001All right. Now at this time we'll take a moment for um silence and then the pledge and McKenley Spencer our fourth grade [clears throat] student at Edwards will be leading the pledge. So we'll take this time for silence right now. You want to do it here? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate that, Miss Spencer. Okay, >> waste no time this year. >> I'd like to call Chief Academic Officer, Miss Stubs, to present special recognitions. >> Good evening. Last January, the curriculum team applied for the strategic compensation grant. Uh we submitted the grant for five schools based on the following criteria. Retention rate retention rate
002of teachers critical needs geographical area and poverty index. New [clears throat] Heights Middle School met the criteria of the grant as determined by the state department. Uh the district opted for the state collaboration approach. So this means the grant is based on the spring 2024 to 2025 student growth as measured by SC ready. Uh the awards require students to have um assessment results on SC ready for the prior and the current school year. So this is a fourth through 8th grade initiative. Um the teachers that that um meet the criteria are teachers in ELA and math. Uh the state department then uh looked at the the growth of students and the stats uh state department along with the education analytics calculated the growth metrics um and determined those teachers that are going to be awarded
003tonight. Um and so I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Maguire and he's going to um let us know the names of the teachers, their subject, and the amount awarded. Well, good evening, Madame Chair, Dr. Ballinger, members of the board. >> Uh, at [clears throat] this time, it is my distinct pleasure and honor to recognize six of our very own math and ELA teachers at New Heights Middle School who have been recognized for this outstanding growth award for the 2024 25 school year. So, we'll start with our math recipients. So when I call your name, come on up to the podium. Uh beginning with Miss Relle Greyelos. Miss Greyelos teaches 8th grade math at our school and she taught eighth grade math last year as well. And of course that's where her students uh
004tested in um for the spring. Miss Gayello's this year has been awarded $2,870. [applause] Next, we want to recognize Mr. Christian Alejandro. Mr. Alejandro teaches seventh grade mathematics. His students, he also taught seventh grade math last year as well. And that is what the uh results were for was from last spring. Mr. Alejandro has been awarded the amount of $6,480. [applause] And our uh last math recipient is Miss Cinderella Lou. Miss Lou teaches eighth grade math as well as this year she took on a new u topic of geometry and last year she did teach all eighth grade math. So we're very pleased to now to announce tonight that Miss Lou is awarded the amount of 11,480. [applause] We also want to recognize our ELA recipients. One who could not be here tonight, but we
005definitely want to recognize her. Uh she's been on a leave of absence, but she will be returning tomorrow. We're very grateful to find that out. Miss Myra Fischer. Miss Fischer teaches sixth grade ELA and she did teach that as well last year. She has been awarded the amount of $6,480. [applause] I want to recognize Miss Kim Bonasich. Miss Bonasawich teaches 8th grade ELA at New Heights. She also teaches our honors English class as well as this year as well as last year. So, Miss Bonasovich has been awarded the amount of $6,480. [applause] And last, but certainly not least, is Miss Braber Spell. Miss Spell teaches our seventh grade ELA. She's also our spelling bee representative as well as our seventh grade hall leader. And we're very pleased to announce that Miss Spell has been awarded
006$11,48. [applause] Congratulations. [laughter] >> Would all of y'all like to come up with these teachers and have your picture? [laughter] picture. >> Congratulations. [laughter] Come on. Come on. [laughter] Congratulations, [applause] [laughter] folks. Okay. Hopefully that'll come around again at some point. Be nice. There is no public comment tonight. >> Um, and I just like to welcome everyone here since we've done that. And big welcome to these ladies and gentlemen. Um, SRO Lee, you're not Lee. [laughter] Brad, I've [clears throat] known him since he was a little boy. Um, Jacqueline with the link. Thank you. Um, all the principles, staff, teachers, administrators, everyone that's come tonight, we appreciate it. Um, board members, you've been given the minutes for October the 13th prior to the meeting. If there's no objections, there will be approved by consent. Good.
