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Bridgewater Elementary reports higher attendance and math gains, sets 80% proficiency goal
Summary
Interim Bridgewater Principal Hope Langston told the Northfield Public School Board that the school posted a 95% average daily attendance rate in 2024–25, reduced chronic absenteeism to 7.3%, and produced notably strong third- and fourth-grade math results. The school outlined goals for 2025–26 including an 80% grade-level benchmark target and more
Bridgewater Elementary School posted stronger attendance and improved math results in 2024–25 and will aim for 80% of students meeting grade-level benchmarks in 2025–26, Interim Principal Hope Langston told the Northfield Public School Board on Oct. 14.
"We had an average consistent attendance rate for the 24–25 school year of 95%," Langston said, and she reported the percentage of chronically absent students fell from 12% in 2023–24 to 7.3% in 2024–25.
The school highlighted third- and fourth-grade proficiency gains in math during the district’s first year of the new curriculum adoption. Langston said third- and fourth-grade cohorts ranked above most statewide elementary schools on comparable measures, and noted the school’s free- and reduced-price (FRP) student proficiency for third grade improved into the…
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