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North Brunswick presents 2024–25 NJSLA results, flags subgroup gaps and readies for new adaptive test
Summary
Mercy Chen, the district’s director of accountability, told the board the district administered 6,736 spring 2025 NJSLA tests, highlighted wide gaps for English language learners and students with disabilities, and described tutoring, MTSS and curriculum steps while warning that a state vendor change to an adaptive platform (Tide/Cambium) complicates near-term comparison.
Mercy Chen, the district’s director of accountability and special programs, presented the North Brunswick Township School District’s 2024–25 NJSLA results at the board’s Sept. 24 meeting and highlighted persistent gaps across subgroups even as some grade levels showed improvements.
“This year we administered 6,736 tests,” Chen said, noting the count includes ELA, math and science across grades 3–9 (ELA and math) and science at grades 5, 8 and 11. She told the board the district’s average ELA scale score was higher than some prior internal reports and that proficiency bands still cluster near level three statewide; she also pointed to a notable decline in ninth-grade ELA performance.
Chen called attention to subgroup disparities: “Our English language learners continue to struggle — 61% of them scored at level one on the ELA assessment and only 2% scored at level four,” she said, and she reported large shares of students…
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