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Principals report improved 2024–25 outcomes; district provisional rankings pending state release
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Principals from Boyse, DG Cooley, Johnson Williams and the high school presented 2024–25 student outcomes on Nov. 17; the district said three schools project as 'on track' and one as 'distinguished' pending state validation. Presentations highlighted reading interventions, attendance wins and targeted supports for EL and special-education students.
Clarke County School Board — November 17, 2025 — Principals from the district’s elementary, middle and high schools presented 2024–25 student-performance data on Monday, highlighting gains in reading and math, expanded intervention programs and stronger attendance rates, while cautioning that final accountability categories await the state’s official release.
Max Merican, identified as principal of Boyse Elementary, said Boyse enrolled 218 K–5 students last year and reported cohort gains coming out of the pandemic-era cohorts: “This is the first kind of cohort coming out of COVID that have been in school full time starting in kindergarten,” he said, and cited third-grade pass rates of 76% in reading and 75% in math. Merican described multi-year gains across subjects and named interventions in place — Heggerty phonemic-awareness lessons, a UFLY phonics program, decodable texts, small-group goal setting and…
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