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Addison SD 4 principals report steady gains, set modest academic and safety goals for 2024-25
Summary
Principals from Addison SD 4 presented school improvement updates showing reading and math gains at several schools and identified safety and SEL as recurring priorities; administrators said principals will return with full SIP documents in August and a midyear check-in is planned.
Principals from Addison School District 4 presented short school improvement plan updates at the June 26 board meeting, reporting a mix of modest achievement gains and continuing gaps and naming safety and social-emotional learning as priorities for 2024-25.
At the Early Learning Center, leaders said expressive vocabulary growth rose from 62% to 74% during the year, and they plan to reframe next year27s goal to measure growth rather than raw attainment. "We grew from 62 to 74%, which is great," the ELC presenter said.
Ardmore reported meeting a 3% reading goal exactly and exceeding its math goal with a 12% increase on MAPs; the principal credited data folders and student ownership for the gains and said discipline referrals fell by 16.6% after new classroom-based interventions. At Army Trail, staff reported 4% reading growth and 7% math growth and described creating additional recess zones as a behavioral strategy that coincided with a five-week stretch with zero major referrals.
Lincoln and Stone also described mixed results: Lincoln said it met its math goal but did not meet a reading objective, and Stone reported strong HMH growth and a 13% increase in MAP math achievement. Several principals noted a misalignment between different assessment systems (HMH vs. MAP) and said that will be an area of attention moving forward.
District leadership framed the presentations as the second year of an ongoing improvement process. Superintendent-level remarks said principals will present their full school improvement plans at the August board meeting, with a midyear check-in in December and another report to the board a year from now.
Board members asked follow-up questions about how schools select focus strands (for example, geometry at several elementary schools) and whether differences between HMH and MAP scores reflect real instructional variance or measurement issues. Administration acknowledged the discrepancy and said staff will analyze where the different measures do and do not align.
The district27s next formal step is for principals to return in August with full SIP documents and for the board to receive progress updates in December.
