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Egg Harbor Township presents 2024-25 state performance report, cites improvements in restraints and overall investigation counts
Summary
At its June 16 meeting the district reviewed the NJ Performance Report for 2024-25 and a midyear student-safety (SSDS) report: graduation rates remained high (4-year 92%, 5-year 94%), while physical restraints fell (74 to 45) and overall investigations decreased (87 to 75); THC-related substance incidents rose.
Assistant Superintendent Lily Moss presented the districts 2024-25 New Jersey performance report to the board and public on June 16, reviewing enrollment demographics, assessment and growth metrics and the districts response to state accountability data.
Moss noted the districts 2024-25 demographics (about 50% free and reduced-price lunch; 17% students with disabilities; 4% multilingual learners) and highlighted the districts graduation performance: a four-year graduation rate of 92% and a five-year rate of 94%, both above statewide averages.
Citing federal accountability measures and the state report, Moss outlined a set of professional-development pathways the district has launched to address gaps identified in state testing data. "We relaunched our professional learning teams and established guiding coalitions in all of our buildings," she told the board, and spelled out targeted literacy and math interventions planned for 2026-27.
Assistant Superintendent George West followed with a midyear student-safety (SSDS) report for reporting period one (SeptemberDecember 2025). West reported an overall decrease in investigations, from 87 to 75 year-over-year, and a sharp districtwide reduction in physical restraints (from 74 to 45). He noted a rise in substance offenses (largely THC-related) and said confirmed bias-related incidents (HIV under NJ law) numbered seven in the midyear period.
"Our total incidents went from 87 to 75," West said, adding that the districts prevention ecosystem includes therapy dogs, character-education lessons and an expanded counseling and MTSS support network. He said the district would continue targeted work in the middle schools, where many confirmed bias incidents were concentrated.
The board heard these reports as part of a wider review of curriculum and safety work completed this school year and the actions managers said they have taken in response to 2024-25 outcomes: new K-3 screeners, pilot literacy programs for grades 4-8, coaching pathways in math and expanded PD for tiered interventions.
What happens next: district leaders said they will post the performance reports on the district website (and the NJDOE portal); they will continue the PD pathways and present a full fall SSDS update covering Septemberthrough June.
Attribution: reporting in this article quotes Assistant Superintendent Lily Moss and Assistant Superintendent George West from the June 16 meeting transcript.
