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IB coordinator tells board a co-seeding pilot increased IB enrollment by 55% and helped students switch transcripts
Summary
An IB coordinator told trustees that a 2023 board-approved co-seeding pilot of CP English with IB language and literature led to a 55% enrollment increase and that 163 CP English juniors changed transcripts to IB, with most earning A or B grades.
During public comment, an IB program coordinator told the board that the district's co-seeding pilot — which pairs CP English juniors with IB language & literature instruction — is expanding access and producing measurable enrollment gains.
The speaker (identified in the transcript as "ber crer") said last year 446 students at Granite Bay High were enrolled in at least one IB course, representing "46.5% of juniors and seniors" at that school, and that the school recorded a 55% enrollment increase this year compared with the prior year. The presenter said those gains followed a May 2023 board resolution to pilot co-seeding CP English with IB language and literature.
She reported that when the pilot started there were 297 students on the CP English 11 transcript and 17 students in IB language and literature HL1; by the end of the year 163 additional students had moved from CP to IB, and among those switchers the grades were reported as: approximately 47% A, 32% B, 17% C, 3% D and less than 1% F. The coordinator told trustees that the co-seeding approach gives more students an opportunity to switch to IB courses and earn college credit and higher GPA weighting.
The presenter said a copy of the data was provided to the board. Trustees thanked the speaker and later discussed curriculum oversight and committee structure during the meeting.
