##VIDEO ID:vc5673iv2WU## but the way the data the way that we put the D the data together this year uh for mcass and accountability uh we did a little bit different um so um you can see that on the left side of the table you have the grade level you have the uh content and then you have the meeting exceeding partially meeting or not meeting if you go to that one column over you'll see it's a 24 bmrsd results the next column is the 23 bmrsd results so you can see year-over-year how we are how we did and then you'll see the 2024 State results and so the colors are connected to how we did compare to the state so if we are something is shaded in green it means that we beat the state average uh collectively so when I say collectively I mean exemplary um I'm sorry exceeding and meeting uh is how the numbers are actually added and put together um so you'll notice that in grade three Ela we had 50% of our students are meeting or exceeding state level uh expectations Statewide for grade three Ela we were at 42% so we far exceeded the state uh average again not that that's the you know the ultimate threshold but it's a really good Benchmark to see if our kids are on target so green is good it means that we beat the state um and then of course on the opposite end of that uh for for not meeting if it is green that means we are lower than the state average right because we want fewer kids in that category you'll notice I didn't highlight The partially meeting not because those students are not important they're very very important uh but as far as how the district is measured on its progress toward our goals uh those exceeding in meeting numbers and the not meeting numbers are are weighted heavily so I'm just calling those out so you can see as compared to the state how we did uh in grade three um e we exceeded uh the state averages quite significantly for um Ela um and then also we're our warning rate is half of the state's warning rate in third grade so it's also if you look at the 2023 results in the column right next to it um you'll see that we were at 12% last year this year we're at 9% when the results were um released I did email this out to folks so that you do have I'm sure most of you have seen this already l in our in his evidence yeah uh for grade three math again you can see uh our exceeding and meeting percentages um exceeded the states the state was at 45% meeting and exceeding and we were at 56% so again quite quite a significant difference um and the state average for not meeting was at 20 we were at 13 so that gives you a general sense uh simil similar story in fourth grade um you can see beat the say averages for meeting and exceeding and now you're seeing our student growth percentile right the target was 50 we're at 51 so you can start to see uh a little bit more data is incorporated as we go through looking at fourth grade math uh again exceeding the state averages for meeting and exceeding and exceeding the state averages for not meeting fifth and sixth grade is where we started to have a problem in our student per performance this year so if we pause in fifth grade for a minute now you're starting to see the red so you can see that the state actually outperformed the district um so for fifth grade ELA uh we took a big step back a big step back last year uh not only as it relates to how we performed against the state but how we performed against ourselves from the prior year um and so you can see at fifth grade ELA as a as a state overall they were at 38% meeting or exceeding which is really low uh we were lower than that we're at 30 uh we didn't have any students in the exceeding category and I'll talk about what we're doing about this in a minute um but I think a more important story to tell is look at what happened from 2023 to 2024 you know we at 49% of our class was at meeting or exceeding whereas in 23 we were at 30% so again different kids but it's still important to to note the other piece that I I really want to call out is our low student growth in this particular grade in this subject so the kids didn't move um sometimes you'll see low achievement but a higher student growth that means that the kids grew right like they so for whatever reason that particular class is struggling but they're showing a lot of progress this story is one that is of great concern because not only did the kids not achieve but they didn't grow um so that was last year's um fifth grade students those are our current sixth grade students um so we are now at the process just so you know not only are we have we done the beginning of year um assessing but we uh are looking at this mcast data by grade by class excuse me within each grade so you can actually run section by section reports so I can see all of the you know this particular class I can see each of the fifth grade teachers I can see each of the individual kids the strands and the standards and the question types what percentage of those question types the kids got correct to which ones they didn't like we are in the weeds as deep in this as we can get to figure out what the heck happened here and those of you that have been following our fifth grade results uh for the past few years this is this hasn't happened before um so if you are surprised I think you're right to be a lot of us were we saw this and said what the heck that is not a grade that we have had this issue with in the past um fifth grade math so this is interesting right so now you can see our SCP is at 51 um we came in a little bit lower uh in fifth grade with our performance for uh meeting and exceeding than we did in 2023 it's yellow because we're within five points of the state averages so we're within Striking Distance to where the state is um look at the not meeting so we 5% of our kids not meeting this year versus 14% at the state level so quite a significant difference there um but you can see that our kids grew in the 51st percentile so this is a story that says we made