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Board hears substance-incident counts, semester pass/fail data and plans for credit recovery
Summary
Officials reported semester 1 substance incidents by campus and secondary pass/fail counts (with district staff linking much of the failure to attendance); the board discussed credit recovery practices and plans to reduce online-only recovery for seniors.
The superintendent and principals presented several operational reports to the board covering substance incidents, pass/fail rates and credit recovery strategies.
Superintendent Dr. Chanel Segura gave campus-level counts for semester 1 substance incidents: Press reported none; PBIS had 2 nicotine incidents; the 6th-grade academy had 1 THC pill; Pojoaque Valley Middle School recorded 4 THC vapes and 2 nicotine vapes; and Pojoaque Valley High School had 16 THC vapes and 28 nicotine vapes. Segura described interventions including parent meetings, PIP referrals, community-service assignments and assemblies coordinated with local law enforcement and court partners.
On student performance, Segura and principals reported secondary semester 1 failing counts: the 6th-grade academy had 8 of 125 failing core courses, 7th grade 27 of 102 and 8th grade numbers reported; at the high school level, examples included 9th grade 39 of 138, 10th grade 34 of 133, 11th grade 33 of 117 and 12th grade 20 of 146 failing one or more classes. The district estimated about 75% of those failures were tied to attendance and outlined targeted interventions and credit-recovery programs (including a Title I math camp, summer credit recovery and Grad Alliance supports).
Principal Ryan Cordova and board members discussed credit-recovery staffing and oversight: Cordova said one staff member is currently assigned to the program with additional Grad Alliance support and that the district will move toward in-class recovery for students who failed coursework (reducing reliance on remote, online-only models). Board members asked how to ensure accountability when students work off-campus; staff said they track logins and weekly progress metrics and will require in-person instruction for many credit-recovery courses in the next year.
Board members urged earlier intervention (7th–11th grades) to prevent the spike in failures seen in secondary grades and asked for follow-up plans showing how attendance and earlier interventions will be tracked.
