001There you go. Okay, we're Yeah, I think it's six o'clock. I think we're ready to go. 6 o'clock and we will begin our board of education meeting with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Um, Nikki, would you like to do that? I pledge algiance 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. And tonight the board members present are uh Dennis Ashworth, Mark Ross, and Jonita Jackson. Missy Hall and Randall Trapwine are with us as per phone. Okay. Do we have any recognitions? Yeah, I just wanted to mention and we posted on our uh social media this week. I want to give a a public thank you to the Marathon Petroleum Company. Um, businesses will
002sometimes receive in lie of tax credits uh from from the state for economic development and that affects uh the monies that the public school systems receive and annually uh for the last for the last eight years uh Marathon has calculated how much money uh that the school district would have had if it weren't for the in lie of tax credits. and they have made a donation to the Wayne County School Board in that amount. So this year's donation was $12,635.78 and we certainly appreciate Marathon Petroleum Company for for donating that money. It's uh it'll be used to uh help with our uh uh afterchool programs for students, STEM programs, things like that. So we certainly appreciate their donation. And that's all I had as far as recognitions go. Okay. We have presentation or measuring success
003by Nikki Stephy, coordinator of assessment and data analysis for school improvement. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. All right, we're going to start on page seven tonight. Flip over there. And this is our spring star data. So, at the bottom of page seven, you can see for our grades 2 through 12th are fall, winter, spring. And then that column on the far right is the growth from fall to spring. um and star reading we had an overall growth for the district of 7%. Um you can see that all of our grades showed growth um with the exception of eighth grade we had a slight decrease from fall to spring. And then for star math we had an overall growth of 5% uh with all of our grades showing increase um with the exception of sixth grade.
004These numbers of overall growth are very similar to years past. That's typically about what we see overall. So, it's consistent with what we've seen in previous years. And if you move on to the next page, page eight, this is our high school data. So, all of our ninth graders um have been taking the PSAT assessment. Um, this is something that you all have approved the purchase of, which is really great because it helps our students prepare for SAT school day, which is what we are held accountable for when our students are in 11th grade. So, PSAT 89, you have two years of data there, uh, this school year and the previous school year. And, um, just keep in mind these are two different groups of kids. Um but in looking at that data, we like
005to see how we perform um in relation to the state. So that percentage, it's in the middle there, percentage meeting that reading and writing benchmark. Um that's the College Board benchmark. You can see the state took a 6% decrease there. Um and we've taken a 3% decrease. So like I said, it's two different groups of kids. Usually they perform similar but what we like to look at is you know how our kids are doing in relation to the state. So we did have a decrease there but it's not as significant as the states decrease. Um math is more positive with our nth grade students. Um and if you look there we went from 17% to 19%. So we had a 2% increase. Uh whereas the state took a 7% decrease. So that's positive. Um going
006on down to PSAT10. Just one question before you go on. I see over on the left hand side the percentage meeting both benchmarks. Yes. Mean meaning they met the math and the reading. Math and the reading. Um last year we were three percentage points below the state, but this year we're five percentage points above the state. Okay. So going on down, we're looking at similar data with our 10th grade students who took the PSAT 10. And once again, uh that percent meeting the reading and writing benchmark in that middle column, um you can see we took a 2% decrease. Um similar to the ninth grade data, the state took a 6% decrease. So once again, we do have a slight decrease, but it wasn't as significant as the state's decrease. And then if you look
007over at the math, we had a 2% increase as well there, whereas the state just had the 1% increase. And that percentage meeting both benchmarks, we increased there by 3%. So I think it's um positive there. And then below that, SAT school day data. This is what we're held accountable with the state department on the balance scorecard. I'll present out on that next fall when that comes out. Um, the scorecard includes your GSA data as well as SAT school day data for 11th grade. And if you look at the reading and writing benchmark here, that percentage meeting, we took a 10% increase, whereas the state just took a 4% increase. So that's very positive. And then even in the math, we had a 5% increase um, where the state had a 2% increase. And then
008over on that far left, we also had a 4% increase of students meeting both benchmarks. So, I think we're trending in the right way here. Um, one thing that we did differently this year is our 11th grade students piloted something called Horizon Assessments, and it went really well. We've had a lot of feedback from administrators and teachers and even students that have said at the high school level they would like to do different testing other than the STAR assessments uh that align more closely to SAT school day. So we found a program we piloted this year with just our 11th graders that went really well. Um so you are probably going to see a PO here in the next month or so for that. So next year what we're looking at doing with our assessment