some progress they grew where we wanted them to grow at least from the kind of the The Benchmark uh perspective um but did not do as well as we were hoping and you're going to see that when we look in sixth grade uh if we want to scroll down to grade six which is right underneath that um actually before we do that Tim can you scroll right here to just scroll down a little bit to science there is a really great story to tell with our science scores across the district um look at the difference as far as our meeting and exceeding numbers in science we went from 42% to 55% in one year but look at the difference compared to the state we we have 20% of our kids in fifth grade Statewide that are failing the science exam compared to our 8% which again we're not happy about the 8% but it is a far less um far less um than this overall State average it's about on par with where we were in 2023 um but again we're 56 55% meeting and exceeding compared to the states 44% that's a significant difference um so again you know there's good news to tell in in some of this data and a lot of the data so an important highlight in our accountability targets again we were talking about that the complex met 58% of the overall student goals so they set an aggregate goal and then they set your lowest performing student goal so we got 58% of all the uh student goals that were set and we got 76% for the lowest performing kits that speaks to uh a very strong uh multi-tiered systems of support or response to intervention model that you've heard the complex or Jenny talk about before um so now we segue down into grade six um this again was a uh story that confused a lot of us because if you know that cohort of students those were the fifth graders last year that had such strong results um so like I mentioned with the fifth grade results we are in the weeds of looking at the specific sections the students the standards we're doing the same thing with grade six because again if you look at the sgps they are incredibly low they are some of the lowest we have so this says not only did kids not perform they didn't grow but I will say that this is one of this sixth grade in English and math is one of the few places that this happened so fifth grade ELA was the other and sixth grade was another place um and can see compared to the state uh they were far below where the state averages are um but if you look at grade six Math you can see we bested the state but not by a significant amount and frankly when you look at the not meeting percentages from 2023 to 2024 they they increased so a lot of work to do in grade six in terms of figuring out what happened if we scroll to grade seven you'll see a bit of a different story so we are within Striking Distance compared to the state uh which is one piece of the story but look at where we are in 2024 compared to where we were in 2023 so in 2023 we had 20% of our seventh graders meeting or exceeding expectations in 2024 we're at we're at 33% so that's a that's a huge increase look at the not meeting rates we are at n uh 23% to um in 2023 to to last year we were um sorry 23% at 2023 to last year we were at 19% so we saw a decrease there and we're also below the state as well uh for 2024 math is uh similar you can see we went from if you look at the 23 results we are at 27% meeting and exceeding and last year we were at 35% so we saw a nice increase there and look at the drop and warning rate we're at 23% warning we dropped that down to nine but look at the state warning rate State warning rate was at 19% we were at nine so you I I know there's a lot of numbers and and such for particular I know the school committee has seen this kind of data a bunch of times for our families at home but you you really have to look at all of it to get the true picture anybody can pick up a number and say ah these achievement rates are so low is atrocious like and it's a lot of information and I think what's important to know is like you just said you get it down to the student Y and can narrow into the classrooms and the when the state puts it out and you go to des's website you're looking at the district you're look you're like I think it's important to know that this is Jason's presentation to us and he dwindled down the numbers for us because it would be impossible for us to see where the but also important important to note that it shows that he's really focused on figuring out where the deficits are and and how to you know help those those classrooms and students grow um so I appreciate this data because when you do look at the snapshots of districts you're not getting this you're not and you're this just shows that Jason's digging into the student and we have over 1500 of them so it it's a lot it's a lot of numbers and it's and it's hard to understand to to the lay person so time and effort is noted here um when we shift to e8th grade eth grade tells a really interesting story so if you look at the eth grade ELA you see red and right red is not red is not good it means we were below the state averages I want to draw your attention to our student growth though so you can see our SGP in grade 8 Ela was 51 so this is an example of what I was talking about where the overall achievement isn't where we want it to be but the kids are growing so if you look at in 2023 our eighth graders were at 25 5% meeting or exceeding in 2024 eighth graders are at 30% so we saw an increase in meeting and exceeding rates which is great um our not meeting numbers we're at 30% that's high it's a little bit lower than where it was the year before but it's above the state average so I we colored it red but this is one of those where you need to Erin's point you have to have all the numbers to get a real picture because the kids also grew in the 51st percentile that means that they outgrew half of their peers that had the same score as them the year prior that's actually that's actually good um so this is an indicator that shows the