District reports steep, grade-by-grade gains on spring 2026 assessments

District staff presented spring 2026 assessment results showing large year-over-year gains across multiple grades. Julie said no grade lost math proficiency compared with spring 2025 and highlighted dramatic increases such as grade 6 math going from 20% to 57% proficiency and grade 10 math rising from 52% to 80%. In ELA, Julie cited grade 10 rising from 49% to 82% and grade 11 from 30% to 81%.

Julie credited consistent classroom testing contexts, teachers’ use of NAWEA/MAP data to rework units, targeted interventions, and curricular adjustments for the gains. Committee members asked how the district might present those results publicly; several members urged a concise, web-friendly summary to help prospective families and community members understand long-term trends as well as year-to-year movement.