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Frankfort High reports year'end gains on I-Ready and SAT baseline; district to expand high-school reading interventions
Summary
School leaders reported growth on I-Ready across grades, a SAT baseline for 19 sophomores, and plans to move a year'long reading intervention to sophomore year while splitting intervention blocks and hiring a counselor to address social-emotional barriers to class attendance.
School officials presented a detailed year-end academic update for Frankfort High School at the Frankfort Independent Board meeting on May 27, reporting gains on I-Ready diagnostics, an initial SAT baseline for opt-in sophomores, and a package of changes to reading and dual-credit supports for next year.
The presenter said I-Ready screenings this year showed growth in every grade and test administration, with the largest gains among juniors. "By the end of the year we got over 60% of those kids on benchmark or above," the presenter said, describing the 11th grade as the primary testing grade.
The meeting included the district's first SAT administration for sophomores who opted in; the presenter said 19 sophomores took the test. Reported benchmarks were: sophomore cumulative 910 (reading/writing 430, math 480) and junior cumulative 1,000 (reading/writing 490, math 510). Administrators said juniors already reach higher averages because the entire junior cohort took the test.
To sustain and accelerate gains, the presenter outlined several changes for 2026'27: move the year-long reading intervention course from freshman to sophomore year to better identify students with sustained needs; split a 75-minute intervention block into dedicated reading and math segments; expand CREST interventions to include 9th'11th graders during mentoring periods; and hire a new counselor with small-group and individual social-emotional expertise to address chronic truancy and attendance-related referrals (presenter attributed roughly 48% of office referrals to skipping or attendance issues).
Officials also described supports for asynchronous dual-credit courses, including on-site teacher facilitation to increase student engagement with online material. The presenter said the district will begin SAT-focused preparation but will adjust if statewide testing requirements change.
The board did not take a formal vote on these instructional changes at the meeting; administrators described them as planned implementation steps for next school year.