kids are making progress they're on the right track these are our current freshmen um and then look at mathematics right so if you look at the mathematics results we went from in 20123 we had 19% of our kids meeting or exceeding till last year we were at 34% and as a state they're at 39% so we're about 4% away from where the state averages are look at our not meeting percentages we went from 34% of our kids in 2023 not meeting to 9% that is tremendous and the state averages for 2024 is 19% we're at 9% so we're far below where the state averag is and look at the SGP they grew in the 61st percentile that means they outperformed 61% of their P that had the same score as them the year before this is a class we've been watching for years these are freshmen now mhm but this has been the notor like that went through middle school with what's going on what so this shows just that bottom nine not meeting it shows that something changed something was implemented and the and the IT improved all of the work that was put into digging into these numbers from three years ago it it shows the growth for our teachers really and one of the shifts we did to to help um on both ends the teachers was we did school we did school and better tutoring uh in grade eight we targeted specifically so there was uh virtual tutoring there was imperson tutoring and remember the grade 8 Academy students moved over to the high school in the morning it made those classes smaller so they actually had fewer fewer students in their classes that they could do more targeted work with just for the first couple of per periods of the day um so that was good to see and you can see the growth in the 61st percentile that's that's tremendous that they exceeded what would be expected of them um and then if you scroll a little bit uh down Tim if you just scroll just a little down uh you'll see the science results um and I think this is important to note as well um if you look at our science scores you will see they are up significantly so they're at 19% meeting or exceeding the in 2023 last year we're at 35% um that's tremendous growth and we're about 5% below where the state is or six uh what is that six is that 5% yeah um so we're we are we are close to the state average as far as that but it's highlighted in yellow because we're 5% off but look at the not meeting numbers if you scroll down a little bit lower Tim um you'll see the oh the other direction there there you go keep going right here so you'll see we went from 43% not meeting which is completely unacceptable and I think everybody would agree with that to 14% so that's a huge decrease and the state average was 20% not meeting we at 14 again a lot of work and refresh us on what changes were made to our science curriculum for to Target this too so we yeah so uh we have adopted uh for science the um mcra mcra Hill excuse me core program and now we're looking this year to even go a step further and augment the labs through this new virtual uh the Virtual Lab um model that's tremendous so that's work from before that he's brought to us but it is paying off now with with time and effort yeah we're really excited to see this um the results here and remember this isn't just 8th grade right it's eighth grade test but this is is assessing grade six and seven as well um which I think is important to note and a really important data point and again to Erin's Point like if you're not digging through the accountability tab you're not going to see this like nobody will know that this is even there frankly they just look at the overall achievement but the high the Middle School met 79% of the student goals set by the Department of Education overall 79% of those goals and so I would challenge any other Middle School to show that they made that level of of progress you look at one number and I get it you look at the achievement number in grade six I can understand where people's concerns but you have to look at when we were from 23 to 24 how we compare to the state and then what was the actual scaled score Target that Desi set for us and if we met it and we met almost 80% of those targets so a shout out to the team that was doing that work um and then we'll shift gears and look at the high school um the high school tells really interesting story because and if you look at the 10th grade ELA scores um they actually exceeded the average scaled score that desie set for them um so while the overall number of meeting and exceeding is is essentially spoton with what it was in 2023 they lifted their scaled scores because you have more kids that are in the exceeding category um so that's a really good news story to tell you can see we were within five points of the state one point yeah I know I highlighted it because we were still lower but uh of of the state average and then in the not meeting uh we went from 9% to seven in the state average of high school 10th grade was at 12 so BMR is you can see collectively the schools are doing good work we're not we haven't arrived nobody's claiming Victory or waving a flag but we're making really good progress um in math the concern there was the low SGP um you can see that we although again lifting the the number and the percent of kids that are at the exceeding uh category by five points and again it's usually about 100 kids so it's about five students um overall they actually receive uh three of the I think it was three of three of the four their accountability points for their scaled score so they made really nice progress there um they beat the state average as far as not meeting just by a point um something we're looking very closely at are those 12 students in the not meeting those those students have to test again so we're in the weeds of finding out what the standards and strands are for that and then if you scroll down uh we're almost done thank you for hanging with me here uh to the biology um again an incredible story to tell we went from 34% and remember