007Okay. Now, we'll turn it over to our chief financial officer, Mr. Casy for our September financial review and presentation of the South Carolina Forestry Commission revenue. Madam Chair, Dr. Ballinger, members of the board. Good evening. >> Prior to this evening, you all received a copy of the financial report for the month of September. Uh you will notice that the format of this report is slightly different than what you've gotten in the past. the cover page and the revenue reports that you got were identical, but I split the re the expenditure report into two uh a labor and a non- labor report. Uh both of those are going to be listed by location. Uh that format's going to give you a clearer picture of kind of where we stand year-to date. Those labor costs are going
008to be more consistent throughout the year, whereas that non- labor stuff is going to be more front-loaded. And since the old report combined those into one one report, it made it impossible to really see if we were really on track in a given department. So that should make it a little clearer. And also reduce the amount of utility reports that you have to sort through. So that you're right now just going to get a one yeartoate report that is just for utilities across the board. And you'll still be able to track that, but it's just they're all grouped into one cost line per location. Uh, and those are just some preliminary changes that I believe made the report a little bit more usable and understandable. However, I do expect that once we start our monthly
009finance meetings, I'll get some suggestions for some additional improvements that we can make in the future. So, are there any questions to the format or the contents of the September report? >> Any questions? >> Okay. >> All right. So, uh, each year in accordance with South Carolina code section 48-23-260, 25% of the revenue generated by the South Carolina Forestry Commission on Sand Hill State Forest is designated to support Chesterfield County School District. Tonight, we have with us the director of San Hill State Forest, Mr. Brian Davis. Uh, he's here this evening to present the 2025 State Forestry Commission funding. [applause] >> [laughter] >> I'll keep it short and sweet. I just I appreciate the uh the board uh school district allowing us to be here tonight. Again, um as Mr. Casky said, this is, you
010know, in lie of a property tax that the state park doesn't pay. We the money comes back to mandated 25% of our receipts come back to the uh school district. And we're just uh glad to be here tonight and thank you for allowing us to come. So, if I could um put my glasses on. This is uh this year's check is $35,82.76. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> I think Mr. Earl always comes for that presentation. All right, Miss Stubs, you want to come back? [laughter] She's going to give us our curriculum report. Good evening, Madame Chair, Dr. Ballinger, members of the board. Um, several items on the curriculum report that I would like to um review with you. Um, first of all, adult education. Um the adult education department observed cyber security awareness month um
011and participants completed the north northstar cyber security module and the IBM skills build cyber security fundamentals class. In addition AI fundamentals workplace literacy program received approval from the SC office of career readiness and the program will be 12 hours and introduce participants to the development of AI. Want to also mention that beginning with this school year, the 2526 school year, first graders who are not demonstrating grade level reading proficiency will be invited to summer reading camp um in accordance with act 114 of 2024. And so this legislation extends uh expands the summer reading camp eligibility to include first graders and enabling us to identify um students earlier um and intervene for any struggling readers. Um there is below in the report the um the scores that I ready will be used to help us determine
012which students will be invited to summer reading camp. Of course, this is part of our goal is that, you know, all of our students are on grade level and reading um at their grade level by by at least grade three. Um Dr. Candace Hoffman along with one of our literacy coaches in the district, Paulie Humeman, um presented at the 25 South Carolina Association of Title One Administrators um and they had a presentation regarding intervention. The title was rising up to success utilizing rise and rise up to drive data informed growth and student enga engagement. Um lots of things going on in the fine arts program. Long middle school has been recognized as the PSE school of excellence and art education. Um, in addition, students from Shiral Intermediate, Long Middle, Shall High School earned awards um,
013in the Sidewalk Chalk Competition during the jazz festival. The Spirit of MCBY earned first place with best music in a class 3A at the Shar Tribe Invitational. The Shar High School Jazz Messengers had the honor of opening the South Carolina Jazz Festival this year. Um, the South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mr. Lance Stockton a 2500 grant >> [clears throat] >> um to for upgrades to the band. Um the Cherall High School marching band competed at the Bands of America uh Bands of America Carolina Regional earning awards for high visual performance, high overall effect and first place [clears throat] in class 1A. Um and that's a remarkable achievement for those students. The Chesville High School Chorus recently performed at the SCMEA Region Choir where Tana Adams was selected as soloist for the concert. Um, finally, the
014state marching band championship held at um November 1st at North Central High School. Um, want to uh point out that Sher High School placed sixth um overall. And so that's the first time in more than 15 years that the band um was in that in that place. Um Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Bradley from the federal programs uh presented at our um induction cohort. Miss Mona Loftton also had a pres presentation on exceptional ed procedures. Um our 11th grade students, junior scholars traveled to USC Lancaster on October 23rd and they were uh able to meet faculty members and participate in Mad City Money. Um, so that is kind of a a hands-on way for kids to understand how a budget works. So they have a career and they have uh debt and they have a salary
015and so they have to navigate all of those expenses um like housing and transportation. And finally, we um completed our last round of high school data meetings. And so schools are really working hard to identify students that are on track and off track for graduation. And so, um, the curriculum and special ed departments are working closely with high school principles to to make sure that all of that is on track with our students. >> Any questions? >> No, I have a couple. Uh, I'm going back to the first grade reading. Mhm. >> Do we know uh now percentage-wise uh based on history how many first graders we got coming in the school system that's struggling uh with their reading level? >> Um so we have different ways to look at that. Um one thing that
016we have um we do we do an I Ready which is a a reading assessment. We do that, you know, in in the fall and it kind of gives us a measure of which students are are needing extra support. We we are doing that again now um as part of the the winter assessment. So that'll give us even more data. Um and then we'll look closely at the spring to see where where our kids fall. Um but you know, it's still it's still early for first grade. Um there's a lot of growing that happens between now and January and February with first graders. Um so so we do have, you know, um students that still need a lot of support, but we also know that this is a this is a time when they really
017start to take off and and gain those reading skills that they need. I guess my question is is that the law came out to say third graders, so we had to be keeping track from first to second to third, >> right? >> Uh and just curious. All right. So, my second question is out of the third graders that took the test this year, have we been able to since the embargo now is is it's been lifted? Uh have we been able to determine our third graders for this year who has not reach that reading level? >> So, so do you mean the the third graders that took it last year, how they're doing this year in the fourth grade? Now I want to know the percentage wise that that's not reading on third grade level.
