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Griffin‑Spalding board hears I‑Ready fall results: strong K gains, a third‑grade dip and attendance worries
Summary
District MTSS coordinator presented I‑Ready beginning‑of‑year data showing kindergarten and first‑grade gains (kindergarten 100% 'ready to learn'), a notable drop around third grade and continued middle‑school challenges; trustees pressed for interventions and reports linking chronic absenteeism to low performance.
Dasha Phillips, the district MTSS coordinator, told the Griffin‑Spalding County Board of Education on Sept. 23 that fall I‑Ready diagnostics show 61% of K–8 students are "ready to learn" in reading and 59% in math at the start of the 2025–26 year.
Phillips highlighted early‑grade strength: "We have 100% of our kindergarteners ready to learn," she said, and noted first‑grade readiness at 92%. But she and trustees flagged a consistent decline beginning in third grade — reading readiness dips to the mid‑50s for third graders — and lower percentages across several middle‑grade cohorts.
Why it matters: trustees said the third‑grade drop is a critical inflection point because students move from "learning to read" to "reading to…
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