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Chatham presents 2025 testing results showing strong districtwide performance; board presses on eighth-grade dip and upcoming adaptive test
Summary
District presentation: Chatham outperformed New Jersey averages across ELA, math and science in tested grades; board members raised concerns about an eighth-grade dip and the move to an adaptive NJSLA vendor in Feb. 2026, while one board member called the tests “garbage.”
Doctor Donahue, presenting required data from the New Jersey Department of Education, told the School District of the Chathams Board of Education that Chatham students outperformed state averages across English language arts, mathematics and science in the most recent NJSLA administration. He said district ELA averages exceed the state by roughly 22 percentage points when averaged across tested grades and highlighted low percentages of students in the lowest performance bands and higher concentrations in levels 4 and 5 for many grades.
The report covered four state assessments: NJSLA (ELA, math, science), ACCESS for multilingual learners, the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA, grade 11), and Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Donahue noted that ACCESS was administered to 48 students and gave a…
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