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Board highlights Carrillo, Jordan and other schools as examples of progress
Summary
Board discussion highlighted several campuses — including Carrillo, Jordan and Alvarado — where African American students showed higher academic performance; staff said the district will study these sites to identify scalable practices.
During the monitoring presentation Chair (speaker 1) and Staff member (speaker 2) identified specific campuses where African American students outperformed peers and suggested studying those schools to scale effective practices. Examples named on the record include Carrillo (secondary), Jordan (secondary) and Alvarado (elementary), among others.
Chair said the data show Carrillo’s African American cohort exceeded peers by about 13 percentage points last year; the transcript lists other sites and notes that the number of secondary schools with that outcome rose from 1 to 6 across quarters. Staff said the district is contacting those campuses to ask what they are doing differently and to arrange visits so other sites can learn.
Board members asked for future reports to document partnerships with non‑profits or other supports used by those campuses. Staff agreed to provide further details in subsequent board materials.
