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Urbana SD 116 presents school improvement plans with attendance and MAP-growth targets
Summary
District staff outlined school improvement goals across multiple schools, including MAP growth targets in ELA and math and chronic-absence reduction goals; staff emphasized data use (Skyward/Panorama) and shared a district goal handout to the board.
Director of Equity and School Improvement Miss Beas presented School Improvement Plans for a cohort of Urbana School District 116 schools, outlining goals and planned activities to improve academic growth and attendance.
Yankee Ridge Multilingual Elementary aims to increase Spanish MAP projected growth for grades 1–4 and ELA MAP growth by 5 percentage points year over year, with math and chronic absenteeism targets (district staff cited a current chronic-absence figure near 23.8% and a goal closer to 20%). For Urbana Early Childhood (prek), staff described assessments tailored to K-bound children (vocabulary checklists and a "connecting numbers to quantity" tool) with targets for increases in expressive labeling and math scores from fall to spring.
Urbana High School presented ELA goals focusing on students in the 21st–100th percentile band (plans to increase the share meeting projected growth by 5–10 percentage points) and a plan to reduce the share of students in the critical attendance category to about 45%. Gerber and Thomas Payne schools set targets around projected MAP growth and reducing time out of class or critical attendance percentages, with activities including curriculum implementation, staff PD, data coaching and targeted interventions.
Board members asked for clarification about how attendance categories and assessments were coded and measured; staff said attendance is tracked in Skyward and that Panorama Student Success data and the district's MAP data were used to create baseline and predictive analyses for new configurations like Yankee Ridge. A handout summarizing district goals was distributed to board members for more visually representative comparison across schools.
