District rolls out data dashboard; trustees press for disaggregated, growth‑oriented measures

Superintendent (S2) and members of the district data team presented a new data dashboard organized around four strategic pillars — belonging/well‑being, academic growth, future‑ready and trustworthy/sustainability — and walked trustees through attendance data, climate and culture survey results, and academic proficiency trends drawn from state reports.

On attendance, staff pointed to median attendance improvements at several high schools and identified a group of students with very high absence counts who drive chronic‑absence statistics. "When you look at this and what we haven't teased out of this is what percentage of these are unexcused absences," the superintendent said while explaining the difference between excused and unexcused absence lenses.

Trustees asked for sample sizes on the climate survey and noted varying participation across schools; staff provided a high‑school student response count for one instrument (1,291 responses) and said family survey responses were about 454 for high schools. Staff cautioned that some state assessment data are lagged and that changes in testing programs (SBAC to MAS, and ACT metrics for high school) make year‑to‑year comparisons imperfect.

Board members and staff discussed potential alternative or complementary metrics — for example, growth measures, passage rates, post‑high‑school plans, concentrator follow‑up for CTE pathways and work‑based learning outcomes — that might better capture the graduate profile trustees want to monitor. Staff said many of those data points exist in district systems and can be expanded and disaggregated for future dashboard iterations.

The presentation included a reminder that state report‑card figures (ESSA/SIR) will be published on a schedule outside the district’s control and that some desired disaggregation may require additional staff work to compile for board reporting.