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Effingham County Middle School reports highest-ever CCRPI, outlines attendance and discipline strategies
Summary
Travis Dickey and Holly Scott presented ECMS’s improvement plan, noting the school’s highest CCRPI, mixed GMAS/MAP results, a 9% reduction in discipline incidents and a 7-percentage-point drop in chronic absenteeism; proposed actions include literacy blocks, MTSS, SEL small groups and expanded tutoring.
Travis Dickey summarized Effingham County Middle School’s recent performance data and improvement goals, saying that despite demographic shifts the school recorded its highest CCRPI score to date and showing where goals were met or missed across GMAS and MAP measures.
Dickey said the school met several GMAS targets (for example, seventh- and eighth-grade math) but missed others (sixth-grade ELA and sixth-grade math). He identified a gap between MAP growth and GMAS achievement for some grades and described adjustments the school made, including staff realignment and changes to resource instruction.
“CCRPI is really made up of four components. It’s content mastery, progress, closing gaps, and readiness,” Dickey said, noting the highest content mastery and readiness scores in the school’s reporting history. He added that enrollment and changes in the special-education and economically disadvantaged populations complicate year-to-year comparisons.
Holly Scott described classroom and intervention practices the school deemed successful: a daily 30-minute literacy block, tiered reading interventions (Lexia, Orton-Gillingham Morphology Plus), talent-time enrichment for advanced readers, co-teach inclusion models, and regular MTSS reviews. Scott also credited district support for adding staff positions in ELA and math to reduce class sizes.
For school culture goals, Dickey reported a 9% reduction in discipline incident rate and a 33% relative improvement in chronic absenteeism (absolute reduction of 7 percentage points), and described incentives used to encourage attendance and behavior (grade-level competitions, principal’s incentive, parent events). The board received the report for informational purposes; no formal policy changes were proposed at the presentation.
