Now, math, remember at the beginning we had that high concentration of math students that have been identified for high ability and you can clearly see that they are um achieving at their potential. So we've got almost every student that are identified for math or GT that is above that proficiency in the iLearn summitive from grades 3 through eight. And then lastly when we think about that pipeline we think all the way up to high school. Our assessment measure is SAT. Now remember SAT is a college assessment. We are one of the few states that give it to all 11th graders. Um, so we would anticipate our high ability students to be at college ready or even above college ready. And as you can see, they are. They're college ready. Our high ability students are right there. And even more are at that above college ready.
Um this is just kind of a high level of the kind of things that we thought were the the most urgent or things that you should consider addressing in the the near term. Um, and then we, as Tony mentioned, we score all of these things as we're going through the buildings and come up with a composite average score. There is some waiting and we explain all that in the binder. But like your building systems are weighted more. Um, doesn't matter what the lighting and carpet is like in the classroom. If it's too cold or too too hot, students have a hard time learning in it. So, those are the most important aspects. the building systems carry a little bit more weight in this scoring, but just to give you kind of at a glance kind of an average score of each building where they fall on on kind of a gradient there.
Um, they did it though in part to create this cycle. And the cycle is the cycle of good teaching everywhere on the planet, right? First of all, what is it you're going to teach? Then you check and see, do the kids understand what you're teaching? And then if you need to, you respond to it. You can stretch some kids and you can retach some other kids. And then you check again to make sure the retaching worked. And then before you give the summitative, you check one more time. You work with them again and then you give the summitive. So last week, no, two weeks ago, I sat with the middle school math and English teachers and we looked at what's on that summitive test and we said, "Hey friends, here's how many questions are on this set of standards. Are we ready? Do we need to do anything different?
Then just surface level last year doing some things with our whole staff, right? Even though we still weren't teaching the huge concepts of consciousness one yet, they were getting little little pops here and there and it went down tremendously just like that. Okay, so we did realize fast though we needed more. We needed more and you can't teach skills you don't have. So we were like okay what's our next step then so that we can teach our staff and our students more. So we sent a few more a couple more went with us and then we came back and we formed our consciousness committee which um a few are here today and then a couple others who um were on our PBIS committee that we smoothly transitioned to our chat. Some fall off, light fell off, but some were like, "No, I want to know more.
He has quite a few spikes. He's got the forward air. He's got the down air. He's got Oh, shoot. Oh, shoot. Eli fell again. All right, it's one stock to one stock. His side be can His side be can uh can spike. His down be can spike. A lot of spikes on Donkey Kong. shields the sword, remembers to shield twice. I know whenever I played Young Link, that would catch people off guard. Usually they would drop their shield and then I'd be like, "Haha, I'm still in the air." Oh, it goes for an up smash. Tries to punish. Oh, all right. Does another up throw and another up air. Link answering with the same thing again, doing his down air. Oh, and he does a down air again. And and Eli ended up using his punch. So, he's got to charge that up. Or he could just use one of Donkey Kong's other moves cuz this guy freaking hits like a truck.
Before I call on people who have already spoken, does anybody else have any questions or want to say anything? All right, then I'm going to go to David and then to Rachel. >> Thanks, Margaret. I just had a follow-up question. John's question made me um a little curious about then the financial implications of people choicing out in six. So if people were were choosing to choice out um in six if that happened because of the new um academy do you have an idea to like the max number of kids? I mean, I I would never I would not anticipate all the kids maxing out, but I'm just wondering what kind of the maximum hit on the budget that would be for a um choicing out and kind of if there's been surveys done to have an idea as to the potential of what that number might look like.
So >> So [snorts] if you want to send a note to your legislator, reach out to me. She's got all their emails and stuff. So >> yeah, I'll help >> I'll help draft it. I got a budget a button that says fully fund spent if you want that. So >> So you go ahead and make one for everybody. >> Okay. Good. Good. >> Did you just do a presentation somewhere? >> I did. I just presented at the winter [snorts] um administr special ed administrators conference went really really well. Had some really good feedback. So, >> you're going to do it for us. >> Um I mean if you want to I can um I love a microphone and I love the stage. So you just let me know what you want the presentation on. >> Longer. >> Give me a time frame. >> Good. Thanks.