018Do we know that yet? >> So are you asking for the current third grader sir? >> No last year's third grade third graders. >> Um >> that should I mean as far as the percentage of last year's third graders that didn't meet benchmark. >> Yeah, that's a fourth grader now. >> That are fourth graders now. >> That data should be reflected in the state state testing results. Correct. That's what I'm asking >> because that should show your your uh what you're asking for is the percentage of students that were either proficient or advanced. >> No, correct. >> Asking for the percentage of students that's not on third grade level. That's that's a fourth grade. >> So, >> I know we had summer school for them to kind of catch up. >> Okay. So, you're wanting
019to identify those that we had summer school for, >> right? and if where they are at that are current fourth graders. >> I think what you're referring to is last year what we found out that kids that weren't on a certain level were not going to be promoted I think is the best way to put it. >> They were going to go to summer school. I guess you're wanting to kind of get a follow up on want to know where they are. >> Okay. Okay. I Okay. Um, so we we did look at that closely and and and I don't know all the numbers right off the top of my head to be honest, but I will say that overall the majority of our students that went to summer school were not retained because they
020did meet that benchmark at the end of summer school. Um, and so when I say meet that benchmark, there was a certain score on I Ready. Now it it may not be uh you know it still could be a slightly below third grade but they still made that benchmark to be promoted. Um we did retain a few students but it was not many. Um and I will say that our third grade um intervention the third grade summer reading camp was very successful in promoting those those kids and that they did make that benchmark. Um I can't remember the top the number off the top of my head that we did retain Mr. Sweeney but I can find out. >> Okay. The other last last point or the question whenever they don't reach that benchmark are
021those kids relegated to special ed? Are they moved to special ed? >> No. >> They stay with the regular curriculum. >> Yes. So, so if a child is continuously not making um the benchmarks or struggling, then we put in some type of intervention. Um and so there has to be an intervention in place first. Um and so they we will try different things with that child. And so um the teachers drill down to what it is that student needs. Um you know, what is that skill that they're missing? Um and then then there may be cases where then from there they do they are maybe uh referred for special education. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> All right. Now, we'll hear from our chief of student services, Dr. King,
022about our discipline report. >> Yes, ma'am. Wait. >> All right. So, good evening, Dr. Ballinger, Madam Chair, and members of the board. Um I would like to go over the discipline data for the month of October. Um this data is an overview of discipline trends throughout the district and within our grade levels. So for high school our top five infractions for October were in this order 1st through 5th. Tardies was 18.3% of infractions. Truency 53 I'm sorry 12.6% of our infractions. Uh phones violations was 11.6%. 6% and disrupting class was 5.2%. And ID violations was 4.5%. So totaling 52.2% of incidents reporting in power school. Um, for middle school, uh, first through five, the top five infractions were inappropriate behavior at 25.9%. Truency at 24.3%, disrupting class at 5.8%. Refusal to obey or defiant at
0235.4%. And inappropriate language at 4.5%. So at the elementary level, the top five would be inappropriate behavior at 22.3%. Hitkick push at 20.5%. Bus violations at 13.3%. Truency at 13.3%. And disrupting class at 6%. Our district-wide top five infractions for the month of October were at number one, truency at 16.8%. Inappropriate behavior at 14.1%, tardies at 8.8%, phone violations at 6.2%. And disrupting class at 5.6% which totals 51.5% of incidents reported in Power School districtwide. So with all that being said, I'm going sum it up for you. So what that means is the top five behaviors consistently account for nearly half of all incidents indicated repeated patterns across the district. That's within the first three months school also attendance issues are rising. Um truent incidents increased dramatically in October at 16.8% 8% highlighting the need
024for targeted attendance interventions. So we do have some behavioral shifts in the data as well. So inappropriate behavior remains a top concern but it decreased slightly in October. Um phone violations has declined or have declined suggesting some improvement in device management. Also, hitkick puts dropped off of the top five in October, possibly reflecting effective interventions. So, classroom management is still, you know, we still are working through classroom management processes. Disrupting class and tarter remain recurring concerns though their rankings fluctuates from month to month. But as you can see with the district report for October, the discipline has decreased. So, just wanted to make you aware of that. Any questions? >> Yes, sir. >> No sir. Well, we send letters home after three consecutive absences. That's when you kind of they come on the radar. Each
025school has truency um intervention teams. And so the reason why the numbers you see increase is because we have now been more effective in as far as reporting or how the information is gathered because the attendance clerks we have went to monthly meetings with each one to make sure we identifying these kids and also we have if it's not face to face they're also via Zoom. So we have four quarterly meetings face to face and in the other months we have Zoom meetings with the attendance clerks of identifying these kids. And the goal is to make sure that that the parents understand the importance of truency and why it's important for kids to be in school. But once you get to three to five days, letters are going home to parents. Once it gets past