009plan is at the high school level uh we will not be doing the Renaissance but we will be doing these horizon assessments that mirror the SAT school day. So they have practice assessments for PSAT 8 N and 10 as well as SAT. Um it's timed the same. The students receive the same accommodations they do for SAT school day. um it's formatted in the same way. So, it's just more closely aligned like our state benchmarks are for GSA. So, we had overwhelmingly positive feedback on that and everyone's really excited to move that new direction next year. Um if you go to the next page, page nine, uh this is the percentage of students reading on grade level. And as you can see here, we have several years of trend data. The far right is the current
010school year. And you can see we've had excellent growth from fall to winter to spring across the board there. The reason why you don't see 11th grade spring data is because they were piloting those horizon assessments. So they didn't complete the star assessment this spring. Another very positive piece of data on this is towards the bottom our college going rate. um they have released that data and we have increased we went from 48.2% to 52.1%. Mr. Alexander if I'm wrong but we were one of the few counties to have an increase there. Yeah. And it was one of the highest numbers in the state. And on page 10, um, I pulled the chronic absenteeism event at the end of May and we were right at 30%. Um, which was an increase from April, but was
011still lower than where we ended the end of last school year. And then on the next page, our staff data. And I believe Mr. Alexander shared this with you as well. Um, for staff, professional, and service, we were at 17% chronically absent for May. And then the last update I have is over to page 14 with our walkthrough data. Our walkthroughs were much lower. You can see in May we only had 61 walkthroughs documented in May. But, um, I want to remind you, we had a three-w weekek testing window there. And so when students in grades three through eight are testing, administrators are supposed to be monitoring that. Um so between that and awards and assemblies and the field days and performances, that is why we've had a decrease there, but that's mainly due to
012that 3-week testing window. Um but you can see our percentage of bank ratio for low, medium, and high. It's pretty consistent with what we've seen each month all year. Um, same with our thank ratios and our participation ratios. Any questions? Yeah, there's some there's some positive data there as far as some of the movement that's going on. Still have a lot of work to do, but positive information. So, thank you, Nathan. Thanks, Nikki. Next up, yeah, Bradley Jordan and embedded credit availability 256. So, I had talked to Bradley earlier in the year. What we wanted to do was we wanted to make sure that we had all three of our high schools on the same page um regarding what offerings are out there from the uh from the uh different agencies. I'm sorry, from the
013different educational institutions, mainly Marshall and Mount West. And um so I I asked him to see if he could pull together a document that would help explain to our stakeholders and internally exactly what's available to our students. So when we talk about the college going rate going up to 52%. I think I think a lot of that has to do with the number of college credits that kids are now earning uh during their high school, their four years in high school. I think there's more available now than probably there's ever been. Bradley, would you agree with that? Uh definitely. Yes. Okay. So, I I just wanted Bradley to come this evening and show you the courses that are available to the students. And Randy and Missy, I know you're with us on the phone. I
014had emailed you this document and I know you might not have access to it right now, but you'll be able to look at it later, but Bradley, I'll turn it over to you. Great. Um, so as you know, we have a lot of dual credit options. We have a lot of uh options that are growing through our partnerships with Marshall Herd Academy and also Mount West Jumpstart. And so that led with all their course offerings and a lot of our students doing those classes or taking those classes, it led to some I don't want to say confusion, but some different ways that we were granting some credits at at our different high schools. And it kind of came across through some conversations that we had. We wanted to make sure that we we granted credits
015equally across the uh across the three high schools. um you know there's some different offerings at each of the schools but then also the students are traveling to campuses to take these courses. So we just as these this is kind of a a very much of a working document in this Excel spreadsheet depending on the classes and the courses that they that the um at Marshall University and Mount West offer. Uh but this was it was a really good sto start and this first first uh spreadsheet is with Marshall University's course offerings and that's what is in the lefth hand column. These are all the courses that they offer through their herd academy that our students can can um participate in and as you can see there there's 99 courses um in the right hand
016box there in the right hand column this is what we are granting high school credit for. These are what if they take these courses, this is what is going to show up on their transcript for high school credit. Uh so that it's common between our three high schools and and policy 2510 that kind of dictates our our our credits and different things. And I'll show you a little bit of that here in a second. Kind of leaves it a little bit flexible. you could use this course for this credit or whatever, but this really lines it out for our counselors and our students and our families who are interested in taking these courses. If you if you notice the the blue the highlighted blue areas, and I was looking over it today and I was
017kind of double-checking, but the highlighted blue areas are courses that could be replaced for the high school credits. So, for example, I I I always go to the English um English 101 right here. So, that's one that's very common for our students to take. Also, we offer this on campus at a couple of our high schools and then also they take it uh on Marshall's Herd Academy. But the the blue highlighted part is what they could replace a high school credit for. So they could take English 101, they could replace English 11 or English 12 depending on kind of what is in the order of their PEP plan and different things like that. So I wanted to make sure that we highlighted those areas because those are graduation requirements. Those are classes that they must
