Lodi school board goes over CAASPP scores

The Lodi Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday received a preliminary report on California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress scores for the 2017-18 school year, which Randy Malandro, coordinator of assessment, research and evaluation, said was developed after compiling scores from individual students as complete scores will not be available until early December.

Third, fourth, sixth and eighth grades increased their percentages of students meeting or exceeding English and language arts standards with third grade showing the largest gain of 7 percent, the report said, while fifth, seventh and 11th grades had a decrease in students making those same standards although 11th grade had the highest overall percentage of students meeting the standards with 48 percent.

Third, fourth and sixth grades saw the largest increases of students meeting or exceeding math standards, with third grade showing the highest overall percentage at 42 percent and sixth grade showing the largest gain of 4 percent, while fifth, seventh, eighth and 11th grades showed a decrease in students meeting those same standards.

School board president George Neely said that, when district staff compile the full report later in the year, they should not only compare their results to other schools and other districts, but should also look at performances at the same schools in years past as well.

“We should be looking at whether or not what we’ve been doing has been working for our students,” Neely said.

Although the report showed that 28 of 47

schools surveyed had an increase and three schools maintained their percentages of students meeting or exceeding standards from the 2016-17 school year, school board member Ron Heberle

said the next report should also look more closely at the 15 schools that saw a decrease.

“If we don’t also look at the decrease, we’ll never get those students into the increase column,” Heberle said.