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SFUSD posts baseline Smarter Balanced results: about half of students meet grade-level standards, with wide subgroup gaps
Summary
District officials released Smarter Balanced benchmark results showing roughly 52% of students met or exceeded English-language-arts standards and 48% met or exceeded math standards. The presentation highlighted persistent achievement gaps for African American students and students with disabilities and strong correlations between absenteeism and lower scores.
San Francisco Unified School District officials presented the district’s first baseline Smarter Balanced (SBAC) results at the Sept. 29 board meeting and described the results as a mixed picture: overall proficiency at roughly half the students, but large and worrisome gaps for specific subgroups.
Chiefs from Research, Planning & Assessment said participation was near the state target (about 95%) and that more than 25,000 students in grades 3–8 and 11 took the assessments. District-level results showed about 52% of tested students met or exceeded…
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