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District 11 presents mixed CMAS results; board presses for faster interventions and regular reporting
Summary
At a Sept. 10 work session, Colorado Springs School District 11 leaders said statewide CMAS results show modest, uneven gains — notably middle-school math and sixth-grade growth — and outlined classroom-level interventions, model classrooms and more frequent reporting; the board asked for faster action on low-performing teachers and quarterly implementation updates.
Colorado Springs School District 11 leaders on Sept. 10 told the board that statewide CMAS results returned a mixed picture: some pilot classrooms and middle grades showed gains, but overall district performance remains below the levels officials say the community expects.
"Our bottom line upfront, we did not perform at the level that I hope that the district would perform," Superintendent Gault said as he opened the work session and set an urgent tone for the briefing and follow-up work.
District staff and academic leaders framed the results using the state School Performance Framework (SPF), explaining that elementary and middle SPF scores are calculated roughly as a 60% weight on growth and 40% on achievement. "The school performance framework ... is basically a 60 40 split between 60% is growth, 40% is achievement," Dr. Kolicky told the board, and he cautioned that growth measures can lag and small schools can show volatile results when subgroup counts fall below the statistical-suppression threshold.
The data included some concrete gains: presenters said middle-school math rose about 4%…
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