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Board hears end‑of‑year reports: stronger reading data, pre‑K open house and expanding college credit options
Summary
District staff reported encouraging end‑of‑year reading and math check results, a successful pre‑K open house and progress expanding college‑credit offerings (including an honors college algebra through Arizona State) and credit‑recovery supports for students.
District staff reported a busy end of the school year and described several student supports and academic results.
Shannon Hudson reported that a pre‑K open house drew about nine families and that community participation at concerts and an all‑school feast was strong. On assessment data Hudson said the K–2 and 3–5 survey and end‑of‑year reading checks (DIBELS) and MAP math check‑ins showed improvement: "it's very, very encouraging," Hudson said, noting fewer students will start the next year in the district reading intervention program.
High‑school staff reported the school finished the year with 95 students and said attendance declined to about 81% for the period referenced; staff linked part of that change to medical leaves and extended trips. The high school said it invited 20 students to credit recovery and that 12 students completed a college composition course (Comp 101) this year, receiving 3 college credits; SHI offered to potentially pay for those credits. Staff described plans to offer honors college algebra through Arizona State as an in‑day honors course and to introduce a home‑economics class next year, noting constraints around class sizes and staffing.
What happens next: staff will continue to refine schedule and course offerings, pursue funding options to support college credits for students and follow up with the board on program structuring for extended school year and retention work.