02610, that's when you that's when it goes to another level. >> It could I'm also saying >> Absolutely. >> [clears throat] >> Yes sir. And and the thing that with the challenges some of the challenge that we have especially at the elementary level and the middle school level that's mainly on the parents and not so much the kids because of course the parents are responsible for getting them to school back and forth. But a lot of the schools now have been focusing on celebrating attendance uh which is kind of gauging that that peing the interest of kids making sure that they come to school. So we're rewarding them with attendance parties and different things like that. We're trying to be creative as far as cuz the kids are kids will help hold the parents accountable
027for getting them to school as well. So kind of increasing that that is helping with the actual attendance piece. But I do understand whenever they're missing instruction of course that puts them further behind. So the goal is to to get them in school and to hold them accountable for being there. >> And Dr. King, just off of policy, I think our if I remember correctly, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but our policy allows five excused parent or parent excuses. >> Um, after that, then it is an unexcused absence. >> That is correct. You get up to five for semester classes and 10 for year-long classes. >> Correct. After that, if we require a doctor's note, otherwise it would be an excused unexcused absence. that would be marked down. Now, I don't think
028the state really matters as far as when it comes to chronically being chronically absent, whether it's an excused or unexcused, an absence is an absence. >> That's correct. >> When it comes to seat time, >> at the high school level, Dr. Chapman, you know, specifically to what you're talking about, if they're missing all that at the high school level, they could be also missing that seat time, which could hamper that student from getting their high school diploma or meeting the criteria to to receive credit for that for that class that they may need for graduation. So, there's some other things that we have to do to play into that to make sure that that we're getting those students involved um that when we do offer opportunities for them to come in and uh make up
029seat time or something of that nature to try to work work through that. But again, it comes through it. It starts with the intervention. What we can do to help in, you know, making it to where one, we we need to make school where it's students want to come to school to learn. And and so, you know, that starts in the classroom, that starts in the building, you know. So, so we've got to create that environment there where they want to come in. And um but then just being making sure that we are getting contact and staying in contact with those parents and working through them through through some things. And we do understand sometimes there are some extenduating circumstances that we do have to to be cognizant of. But but anyway, so just wanted
030to make sure because I know we get those questions a lot of times um concerning uh what is an unexcused or excused absence and I know our policy outlines that. >> Yes, sir. Absolutely. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? Any other questions? >> Thank you, Dr. King. We'll see you shortly. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. At this time, we'll turn it over to Dr. Ballinger for his superintendent report. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, I would also like to welcome everybody in attendance tonight and everybody joining us online. Uh, thank you for your interest in Chesterfield County Schools. I would first like to thank the entire Chesterfield County community for supporting the school system with the passage of our bond referendum. Uh, this support shows your dedication to improving our school system
031as we move forward with projects. Uh, there will be a web page that's located on the district's website for you to follow up um on the progress. Again, thank you for supporting the students and staff of Chesterfield County Schools. I also do want to say thank you to um you know, this was a team effort. Um I do want to say uh give special notice to uh Miss Golage for putting together a lot of our flyers and and putting together a lot of our information that was sent out and getting them um Thank you, sir. getting those sent to parents on a weekly basis and getting those posted and and just working through all that. Um again to Dr. Hail for there there were some meetings that I couldn't attend that that she would attend
032or if we had conflicts that she would go to one and I would go to another and you know and then I know there was uh some meetings that well we were here at a board meeting and I know u Mr. Evans was at at another meeting over in Shiral that night and he he spoke on behalf that um of the school system. So it was it was a team effort. So everybody was out was out um making sure that the public was educated on the on this subject matter. So I just want to say thank you to everybody and thank you to the thanks to the community for supporting us and for supporting our children and our teachers. Uh also I do want to recognize that tomorrow um our community will uh comes together
033to honor and thank the brave men and women who served in the United States uh armed forces. Uh, you know, I do want to say your courage and sacrifice and dedication to protect the freedoms uh we enjoy every day. I want to say thank you for that. To all veterans, especially those who are family members, friends, and loved ones of our students and staff, we extend our deepest gratitude. Your service inspires us to lead with integrity, show kindness, and value the importance of giving back to others. And so tomorrow on Veterans Day, we'll pause to remember the peace and opportunities we have we have are made possible by your commitment and sacrifice. Thank you for your service and for being heroes in our community and in our hearts. I also wanted to make note that
