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Tabernacle district scores 70% on state review; board adopts improvement plan and schedules preschool expansion meeting
Summary
Superintendent reported the district scored 70% in the NJQSAC Instruction & Program category (below the 80% pass threshold). The board accepted the NJQSAC review, approved a District Improvement Plan to address testing performance, and announced a Nov. 13 meeting about expanding preschool from three to seven classrooms.
The Tabernacle Township School District accepted its New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) District Performance Review for 2023–24 and approved a District Improvement Plan after Superintendent Shaun Banin reported the district earned 70% in the Instruction and Program category, below the state’s 80% passing threshold.
Banin told the board that while curriculum indicators received full points, lower state testing results for the 2022–23 school year depressed the district’s score, requiring the district to institute a District Improvement Process (DIP) and implement corrective strategies. He said the district has already begun several actions highlighted in an earlier NJSLA presentation by Assistant Principal Nicole Angiolino and will continue collaborating with a coalition of superintendents advocating changes to the QSAC scoring methodology beginning in 2025–26.
The board formally approved the DIP at the Oct. 21 meeting and accepted the NJQSAC report. The minutes list NJQSAC area placements as follows: Instruction and Program 70%, Fiscal Management 100%, Governance 100%, Operations 83%, Personnel 100%.
As part of district planning, administrators announced an informational meeting scheduled for Nov. 13 to discuss a preschool expansion that would increase preschool from three to seven classrooms and move fourth grade to Kenneth R. Olson Middle School. The superintendent said a letter to families with details would be sent the following day.
The board noted the DIP’s focus on raising student performance on state assessments; the minutes indicate that some strategies are already in motion but do not specify exact timelines or measures for each strategy. The district said it will continue to work with regional partners on QSAC scoring issues that may change state calculations starting with the 2025–26 school year.
The board’s acceptance of the NJQSAC findings and approval of the DIP were recorded in the minutes under the superintendent’s recommendations.
