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Somerville board hears midyear progress: K–5 proficiency up, district to re-run climate survey
Summary
Somerville administrators reported midyear gains on K–5 reading and math benchmarks and outlined next steps to use a New Jersey school‑climate survey to guide school-level improvements; board members pressed for subgroup breakdowns and participation rates.
Somerville — Administrators told the Somerville Board of Education that midyear assessment data show meaningful progress in early grades and that a districtwide climate survey will be used to guide school-level changes.
Mary Kaine, a district presenter, said K–5 on‑or‑above grade‑level rates rose by about 20 percentage points from the start of the year to midyear on the I‑Ready and classroom observation measures, and that students one grade below decreased roughly 13 percentage points while students two or more grades below dropped about 6 points. At the middle‑school level, presenters reported roughly an 8‑point gain in reading and math on comparable measures.
Those gains, Kaine said, reflect a combination of observational preschool data, I‑Ready diagnostic growth,…
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