Um, you know, on a school side, it's awful hard to run a daycare when there's one, two, or three kids there all summer long. So, that makes it tough on that side of it as well. So, we need to kind of have that conversation. Um, this could be something that's tabled till next month. If you want some more information from the community, um, I can reach out to a couple people and see where they're at on um, making that happen or what that would even look like going into the summer. If you guys wanted to make a motion for the daycare to be closed at the end of this year school year, you can do that, too. Um, I just need some direction from you guys on what you would like me to do as far as the daycare. >> I do want to address the fact I know there is a lot of questions regarding I mean like the daycare center like what's going to happen to the building, you know, all those type of questions.
Documented conditions including mold present on interior walls, ceilings, and HVAC and structural components. A gas generator is located inside of police headquarters, and that room shares wall and ceiling space with occupied areas within the basement. That room is vented directly to outdoors, allowing unconditioned air to mix with conditioned air. As a result, pipes and HVAC trunk lines sweat continuously, creating standing moisture that leads to persistent mold growth on insulation and ceiling tiles, many of which are repaired or replaced repeatedly throughout the year. These conditions have also contributed to mold development within the HVAC system itself. Based on the recommendations of two professional air quality and remediation companies, we currently operate two commercial air purification and dehumidification systems on a 24-hour basis. And yet mold still exists. The HVAC system is antiquated and insufficient for the building's needs. Due to design limitations and air flow restrictions, certain areas of headquarters are excessively hot during the summer and extremely cold during the winter.
And and I think the school resource officer is a good option because if nothing else, maybe they can put a little fear of God into him. I know. I just >> I I walked out in my my alley to dump the garbage and and there was three boys there that that could have been topnotch athletes, right? and they're standing out in the alley and when they see me come up they know who I am and they have a bottle of whiskey and they hide it behind their these are like 15 16 year old boys and they and and they hide it behind their their back right so I don't see them drinking but I know they're drinking I said hey you're pouring your whiskey on the ground dude you know and not one of them was was in school right not one of them was in school you can imagine and where where those boys are now.
So carrying debt, even though lease purchasing is perfectly legal, well within our capacity to do so, they also had deemed us approaching high risk because we had debt we were paying off. So it's very um these categories have never existed before. They seem to be very politically motivated. Um state treasurer wants to run for um state school superintendent. So there appears to be political motivation in these all these brand new categories that really aren't statutory categories at all. So it was very curious. Um but I felt like we were prepared for the meeting and had adequate answers. John had good numbers for them and and we it lasted maybe 40 minutes or something like that and that was it. So, we did have the meeting um and that was last Thursday. And then, um just a couple things I wanted to talk about. Um we're continuing to turn over every stone looking for savings.
So when we think about where we want to go with high ability, we, you know, looking at the data, we realize that we really need to pull some of our high ability teachers at the elementary level together and think about how can we develop resources, common resources to really extend past um what they're currently doing when they're ready and they're proficient. And so this year we created what we call the elementary highability councils. Um, we have a math council and we have an ELA council. We have high ability teachers from our elementary buildings that meet about three times a semester. Um, and they're working on deliverables. We receive some Kogat training as well, which is the ability achievement tests that we give our students to help us identify high ability students. And so they've really been working on thinking about what are those enrichment activities aligned to our essential standards in ELA and math.
So, we're going to move to the Deli Elementary or Deli Community Middle School. Same thing. This uh this space we're in right now uh as an example is an example of a really good space. Good lighting, uh good furniture. I know the furniture in here is new. Um, Common's cafeteria has a similar feel. Um, very nice high open volumes. Uh, good utilization of the space, combining it with the the cafeteria as well as performing arts space with the stage. Really uh kind of fun, innovative things you're doing at the middle school with the student incentives. Uh, we really like that. Um, we actually have in upcoming summer work some some ways to f uh highlight that a little bit more. And then just bringing the school spirit and community pride into the the building facade is is great as well. So some things at the middle school that we observed uh right now there really is lacking a secure entry vestibule.
Do we need to retach? Do we need to retach groups of kids? What are we going to do? Here's how many are on the next set. We couldn't have done that even last year. They've made updates even during the school year that allowed us to do that. Cindy, if you would change. Lauren's going to go over several parts of the slide individually in just a moment for you, but I want to give you the big picture and then she'll drill down. So, I said to you that before we just had standards. In the upper leftand corner, you will see a sample of the frameworks. And the frameworks take a single standard and they break it down into what's the actual academic vocabulary. What vocabulary are we going to see on the test so that people aren't saying things like you're folding it hot dog and hamburger style and then the kids see vertical and horizontal on the test, right?
