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Trustees press staff after winter NWEA: South El Monte flagged for low achievement and low growth
Summary
Trustees pressed district staff on school-level disparities after winter NWEA results showed significant red/yellow cohorts. Board members singled out South El Monte for regression and asked for targeted interventions and resource allocations; Mountain View and Arroyo were cited as models for growth strategies.
Trustees at the Feb. 19 special meeting asked district officials to explain why a large share of students showed no growth or regression on the winter NWEA assessment and which schools were most affected.
"That 35, almost like, 35, 36% that did not make any growth at all or go going back, regressing," Trustee Qui Nguyen said, citing figures in a January memo and asking staff to localize the data to specific campuses. Alex Sanchez said the percentage reflects first-year implementation effects across the district but identified South El Monte High as a site with low achievement and low conditional growth.
Trustee Ricardo Padilla, who repeatedly pressed for accountability and support for struggling students, praised Mountain View for one of the highest growth rates and urged the district to identify and scale what worked there. Board members asked staff to provide disaggregated data by school and subgroup and suggested a board study session to examine interventions, tutoring allocations and other equity-focused responses.
Staff response and next steps: presenters recommended deeper, micro-level analysis at a future study session and promised to bring site-level disaggregation, including ethnicity and other subgroup filters, to help trustees weigh targeted resource decisions.
