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Littleton district reports enrollment bump; staff to give school-level goal presentations next month
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Freeman told the governing board that district enrollment is up about 350 students at the 10-day mark and highlighted successes from the staff kickoff; leaders asked for detailed school-level presentations after administrators noted some goal-measurement anomalies.
Dr. Freeman reported to the Littleton Elementary School District governing board that, at the 10-day mark, "our enrollment is up just over 350 students compared to the same time last year." She thanked welcome-center and front-office staff for handling a high volume of enrollments and described minor delays on bus routes and early-release traffic that have since improved.
The superintendent recapped the district kickoff and the new theme, "Littleton Strong," and noted community partnerships—including Palm Valley Church hosting the kickoff and a donated upright piano for Freeman Fine Arts Academy. She also highlighted school events such as meet-the-teacher nights, free backpack distributions at Quentin STEM Academy, and expanded grade offerings (Lakeham Prep added a 6th grade) as factors in the enrollment trend.
Brian D'Alessio, director of federal programs and assessment, gave an overview of 2023–24 performance goals and how schools measured progress. He said district and school teams used FastBridge, district benchmarks and DreamBox Math to measure early literacy and grades 4–8 math. According to D'Alessio, "7 out of 9 schools achieved their math improvement goals," and most schools showed reductions in chronic absenteeism consistent with the district goal of a 10% reduction.
Board members pressed staff for clarity where some schools appeared to report very low—or even 0%—achievement on particular measures. One board member said, "If I'm sitting here thinking we made no progress, that's—" and asked for school-level presentations; staff agreed. D'Alessio told the board that next month's meetings will include presentations by individual schools to explain how each goal was written and measured and to provide the context behind the reported results.
The board did not take action on the measures at this meeting; staff committed to return with school-specific analysis and to explain the metric definitions and scoring methods.
