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District annual report flags state assessment transition and data-reporting discrepancies
Summary
At its Dec. 8 meeting, the Grand Forks school district laid out enrollment and subgroup trends, cautioned about comparability after the state switched from NDSA to NDA+ assessments, and described a mismatch between PowerSchool and the state STARS reporting system that produced different graduation-rate figures.
The Grand Forks Public Schools administration presented its 2024–25 annual report to the school board on Dec. 8, 2025, citing enrollment changes, increases in multilingual and special education populations, and concerns about statewide assessment comparability and data-reporting errors that affect public graduation-rate figures.
Chief administrative presenters said the district saw a one-year reversal after a prior enrollment spike and a 1.7 percentage-point rise in free-and-reduced-lunch counts for 2024–25. District leaders also reported that the multilingual program serves roughly 477–478 students and that the special education December 1 count was 1,532 students — about 20% of the district — up from…
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