018take and they must meet to to graduate high school. So make sure that we highlighted those in all those areas. There's a there's one area here, uh, this course right here, um, early childhood programs. We don't really have a course code that matches that to a to a high school class. So, we kind of leave that blank because there'll have to be some conversation um, with the student with the administrator if they take those courses. And there's not a lot of our students that are taking that particular course. Um there's that schools and society is another one. We just don't have a matching course code plus the um what's the word I'm looking the requirements that they have to have to cover to get that credit. It doesn't match a course code that we have
019for the state of West Virginia. So for those blanks, those those courses are available to those students as college credit, but likely it would be college credit only. likely likely it would be college credit only. We're not saying you can't take it. We just can't grant you high school credit for it. No, but this list is this list is Marshall University's her academy. Um and then this tab is Mount West. This is Mount West is Jumpstart Academy. We have quite a few students from our schools participating in both of these programs. One program or one thing that is personal finance, we've got to be careful with using that course as an off-campus course because right now policy 2510 says the cohort that is graduating in 2028 has to take it on campus on on a
020high school campus. Cannot take it as a dual credit class. I expect that to change. Uh but right now that's that's why that is noted differently. How many total courses are available there? Total courses available there at Mount West currently are 45. One of the this this has been a a a fairly long process in developing this document. It wasn't just laying this down and and copy and pasting. We had to make sure that the course syllabus for each of these college porches matches the requirements that meet uh high school credits. Um and then also Mount West, one of the things Mount West uh part of their they need a document for their accreditation for these high school credits. What are we or these credits that that we're granting high school credit for? Uh needed
021to match so that they can continue with their accreditation on that on that side of things. Any questions on those two or comments or anything to add, Mr. Alexander? On those two? The last one here, this one is embedded credits. Um, these are classes that we offer in in our wing county schools that they can use this course to get. For example, if they can complete the Agra business systems and that 0166 course code, which is the high school course, what we put in and they can that fulfills a third science. It it's a um three sciences are a requirement for graduation. So, they could take earth science and biology in the freshman sophomore year, complete this class, and they've completed their third science. several CTE programs there as you can see that that affects
022in in these courses and these embedded credits. And then under that black line is the two-year participation participation in an athletic team, band or dance, they can get a PE credit. So these this document is really meant for our our counselors to go by. This is really meant for um them to make sure that we're giving the same credits for every student across the district. We have another document here. This is the document that we've developed that is more for our students and parents and families to provide as much information to them as possible. Um and then this also we have a lot of students that are really interested in taking that eth 9th 10th class during the school year. They're offered seven during the school day and they take those extra classes outside of
023the school or on campus. We have a lot of students or several students that are interested in taking these dual credit or college courses during the summertime. So then the discussion was is how are we giving them credit or high school credit for that because we want to encourage this to continue to happen. So how are we rewarding them for doing that? So this kind of doc this document tries to line that out a little bit. We want to encourage those. Why do we want to encourage them? Because they're cheaper. They can they they sometimes they are $25 a credit hour. Sometimes they are free and they can get way far ahead in their in their post-secary coursework uh and and finish in a whole lot less debt. So this is the reason why we
024want to encourage that. So it just kind of gives an introduction. Uh this this part here, this is what are requirements for graduation. This is what we're uh providing dual credit or weighted credit courses. Uh you know, an A is worth five points and it kind of explains that a little bit, but all courses resulting in high school credit must be taken during the regular seven period day. And any course resulting in a high school credit that is taken outside of the regular seven period day must have prior written approval by the princ principal and the superintendent. And this includes all independent courses because we have some students that are taking independent courses. So some other things here in this statement, we just want to make sure that they are aware of this that they
025need permission before they go and do this. And so some other important statements there if they enroll um that that grade will be what is on their transcript. if they are taking this course to try to replace one of those graduating uh classes that are or they're required to graduate and they fail, the F shows up on their report card and there's some other ways that we are on their transcript and there's some other ways that we have to gain that credit back. We have some students that go take these programs, fail these courses that they're required to graduate and they have to go back and make sure that we make sure they meet graduation requirements in other ways. all all fees and and things are on the students responsibility. That's another statement. And then
