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Principals present 2024–25 student outcomes, highlight reading gains and targeted interventions
Summary
Principals from Boyce and D. G. Cooley elementaries, Johnson Williams Middle School and Clark County High School told the school board that 2024–25 testing showed gains across multiple grades, detailed literacy and intervention programs, and noted areas needing work such as Virginia studies and middle-school transitions.
Principals from Clarke County Public Schools presented 2024–25 student performance data at the Nov. 17 board meeting, highlighting districtwide gains and school-level strategies to support struggling subgroups.
Max Merican, principal of Boyce Elementary, said Boyce enrolled 218 students in grades K–5 and reported a third-grade cohort of 49. "We had a really successful school year," Merican said, citing pass rates of 76 percent in reading and 75 percent in math for that cohort and noting a three‑year upward trajectory in overall pass rates, with science rising to a 79 percent pass rate. He flagged Virginia studies as a point of focus, with a 58 percent pass rate, and described local efforts — Heggerty phonemic awareness, a K–2 structured phonics program (UFLY), decodable…
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