I want to do it this." So, there's more as well um that form that team. Yeah. So, part of conscious discipline um of the school family are these structures. So, this is what we these structures here are what we were working with um introducing one at a time slowly this whole school year um to our staff and our students. Um, and we made sure that we um that we were teaching our staff before we were teaching our students because we the year prior we didn't do that. We went in and did it kind of at the convocation and there it was like I don't want to say a flop but it didn't follow through because the the staff wasn't educated in it first. So, we make sure that anything that we're going to teach to our students that we've done one or two um professional developments with our staff first um so that they are prepared and are starting to use some of it in their room.
Oh, does a forward throw over the head and Link has had his three stocks taken. We're in the lead by one stock. So, let's see if Eli So, let's see how long Eli can actually keep that one stock. He'll probably keep it for a very long time. I will say he'll probably keep it for a very long time. So, another thing about Battlefield that wasn't really used as much um that uh that's different from Pokemon Stadium 2 is that Pokemon Stadium 2 has like a staff kind of in the middle, you know, and that and that makes it weird for bouncing off of, you know. Yeah. But, uh Battlefield is more triangular in nature, you know. Okay. Yeah. So, that one went that one went pretty well for us. Uh we've managed to keep one of our stocks. So, we are currently in the lead and we're going to be trying to keep that lead as long as possible and also make it as big as possible.
>> Sarah Bess, do you have a response for that? >> Yes. I think is highly unfair to ask the Pelum school committee how many seats that the Ammer school committee would have for choice out for to receive choice students. That's not anything we have any control over. The same way we have students that choice out or charter out now and we receive choice in students. That's how many seats a new school could possibly have for Pelum students is not something we are able to answer. I will say previously when you know conversations came to the school committee and the school about participating in Chestnut Street Academy or whatever that looked like before it even had a name when Amoris first started talking about it. The feeling in Pelum I I was going to be one of those sixth grade parents when it first started those conversations first started.
And I saw the the uh the hires are really kind of pulled up. >> We're in a pretty good position right now. Um and have like to get one at the middle school. We have an interview that's going to be set up this is set up for this week. So might be able to pull that one in. We are getting late and if and if things hold true to form after spring break is when we'll start to see a decline again. Typically people start finding summer work or things like that. But we'll just see. We have also have a lot of people who really want really good. So, >> cool. Thank you very much, >> Greg. You're up. Don't talk about tonight. >> I show you. >> We'll uh u just quickly, I mean, you can read my report. >> Uh just wanted to say that the scheduling in the new system is going well uh at the high school and Maddie at the middle school started on it today.
Some of this we do have to continue planning as we go, but we also have to wait the 45day waiting period, you know, to ensure all the due process before we really go into the next steps of, you know, can the community buy the building? Can or what's going to happen to the building? Those type of things. So, it's not that we're not addressing it. We're not thinking about it, but we do have kind of our due process, but we do still have to make plans moving forward. And like like I said, one or two kids in the daycare isn't anything that we we can sustain as a school. I don't know if you know a different motion if you want to add the wording. I moved that Wilson daycare ran by USD 1112 just just for that clarification that there may be something else if the community takes it over removes it but as far as the daycare run by the school district you know that's what we're preding the future of >> I think just table next get some more information from >> you that I couldn't hear.
As a matter of fact, we currently have nine electric space heaters downstairs that are in current use just to maintain basic working conditions. Water intrusion commonly occurs throughout the building through foundation cracks that have been repeatedly patched and painted over for decades. In our prisoner processing room, water intrusion has damaged electronic components and flooring and rusted out filing cabinets that had to be removed and discarded. During prolong rainfall, water seeps up through the tile flooring on the east side of the basement where our kitchen and mail locker room are located, further contributing to mold growth and structural deterioration. So clearly there is mold, moisture, and water intrusion within police headquarters. But consider this. Even if we find the magic solution and successfully and permanently remediate those issues, we would still be left with an outdated, inefficient, overcrowded, non-compliant basement that serves as a police headquarters.