Seattle schools present mixed math progress: district on track overall but gaps persist for multilingual learners and other groups

Seattle School District No. 1 presented an interim progress monitoring report on elementary and middle‑school mathematics to the board during a special meeting, laying out a five‑year target and interim measures while acknowledging that current trends amount largely to maintenance rather than the accelerated growth the district seeks.

"The percentage of sixth graders prepared to succeed in math coursework in seventh grade as measured by sixth grade Smarter Balanced assessment will increase from 56.8 percent in June 2025 to 66.8 percent in June 2030," Dr. Torres Morales said while outlining the district's top‑line goal and differentiated subgroup targets. The district uses MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) as an interim, predictive assessment and Smarter Balanced (SBA) as the summative measure.

Torres Morales told the board the fall MAP‑based projections for spring 2026 show modest change from the prior year for many cohorts (for example, fifth‑grade predicted proficiency for all students was 48.9% versus 47.2% last year) and described the district's overall rating for several interim measures as "maintaining." He also…