034tomorrow will be um interim reports will go out. uh also that schools will be closed November 24th through the 28th for fall break. And then the next thing I want to do is talk about our state report card uh that was released earlier this month. And so I think we can pull that up and just kind of talk about that. So there's going to be kind of two stories here when you look at the state report card. uh one is showing that our teachers, our administrators, our students, they're doing what they're doing. They're they're doing what it needs to be done. And so you're going to see that we're making some growth. But then also on some other slides, you're going to see that we're still even though we've made some growth, we're still behind
035the state average on some things. But I think, you know, the the moral of the story is that we're we're moving forward. We're moving in a positive direction. And you see a lot of positive growth as witnessed tonight with the six teachers that were down here. that's just at one school. Um, and and that's not to mention all the other teachers that that have had a lot of growth throughout our county. And we do want to recognize that it's the work of a lot of teachers. Um, and I want to say thank you for the dedication to that. And so, you kind of will see those two stories. One that still shows us we're a little lagging behind, but the other that shows we're moving in the right direction. And so when we look at
036our elementary schools, you can see we have one one school that's excellent, one school that's good. Uh so that's uh Ruby Elementary School is excellent. Uh Plane View Elementary School is good. Then we have uh Jefferson, Edwards, Mby, and Petersburg. They are average. We do have one below average, and that is a Shar Intermediate School. And you can see the green arrows there. That means that they even those schools that they they're moving in a positive direction there. So they they saw some growth at those schools. When you look at the middle schools, all four middle schools are average. And as we recognize tonight, new new heights went from unsatisfactory just last year to average. So they made they jumped two levels. And so that just is, you know, go bolds well for what our
037teachers are doing in that building um and working with our students on a daily basis. And so to have all four of our schools um the average that is that is moving in the right direction and you can see that those arrows are still moving up. So that means we actually saw growth at MACB um and and Shaw uh sorry Chesterfield Ruby as well at the high schools uh again we see that we have MAC High Shaw and Chesterfield. Uh those are all um average. I also do want to make note that Cherall moved from uh moved up a level from and I'm gonna forget the uh category there. You may have to help me, Miss Dubs. It's >> huh. >> Below average. Thank you. So, they moved from below average to average. And so,
038they made they made that jump. And so, that we're seeing that positive movement. And so I I again we're moving in the right direction when it comes to what our scores um and what's happening in our in our schools with our students and in our classrooms. So you're going to kind of see two pieces of data here. This first sheet when you look at these points as let me back up a slide. Do you see the points where it says average of 51 to 59? So these [clears throat] slides, some of these slides are are going to kind of show you the points that the schools gained. So this adds up to their total that gets them to that 56 for MAC or that 55 for Chiron. Um and then I'll show you some other
039slides that shows percentages as far as when it comes to state averages. So here when you look at academic achievement at our elementary schools you can see that just almost in at every school we saw that upward movement as far as points gained from one year to the next. Some are gaining minimal points some made some huge gains with some some points that they gained in that category. Uh now when you look at the academic achievement from the state level uh you can see that as far as with the district that we had 47.7% pass rate uh compared to 60% at the uh state level for the ELA. And then in math you can see that we have a um pass rate of 25.4% and and then 44.5% at the at the state average. end
040of course assessments with English two and algebra 1. You can see as a district uh 58% to the state average and then algebra um algebra is at 30.9 to the 51.6%. Um so it shows even though we're moving in the positive direction we still have some work to do and and and you know our staff know that our fac you know and we're all doing the work to move forward and so as we move forward with this we are going to be adjusting some things doing but that's that's later on down the road. Um again when we look at preparing for success uh you can see the upward movement. Now there's no data for 24 because they didn't do an assessment that year. That was a a rewrite for the curriculum. So it was [clears
041throat and snorts] not assessed that year for elementary school. So therefore there is no data. And again when you look at preparing for success you can see at the district level compared to the state level. and just wanted to to kind of still show you that yes, we we do have some growth there and we're going to get there because I see the dedication in our faculty and I see the dedication from our administrators and so um we're all moving in the same direction and looking at our um ML progress again the dashes means that's basically too few to report because it may be that there's only one or two students and so they don't report that because then those students could become identified to the general public based upon how they score. So they
