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SFUSD reports five-year gains on CSTs but warns of Common Core transition and assessment changes
Summary
District leaders told the school board that San Francisco showed multi-year gains on California Standards Tests (CSTs) — with about a 9–10 percentage-point increase in ELA and math proficiency over five years — while cautioning that the transition to Common Core and Smarter Balanced assessments may produce short-term 'implementation dips.'
San Francisco Unified School District staff presented a multi-year analysis of student performance showing sustained gains on California Standards Tests (CSTs) and outlined district strategies for continuing progress during the transition to Common Core standards and Smarter Balanced assessments.
Deputy Superintendent Roberto Figueredo framed a multi-year trend that shows an approximate 9.7 percentage-point increase in English language arts proficiency since 2008 (from about 50.5% to 60.2%) and similar multi-year gains in math. Assistant superintendents highlighted matched-cohort movement: roughly 69% of tested students in ELA and 75% in math either advanced one level or maintained proficiency year over year. District staff pointed to specific "schools on the move" and "acceleration schools" that doubled district trends or produced double-digit gains in a single year.
Panel presenters emphasized sustained investments in professional development, instructional coaching, common planning time, summer learning opportunities, and community-school models. They also warned that as the state moves to the Common Core and Smarter Balanced system, SFUSD expects an "implementation dip" in test results because the new assessments measure higher-order skills and are not strictly comparable to prior CST scores. The superintendent and staff urged the board and parents to pay attention to benchmark and formative assessments as more immediate indicators of student progress during the assessment transition.
