Rosevlle School Board Continues Review of Student Achievement

The District 623 School Board will continue its comprehensive effort to assess student achievement at a study session today (Tuesday).

Board members will review a draft of the district’s “Monitoring Report: Engaging, Supporting and Challenging Each Student to Make Significant Annual Academic Growth.”

The report measures student achievement in three areas: academic growth, as measured by the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP); proficiency, as measured by the Minnesota Comprehensive Achievement Tests (MCA), and attendance.

The report shows that the district is in the top 10 percent nationally in mathematics growth (progress students make from the start to the end of the school year) and in the top 15 percent nationally in reading growth.

The district’s students have consistently scored at a higher level than the state average on MCAs in math and reading, though at a lesser extent this year, in part because of a new, more difficult version in mathematics, the MCA III, which was given to students in grades 3-8.  Students took the test electronically for the first time this year, as well.

Attendance remains very high for all students in the district (96 percent), and for all schools, with the exception of Fairview Alternative High School.

Board members will review more detailed information about subgroups of students at the session this evening, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the district center, 1251 County Road B2, Roseville.

The monitoring report can be viewed at www.isd.org/schoolboard/documents/BoardPacket.pdf.