042only score with a certain number of students. And you can see there at that bottom at New Heights Middle School, we did see some growth in in our multilingual. And then this is our state data uh comparing us to the rest of the state uh for ML progress. When you look at student progress, again, this is um you can again see that we're moving in that right direction. And we like to see those arrows moving up. Uh that means we're gaining more points to add to our total at the end. And now here we have quite a few bars as far as bar graphs that look at different data and and reporting student progress. Uh so you can see here we are actually overall percentage of pro progress points earned we were actually above the
043state average in this in this section. Also when it comes to our all students we were above the state average. Our lowest performing 20% of students we were above the state average. That means we're moving our lowest 20% students ahead of what the state average is. So that means that that shows you that the growth there for us specifically in that area. So there are some positives there when you look at how we're moving our lowest performing 20% compared to the rest of the state. >> Dr. Chapman's got a question. Sorry. So, I'm going to have to refer to probably some experts sitting out there in the in in the public to kind of answer some specific questions as as far as that is concerned. Do I have a volunteer back there? Miss does Miss
044Brew? Um because I you know I'm still and I'll be honest with you, I'm still learning what all goes into this. This is kind of just my first dive into accountability in South Carolina. And of course, anytime you you you get exposed to any accountability system, it takes usually a year or two to fully understand it. Um, and because it's always a moving target. So, >> so there's something called an added value target. And so we're looking at at how that individual that growth that they make from year to year. So that's part of it. It's just it's just basically that student growth, but it's but you can see there there's the added value target. And so again, it's just broken down into how that student performs from from one year to the next. And
045so is that when one that follows them maybe from first grade or well third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, you see that growth and they add that over time. Is that what you're Okay. So, school climate um also you can see that when it comes to our school climate, we're we are getting positive reports um at at a lot of our schools and and we're gaining more points when it comes to the school climate. uh when you look at our state data and I just pulled some from the teacher perspective, some from the student perspective and when looking at that uh overall our district we're right about state average when it comes to how many points we got compared to others. Um but then also when it looks at teacher perceptions of instructional focus, slight
046dip there, but teacher perceptions of working conditions, you can see a slight increase compared to the state as far as when it comes to the points um that were awarded for that section. Um I didn't I see an error there. I didn't add a heading for that one. Uh but then student student perceptions of social physical environment. Uh you can see that that we get we earn more points compared to the state average there. and student perceptions of safety. Again, that's relatively the same. So, academic achievement, this breaks down our high schools. Um, you know, it it is a little bit different story here for our high schools than it was for our elementary and middle. And some of the slides that I showed earlier also address this. So, that academic achievement when I showed
047the state level slide that in that was all districts. So that included the high schools. That was the probably I think the third or fourth slide um when I got into the the presentation. So I did not duplicate those slides. Uh but you can see that Shall High School with academic achievement made good growth there. Um as far as the points earned. Then when you look at preparing for success at our high schools again you can see that Central and Shall saw saw growth from the previous year. >> Talked about back up to high school again. One more. Back up one moment. What could cause that big drop at Central High School? >> So there there could be quite a few things that that have caused some drops and I would have to probably rely
048upon somebody kind of out in the the gallery here to again help support that. Uh some of the things that I'm hearing is one um we have lost some quality staff over there. Um I also hear that we and it's not that the people we brought in are not quality. Um but it's also that we are also short staffed in some areas when it comes to some of our classes over there. Uh anything else that I may be missing? Uh Miss Stubs that >> I think that's the main reason is the lack of teachers in those areas. we've had to rely on other other ways like elevator or something. >> Yeah. And and some of our classes right now I think are also um yeah through those elevate programs. So that's not always a teacher
049in front of them every single day. Um that is more of a remote class and so you you have you know that I don't feel you get what is needed out of it. So that has put a that has hampered us in some of those areas. question. populations. that >> um so when it comes to I again I I don't know as far as last year how how much we have seen in population growth at at central. Now, I will tell you that what we are starting to look at are classing uh our class size numbers, our staffing ratios um to see how we can equalize those throughout the district and to make sure that we're we are able to to recruit people to come into the area. Um and and so I don't know
