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District 11 reports mixed midyear academic gains, highlights coaching and model-classroom work
Summary
District staff presented midyear metrics showing modest gains in some grades and schools, described targeted $1 million midyear investments and expanded coaching, model-classroom and IXL interventions, and highlighted urgency with about 42 instructional days until spring testing.
District 11’s academic team told trustees the district is seeing a mix of progress: some schools show rising median growth percentiles (MGPs) and increased percent passing in ELA, while others — particularly in math — continue to lag. Staff framed the work as an incremental, data-driven strategy aimed at steepening positive trends before spring testing.
Instructional staff explained three core measures used to track progress: percent meeting or exceeding standards, movement out of the lowest-performance bands, and student growth percentiles (SGP)/median…
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