026um some other things there, but it it's a easy way easy way to get to the herd herd academy course listings, the jump start course listings, and then it also lists some and these these are uh fluid, but most of these courses are offered on our on our high school campuses of one of our three high schools. And then so they here's the student name, their ID, this is the course they request, the high school equivalent credit, and then they have the administrator's signature, counselor signature, and the students signature. All that prior to taking the course and then also part of this document is from policy 2510. It's just an easy place to go find this from state policy. This is what's requirement for graduation. So, it's about an eight-page document, but really the first
027two pages are what are the most important the these hopefully they have questions and that's an easy place for them to find answers. So, we haven't implemented this on a wide scale yet. We do have a few students from Wayne High School that were interested in taking summer courses. So, we asked them to complete this already just to kind of see how this process works. I don't know if that's made it to if those have made it to your own because that just happened at the end of last week. Yeah. Any questions? Just just some guidance documents try guidance documents trying to make it more streamlined and more equally address the issue across the three high schools. We'll send these to your email. You be a little bit easier to see. I didn't want to
028read it word for word for you. I'd be better with a hard coffee. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate your hard work everybody. Yeah, it it it took a little bit of time to get together. And and one thing and I'll add this very quickly. This is not unlike what of a lot of other counties. We involved the state department in in this discussion in several areas and they were saying several counties or most counties across the state uh were having this same discussion because the of the dual enrollment uh expanding programs you don't have to plug that in. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. We'll see you. Thank you. You're free to leave. That's it for presentation. Yes. Anybody have any good news? Well, the uh 20 24 2025 school
029year is complete. Today was today was last day for our faculty and staff and uh we still have some folks that'll be finishing up in the next few weeks and uh it'll be it'll be 2025 2026 before we know it. It'll be August before we know it is okayformational items regular meeting on Tuesday June the 24th 2025 beginning at 6 pm in the board conference room. any construction project? Yeah, we had the bid opening today for the CK uh alumni gym project. That's the renovation of the basement. The bid came in slightly over the budget for the project. And so we're going to be looking at that and considering possibly negotiating that price to get it within budget and then bring it to you for approval at your next board meeting. So, uh, you're you're
030probably see a recommendation at your next board meeting on the, uh, on the bid for that job. We only had one bidder for that job. That was Naval Golf Construction. Okay. Uh, Wayne Elementary School update. Uh, that this is the uh, three room prek classroom edition. Sidewalks have been poured, windows are scheduled to go in this week, drywall has been hung, and painting is starting this week as well. So, we're moving along there. Um, we have the the new HVAC that we put in multiple schools last summer. Uh, we've had issues with the controls uh in regards to humidity in several of those buildings. And so the uh the makers of the units are scheduled to be here Monday uh to work with uh to work with our controllers on uh making sure that those
031units are up to speed. I just wanted to mention that in case you're hearing rumblings about having difficulties with those temperatures have been pretty good almost 100% but the the problem has been the humidity levels and it's got to get correct if we can't have those humidity levels up over the summer or it'll cause all kinds of problems. Um so uh that's scheduled to be next week. are designs for the Buffalo K through8 project. The initial set of designs have been submitted to the uh SBA and the West Virginia Department of Education. Um I'm going to have some uh I'm going to have some and again it's in draft stage, but I'll have uh some of the designs ready for you at the next board meeting so you can start taking a look at those.
032Does that include traffic patterns? Yes, it includes traffic patterns. Um the we also had another bid opening last week which was the Wayne High School roofing project. Unfortunately, that bid came in well over budget and again we only had one bidder on that project. So we're going to take that out for a second bid and try to get some other other biders um attracted to that project and see if we can get some different numbers. That bid came in at over $300,000. Wow. And so it was well above what was expected. And then um another item you'll be seeing movement on this summer, we're moving those uh prek classrooms down to Wayne Elementary School, which also means we have to put in a playground down there. Yeah, that was not part of the construction project
033itself. So that's going to be a separate project. So you'll we'll have to do some purchases this summer for that playground. So I just wanted to give you a heads up to that. And that's all happened. Got a question on the Wayne Elementary. Did you have a chance to check on that custodial room that was brought to my attention of a concern? Yeah. Yeah. And I I talked to the uh I talked to the custodian, the gentleman that had the concern. Okay. And so there's not much we could do about it at this point because the block had already been laid and everything had been put in. Um the uh you know I explained we had to put a bathroom out in the hallway and there's a there's a rule that if you have a
034certain amount of enrollment down a hallway there has to be a bathroom every so often. So, uh, one of those areas that was put in, uh, was