments; staff said the Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey can be used for comparisons but is administered only every other year, and that the district's new NextPath tool allows more timely breakdowns.

Attendance data showed a current attendance rate of 94.4%, near the state average (94.9%), while chronic absenteeism measured at 15.7% so far this year versus 21.1% at the same point last year. On student involvement, the board heard that 54.4% of high-school students were active in one or more activities for the fall, with subgroup gaps for students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students. Trustees asked for actionable leading indicators trustees could use to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce disproportionality and out-of-school suspensions.

Public comment and board discussion emphasized concern that KPIs can be stable and may mask important in-school progress: trustees and board members asked administration to provide more granular data and third-party review options for discipline decisions, and to tie next reports to clear, board-level indicators.