that was a smaller and size that was a smaller group of kids uh that were tested went from 34% to 53% so a really good news story but the not meeting kids we went from 6 to 12 so again we've got to figure out what the heck happen there and those kids will retest um but some really good news overall and then Tim if you just scroll to the last page and I promise I'll wrap up with this piece for the data end of it um this is all the accountability data that I was talking about and I do want to run through this quickly because I think it's important to highlight um again the complex met uh overall um 68% of their targets um I'm sorry the uh the high school met 68% it should say the high school 68% of their uh targets and 15% of their lowest performing students that's where the work is one of the pieces of work is that needs to be done and I think you're going to and if you heard Jill mentioned earlier and I know people talk about charger time you hear like some kids are coloring and some kids are watching a movie in the auditorium I would pose very few kids are doing those things we have only 15% of our lowest performing students met their targets the students in that bucket are not coloring and watching movies the students in that bucket are in intervention um we we have to lift that bottom and that's the 12% we were looking at that's those students so we've got a lot of work to do for me that raises the question is charge your time long enough right asking for that number of you know yeah um and then the overall how we did as a district so overall as a district we only got one out of our four points for English language arts achievement that is the curriculum we are focusing on this year and I you you probably heard all of the uh principles discussing writing and literacy U that is a major Focus for us and our curriculum team this year will show up on my goals um is going to focus on what are some of the kind of the tweaks we need to make to the literacy curriculum but what specifically in writing do we need to be doing differently I will tell you I taught a writing course today in the Middle School it was grade seven um it was it was great um I taught a sixth grade science in a seventh grade writing class today here uh to do some coverage for one of the teachers so she could go to some training we have just squashed the love of writing out of the kids and we I had a long conversation with the kids in that section about it uh and so we sort of scrapped what the the teacher left um I got in a little bit trouble with her when she came back but I did some of the work she asked me to do with them um but we just did some free writing and it was like it was almost freeing to the kids like they just wrote and they looked at me they're like what do you mean we're going to free write I'm like well write what's on your mind what's on your heart what are some things you need to discuss what do you need to get off your chat chest what are you worried about what are you wondering about and the kids were all like are you kidding do we really get to do this and we just 15 minutes that's all we did it was for 15 minutes it was amazing and the kids that were like well I don't really know what to write about I said well then write that they're like well what do you mean write that I'm like well write down I don't know what to write about so he's like I don't know what to write about I'm like okay now if you didn't know what to write about what would you write about and he's like that doesn't even make sense that's but they started writing they were talking they were it was really a great EX size and we need to get to more of that and I think you're going to see more of of those opportunities for kids instead of just that structured rigid is a place for that but that can't be all we do so I won't run through all of the points but you can see um we did well we did well overall um our four-year graduation our cohort number I think is a little misleading um we were like a point off of the Target and we're at almost 90% And that's the cohort it's not the annual it's how many kids started as freshmen and finished as seniors and these are kids we're accountable for by the way that aren't here anymore like they've they've gone to other high schools but because they started in our cohort they count in our number um so some of these kids we have no control over some of them we can't find they've gone to you know two or three schools but they started here as freshmen so if we can't trace them and they're not in the in The Sims data system for desie we own them so they could have moved out of state out of country two high schools later and they but they started with us as freshman so they're counted as a withdrawal or a drop if you can't find them how many of those do we have not a lot but there were a few there were absolutely a few Jill and I didn't we couldn't trace the kids we couldn't find them Jill Fallas um so again there not a lot but when you have a you have 110 kids in a class right like three or four kids is a it's a big percentage so I thought that was a little kind of bogus because we were like a point away from where we needed be and our cohort rate graduation rate was just about 90% so it's not like it was a terrible so that's a bit misleading um but our dropout rate I mean we have that down to we were like 1.3% which is so incredibly low uh but even that we're trying to we're hoping that this year that we're half of that um and that's just individual case management um our elll huge shout out to Jill and the elll team um they exceeded all the targets that were I mean like far exceeded the target set for them we got all of our points there our chronic absenteeism we got all of our points there um we we didn't get any points in our Advanced coursework because there were a couple of uh Project Lead the Way and AP courses we didn't run so those points are accounted for by Project Lead the Way in advanced placement