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District presents CAASPP and CAST results showing incremental gains, but gaps remain
Summary
District staff reported modest year-over-year gains in ELA, math and science and described targeted professional learning community (PLC) strategies to address declines among some subgroups, notably students with disabilities and fifth-grade ELA.
The board received the district’s annual student achievement presentation, which summarized CAASPP (ELA and math) and CAST (science) results and outlined district priorities for continuing improvement.
Presenter Phil said the district’s ELA and math results "have exceeded once again the state and the county" in several measures and described modest upward trends over the last year, while acknowledging that results have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels (SEG 1437–1446, SEG 1466–1470).
Phil singled out subgroup trends: he said students with disabilities declined approximately 2 percentage points, while socioeconomically disadvantaged students and English learners showed gains (SEG 1487–1496). He also flagged a roughly 7% dip in fifth-grade ELA performance and said the district will investigate causal factors and address them in grade-level cohort work (SEG 1561–1566).
On strategy, Phil emphasized building a professional learning community (PLC) culture and listed four essential PLC questions: "What do we want kids to learn? How do we know they've learned it? What are we doing when they haven't learned it? And what are we doing for students who have already learned it?" He said the district will focus on coherence from district goals down to individual teacher goals and continue targeted professional development (SEG 1660–1664, SEG 1690–1701).
Board members praised staff and asked that the presentation materials be posted publicly to help storytelling and community outreach; a trustee requested that the results be published on the district website for families and prospective families to review (SEG 1936–1946). The presenter said more dashboard details, including chronic absenteeism, will be shared in a forthcoming dashboard presentation (SEG 1740–1747).
Next steps: targeted investigations into the fifth-grade ELA decline, further PLC work at site level, and public posting of data and dashboard materials for community access were requested by trustees.