050if it's I I I cannot answer the as far as other than what we're seeing right now and coming up with solutions. Uh, one of the solutions that we're looking at, um, haven't talked to anybody outside of probably Miss Stubs and maybe a few other people on this, but uh, instead of having one thing that we can do as a district, instead of having, uh, semester long algebra classes, we move those to year-long algebra classes. Uh, that way we are we're able to to get the time in that it takes. A lot of times sometimes you may need remediation to put to go forth with that to make sure that we're giving our students the best opportunity to be successful. Um and and and again when are we have to look at we have to
051be strategic also when are students taking that class? When are they testing? Um you know that can play a lot into how successful they are on that assessment. So there's a lot of different things that play into that when it comes to uh student success on on reports. It's it and and we are addressing those right now and we do have a plan. Uh I do know that according to the state both Shaw Intermediate and um Central High School have to do a state remediation plan which will be brought before the board uh next month because we have to have it to the state by December 26th or December 30th. So at the end of the month we have to have that to the state. Um, and there are some things that we have to
052do uh from our side and so we will be having more conversation about that plan and what we plan to do moving forward to help address some of those things. >> The Elevate program is used three. So, we do need to recruit more people coming in. Um, and those are some things that we that I see that we need as a district are, you know, there is a need for instructional coaches within our district. Um, yes, we have literacy coaches. We may have math coaches that the state is providing at two of our schools, but we don't have instructional coaches, people that are going in that are team teaching with the person, to help them with classroom management, to help them with delivery of instruction, to help them with engagement of students. Um, so so
053there is some other needs that we that we can do to help support our teachers um in the classroom as well and that can help draw some others in. But we do need to continue to recruit our local to help us move forward. Uh ML progress, you can see at both MACBY and Central High School, we did make progress um with our ML students there. Graduation rate as far as percentages or points, sorry, points, you can see that Central and Shir did increase their points uh from one year to the next. Now this is a state um comparison and you can see that overall as a district our graduation rate as a district is 77.6 compared to the state 85.4. I know through the process of of interviewing for this position. That was one of
054the board's um areas of concern is to make sure that we get our graduation rate up. Um and so that is something that that we are looking at and and and addressing. College and career ready. You can see again that central and shall both um increased as far as when it comes to our points that they receive for college and career ready. Looking at the state trends um you can see that we are on average for students that are college or career ready. Now when you look at students that are college and career ready uh we're at 19.7% to the states 31.2. When you look at students graduation who are college ready, we're at 20.4 and then at 33%. But when you look at students that are in the cohort that are career ready, we
055actually beat the state average at 74.7% to the 73.3% for the state. So, you know, we do have some areas to work on on the college side. and and of course there's still a lot of work that we need to do on our career side to to enhance other programs to to make sure that our students are career ready as well. Again, high school success, uh we didn't see much movement there, actually decline in on all of those. Uh climate report card, we did see an increase as far as points that uh Chesterfield High School received uh towards their overall rating there. And then just an overall CCSD overall scores. When you look at it, we had one excellent, one good. Um, then you see all those in the middle. And then we have a
056CIS that is below average and central that is unsatisfactory. But you also see those green arrows with with positive movement going up. Again, as I mentioned earlier, uh CIS and Central, we will be coming back to you guys next month um to kind of discuss what our plan is to move forward with both of those schools. So, uh that is my report for the night and we'll turn it back over to you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you. All right. With tonight, we'd like to welcome Dr. B, who is our new uh human resource director. She will give us our personnel exhibits. >> Yes, madame chair, members of the board, and superintendent Dr. Ballinger. Prior to this evening, you receive a receive personal exhibits for review. I recommend for your approval exhibits A through G. I
057need a motion to second. >> All those in favor? Thank you, Dr. All right, Dr. King, you coming back? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Policy updates and revisions. >> Yes, ma'am. So, board members, you have already been given a copy of policy GCD. At this time, I would like to recommend it be presented for second reading and approval. >> Need a motion. >> So, move. >> Second. Okay. All those in favor? >> Thank you. All right. And lastly, I would like to present the following policy revision for the recommended first reading policy KBE, parent organizations. This update allows the district to obtain a namebased criminal record history check for background investigation bureau on all financial officers upon receipt of a parent organization registration. >> Need a motion. >> All those in favor? [clears throat] >> Okay.
