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- Are we making progress on our ‘Academic Success’ Instructional Initiative key
indicators?
- BSD student performance on our key indicators continues to be strong but static,
for a fifth consecutive year. A high percentage of students are meeting standards -- around 75-90% depending on the indicator – but we have seen slight if any gains
- ver time.
- For comparison purposes, statewide progress has been similarly flat over the last
three years, with the exception of gains in science.
- Science is a bright spot: science scores have gradually been increasing over the last
decade (despite the fact that the state tests are no longer aligned to current science standards)
- Three-year progress by cohort is mostly either flat or erratic, with several
- exceptions. Current 6th graders have made steady progress in ELA over the last three
years (74 to 82%), but have decreased proficiency in math over the same time period (80 to 72%). Current 7th graders have similarly declining scores in math (down six points), while current 8th graders have made progress in ELA (up four points).
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- Are students making adequate progress over the course of the year?
- We have substantially more ‘high growth’ students than the national average, and
fewer ‘low growth’ students as well.
- However, an alarming number of our low-performing students are also ‘low growth’,
which means they are not on track to catch up.
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