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Board adopts revised high-school rubric tied to FAFSA participation
Summary
The Trousdale County School Board unanimously adopted a revised high-school rubric that gives schools two ways to meet a FAFSA-related metric: a 5% increase over prior-year application rate or achieving a 90% FAFSA applicant rate.
The Trousdale County School Board approved a revised high-school accountability rubric that changes how the FAFSA metric is measured. The motion, moved by Mr. Atwood and seconded by Miss Peddie, passed unanimously after brief discussion.
Under the adopted Recommendation 1, a school can meet the FAFSA metric by either raising its FAFSA application rate by 5 percentage points above the previous year or by reaching a 90% applicant rate in the current year. Board members said the change gives staff two pathways to show improvement and was the product of earlier work at the board’s work session.
Nut graf: The change is intended to provide flexibility to schools that face year-to-year variation in FAFSA completion. Board members emphasized the district’s outreach efforts — including a mandatory Tennessee Promise meeting for seniors and in-school assistance — and urged continued focus on FAFSA support to ensure students receive federal aid.
During discussion, trustees asked staff to confirm the metric language and to have administrators continue outreach efforts that assisted families with FAFSA completion. The board completed the vote without recorded roll-call tallies; the Chair announced the motion “pass[ed] unanimously.”
The board directed staff to finalize rubric language for the high school and to continue monitoring FAFSA completion efforts. The rubric change takes effect for the current evaluation cycle.
