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Superintendent briefs board on district priorities, data tracking and staffing progress
Summary
At a special board meeting, Dr. Heffner reviewed district strategic priorities, reported midyear assessment changes (gains on three EOC tests; a small decline in English II), described use of Panorama for tracking, and highlighted staff recruitment gains and expanded arts participation.
Dr. Heffner, the superintendent, presented the districts strategic priorities and a midyear data summary, noting improvements on three end-of-course tests and a slight decline in English II.
He said the districts first priority is academic excellence, with goals focused on ELA and math achievement and ensuring students progress on time. Midyear EOC administration results show gains on three tests but a "slight slide with English 2," he said. The district uses Panorama to estimate midyear growth and to identify students who need course-code corrections or other data cleanups.
He emphasized the districts MTSS framework for addressing achievement, attendance and behavior, and reported a midyear discipline action rate of 1.7 percent at Airport High School. He described current efforts to improve attendance by contacting families and involving staff.
On graduation tracking, Heffner said the state base file counts cohorts by ninth-grade enrollment; the district reports 273 active seniors at Airport and 245 at BC so far and continues to trace students who transferred out or enrolled in adult education to refine the final graduation rate.
A board member asked about roughly 50 students unaccounted for from an earlier ninth-grade cohort; Heffner said some students transferred, some enrolled in adult ed and the district has reduced unknown-status cases by actively searching records.
He also reviewed recruitment and retention efforts, noting decreased vacancies and that two recent induction-teacher finalists included one district winner, Brooke Hyatt. He listed communications metrics (37 communications to families and 53 press releases this year) and highlighted growth in arts participation tied to a new performing arts center and partnerships across the Midlands.
He offered to share more detailed data at the April board meeting and to provide cleaned files after the spring administration is complete.
