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Ajo Unified leader cites test-score gains, safety upgrades and seeks performance compensation
Summary
District leadership summarized 2024–25 assessment gains (noting K–8 and high-school proficiency increases), described safety upgrades paid from the physical plant line item (~$118,000), and reviewed performance-based compensation provisions for staff and superintendent.
District leadership summarized a school-year of initiatives and outcomes while presenting performance-based compensation provisions. In the meeting the presenter (identified in the transcript as 'Miss Susan') described professional development participation, reaccreditation work, increased family engagement (monthly newsletters in English and Spanish and parent 'coffee' meetings), and the district’s new administrative salary schedule.
The presenter cited assessment gains: the transcript records K (2024) proficiency at 15.58% and K–8 proficiency for 2025 at 25.68% (a reported 10.1 percentage-point improvement). High school proficiency was reported as 46.67% in 2024 and 64.29% in 2025 (about a 17 percentage-point increase). The district emphasized ongoing work to raise early grades proficiency despite the gains.
Leadership also reported safety and facility investments. The board was told nine new security cameras were installed and campus fencing upgrades were funded from the physical plant line item, a line referenced in the presentation and stated in the transcript as totaling about $118,000. Administration noted this as a completed or in-progress improvement and presented it alongside curriculum and family-engagement accomplishments.
The agenda included annual performance-based compensation items (for administrators and the superintendent). Several compensation provisions and performance-goal processes were reviewed during the study-session portion; the transcript lists the superintendent-related compensation item as requiring board action but does not record an explicit, itemized vote for that specific compensation measure during the meeting transcript. Multiple compensation items were described as study-session information with supporting attachments.
