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Curriculum committee reviews Central York SD end-of-year math results
Summary
Staff told the Central York School District curriculum committee that most grade levels showed year-over-year growth in the district’s math growth measure, with notable gains in 4th and 7th grades and a 5th-grade dip attributed to cohort patterns.
The Central York School District curriculum committee reviewed end-of-year math growth data during its July 20 meeting. The staff presenter said the district compares two measures (the HMH platform growth metric and Acadience) against the 2024–25 end-of-year baseline to track changes.
The presenter reported, “we finished the year at 90.5%” in kindergarten (a 1.1 percentage-point decline from the prior year) and said grade 1 finished at 88.9% — “a 4.5% increase over last year.” The presenter highlighted a strong 8.1% increase in 4th grade and called 4th grade historically “one of our lower numbers” because students move into longer multiplication and division skills. By contrast, 5th grade fell 3.6% to 69.7%; staff described that decline as a cohort-level pattern they have been monitoring longitudinally and not an unexpected drop.
Committee members asked whether 9th-grade results represented stalled growth; staff confirmed that the district used the IntoMath/Intimap resource in 9th grade for the first time this year and reported the algebra group finished at 46.2%, noting midyear and end-of-year results were similar. The presenter said some stability reflects first-year pacing and teacher experience with a new 9th-grade algebra deployment, and recommended continued monitoring as implementation matures.
The presentation framed the percentage changes against cohort sizes (for example, kindergarten cohorts were roughly 400 students districtwide, where a 1% change equals a small number of students). Staff recommended tracking these measures over multiple administrations to assess sustained trends.
The committee did not take a formal vote on any policy in response to the data; staff said they would continue to monitor cohorts and return with updates as needed.
