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Miss Peace presents Jefferson's alternative education programs and enrollment figures
Summary
Miss Peace delivered the district's annual update on alternative education options — on-site and off-site programs, homebound instruction and credit recovery — and reported recent enrollment and completion figures while urging continued review of program fit and fiscal sustainability.
Miss Peace presented the Jefferson School District's annual update on alternative education programs, outlining on-site and off-site options used to serve students who need a different path to a diploma. She described programs named in the presentation (SOAR; an off-site senior program recorded in the transcript as "store"; a high-school classroom labeled "Bridal"; homebound instruction; and online credit-recovery offerings) and noted the district sometimes provides instruction to county jail inmates who have not finished high school.
The presenter gave program counts and outcomes. "For homebound, last year, we have 7 students," she said, and described two students who earned credits through a state GED option. She said 17 students graduated from a cited cohort while four did not finish, and reported that a credit-recovery pathway had hundreds of completions over the year (transcript figures cited by the presenter included "about 223 students" in one program and a total of "44 students" enrolled across alternate options in another summary). Miss Peace said staff will review program selection criteria and fiscal viability as enrollment patterns evolve post‑COVID.
Board members asked for detail on which survey items drove the district's engagement indices and whether particular schools or student groups showed persistent gaps; Miss Peace said the district can provide item‑level access and noted the district is monitoring attendance and other lead measures to guide interventions.