058>> Thank you. >> That's all. Does it? [laughter] >> You usually have an arm loop. >> All right. Now, Miss Stubs, welcome back. You're going to present our overnight student travel. >> Yes. So, um moving [clears throat] forward, just for everybody to know, we'll we'll do this a little differently next year. Um we'll have our uh fall field trips presented to you in September and then the spring in February. So, we'll just do that twice a year. Um but for right now um we would like for to have your approval for a field trip for students from central Cherall and Chall to attend the National Agricultural Communications Competition in Nashville, Tennessee from December 10th through December 12th. >> Need a motion. >> So move. >> All those in favor? >> All right. Um, we would
059like your approval to for a field trip for students from Chesville High School to attend Greenhand Camp in Cherry Grove Beach from February 19th to February 21st to develop leadership skills. >> Miss Stubs, just keep reading. >> Okay, I'm sorry. >> I will take one. >> Okay. uh review and approve a field trip for students from Long Middle School, New Heights Middle School, Chesville, Ruby Middle, Matt B. Middle to attend the Junior Beta Club Convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from January 20th through the January 23rd of 2026. And finally, to review and approve a field trip for seventh and eighth grade students for Mattby High School to attend the Garden City Chapel and Retreat in Garden City, South Carolina from November 11th through November 16th. Um, and that is the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
060group. >> That's all. Okay. >> All right. I need a motion to accept this overnight travel. >> All those in favor? >> I hope they have a good time. >> Yes. >> [clears throat] >> think it's a necessary >> for this part of the >> so >> right right so um what they have to do what they already do is they present um for any of these trips that are overnight they have to do a detailed um you know itinerary of what's going on the the the chaperones where the students are going and that is submitted to the to the proper person whether it be Miss Saul, Dr. King, Miss Miss Ellerby. Um and then it is that is approved initially but then they have to turn in a list of students and all of
061the the documentation. Um and then from there then I take those field trips and kind of narrow it down so that you just know kind of the the basics. So, um, that's that's kind of what we're doing so that you know where the students will be going, where they're going, you know, the the number of students approximately or which schools are impacted by the field trip. >> My thought I want you guys to operate, >> but I want to be safe. >> Yes. things more. >> I don't know if it's and sorry for the interruption, Miss I. I don't I don't know if it's um extra work. I think it's necessary work uh because we have to make sure that they've done their due diligence to ensure that we have the correct amount of chaperoons
062that you know they've taking uh into consideration where they're staying, how they're going to get there. um instead of just trying to say we want to go do this and then you know it all falls apart because we want to make sure that when when we do send our students out there that's when we we have more liability on us as a school system um because they're not coming back to home uh that night. So we need to do our due diligence to make sure. So I don't I don't know if our process is you know labor intensive. It may be at that but it is a necessary labor that we should do to ensure the safety of our students. >> And again >> you tell me about all those steps [clears throat] making sure
063[cough] not and and you know for our mo most of our schools go on day trips so they don't have to go through this process. Um but for the overnight trips it it is um you know there there is a lot of lot involved um you know with knowing where the students are going to be, who the chaperones are and all of that. So, so there is a lot of upfront work, but um but I think it's worth it um you know to have that those safety protocols in place. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, M. >> All right. Now, I call our chief federal programs director, Dr. Hoffman, to present the district parent involvement plan. >> All right. Madame Chair, Dr. Ballinger, members of the board. Um, each district and school that receive
064title one part A funds or services must develop jointly with, agree upon, and distribute to the parents of participating children written parent and family engagement policies that contain information that is required by the elementary and secondary education act. This plan is to be approved annually by the local school board. Tonight, I have given you a copy of our parent involvement policy for your approval. All right, I need a motion for approval. >> Second that motion. >> All those in favor? >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> All right, it's my turn. Um board members, we have two new commi committees, finance and building um or facilities. And I'm just going to start by assigning two to the to finance um that uh Mr. Sweeney has asked to be on finance and Eric and then for facilities
065uh Miss Blackwell Scott Sims and I'll be on there too. So within a few months, if you find that you can't or if anyone else, as long as we keep it not as a quorum on the committee, if someone else wants to be on something else, let us know or we may switch up in six six to eight months and let you have a turn. Any questions? Good. All right. Okay. December the 6th through the 7th, the SCASBA Legislative Advocacy Conference in Charleston. Um, you know who's going. Uh, December 8th, we're having a board meeting at Palmeta Learning Center, which is at 5:30. That's our regular board meeting. December 15th, we are having the superintendent and the school board retreat at the district office at 5:30. And then February the 19th through the 22nd is
066SCASBA annual convention at Myrtle Beach. Registration is open right now if any of you all want to go. Room blocks will be opening soon. So let Becky know about that one. Anything else? I will report that I got a report here that there is some snow falling in Peland and Jefferson. >> Is that right? >> Um I doubt there'll be much, but anyway. Um if that's it, I need a motion. All right, we have a motion to adjourn. >> All right, everybody. We are now adjourned. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate your attendance.