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CAASPP 2025 Data Report

The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP for short), is the set of required assessments that we administer to students in the spring. Depending on the student and grade-level, it includes the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments (SBAC) for ELA and Math and the California Science Test (CAST) for Science, among others. The results were recently released, so staff will present them to the Board.

The results provide a transparent measure of our current achievement and allows us to highlight successes and challenges. Connecting our results to the programs that support them allows us to continuously improve. The data allow us to focus our efforts where they are needed most to support the needs of each and every student attending Mountain View Whisman schools. Finally, staff connects the results to our plans for the coming year and beyond.

Enrollment and Attendance Update

Enrollment across our schools continuously drive our staffing and student support decisions across the district. This update highlights that it’s not simply a count taken at the beginning of the school year, but an ongoing adjustment throughout the year. By providing us with a current snapshot of total enrollment, demographic trends, and breaking down the figures by school site, staff gives the Board and the public important, up-to-date information of the shape of our varying schools. Armed with that information, we can make the well-informed decisions about how to guide the district and the education of our students.

A common problem facing many districts across the country since the start of the pandemic has been chronic absenteeism, defined as a student being absent for 10% or more of the school days in the year. In addition to our current statistics and trends, staff will discuss some of the improvements we’ve developed to tackle chronic absenteeism in the district.

Staffing Update 2025

As noted later, a significant portion of our resources are dedicated to employing the staff that are responsible for the education of our students and the operation of our schools. Ensuring we hire and retain high-quality staff is one of the key components of providing an excellent education. This update from staff covers our progress in filling our open positions, challenge areas for hiring, and several strategies we’ll be employing in the coming year.

Program Costs

This is a continuation of the conversation between the Board, staff, and the public around the future direction. Previously, we’ve been looking at the revenue side of the equation: how our assessed value is changing and what we project it to be in the coming years. Here, staff will walk through concrete details about our program costs and where our resources are allocated. As I’ve said before, making deliberate choices now and planning well with the information we have available will give us the best chance to smoothly navigate our future uncertainty while preserving student services and achieving excellence in our schools.

Staff Housing

We have two items related to the district’s Staff Housing at the Sevens, specifically as it relates to the proposed partnership with the Foothill-De Anza Community College District: our Maintenance and Operations Agreement and our Co-Tenancy Agreement. Coming to a mutually acceptable agreement with the community college district is a necessary step on the path of continuing our partnership.