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Antigo district highlights spring assessment gains and awaits ACT rescoring
Summary
District instructional leaders told the board spring AIMSweb benchmarks show gains—particularly in reading—while the ACT vendor notified districts of a re-score for online spring testing; results are expected to be updated in early June.
District academic leaders presented spring benchmark data that showed measurable growth in reading across multiple buildings, described intervention successes and flagged areas for focused improvement while awaiting reissued ACT scores.
The district’s director of curriculum and instruction told the board this was the first year the district administered AIMSweb K–12 as a single screener in compliance with Act 20. She said staff use fall, winter and spring screeners to form intervention and enrichment groups and to make instructional adjustments. "We really drill down to every student and then we benchmark them again in winter ... and we realign our instructional decisions based on that data," she said.
High school staff reported they had moved 74 students out of interventions this year and highlighted increases in reading proficiency: one building’s share of students scoring below grade level decreased from 46.5% in the fall to 32% in the spring, a 14.5-point improvement. Principals credited instructional coaching, revised curricula and targeted programs including TransMath and LanguageLive for gains in specific cohorts.
District leaders also told the board they received notice from ACT that an online-scores reissue was required for some students tested during the spring in-district window. The notice sets a June 2 date for reissued scores; district staff said they do not expect scores to decrease but the distribution of reissued scores may alter reported percentages.
Board members asked for clarity on incomplete testing (some students missed portions due to sports, AP testing and finals) and emphasized that the district wants parent-facing reports to reflect accurate, retested student results.
The board received the presentations and asked administrators to return with corrected or completed data where appropriate; no action was required at the meeting.
Key quotes from the meeting include the curriculum director: "This is the very first year that we have completed AIMS web testing for the whole district for K through twelfth grade," and a high school presenter on ACT re-scores: "They said June 2 has a date, and I think it's in that letter from them; we don't know which students they are going to rescore."
