001to reach my goals. Also, my mentor has helped me learn my self-worth, how to navigate relationships in a healthy way, and how to have fun and relax even when things get hard. There were many memorable moments that stood out over the last two years. Although, my favorite was when we played games and did arts and crafts together. Every week I look forward to seeing her because it's like hanging out with a very close and trusted friend. She has helped me become a better version of myself and I see that more and more every time I meet with her. Being in this program has impacted my life in so many ways, more than I can put into words. I know that I will carry all that I have learned and all that I've experienced even after
002high school. I have been impacted personally by my mentor's time and sacrifice each week. Is life hard? Sure. Do you have to do it alone? No. The moral of the story is break out of your shell, take chances, and don't be afraid to try new things. There are many people who care and will willingly give their time for the sake of helping others. Mentors Care is a memory forever embedded into my soul, and I will never and it will never leave my heart. If you're feeling lost or as though you need guidance, Mentor's Care could be the place for you to create memories, too. For anybody who got recognition, we would love for you to stay, but we understand if you don't want to stay, but you're welcome to stay, but don't feel bad for
003leaving. But except for you, D. >> Thank you. >> Bye, CJ. I know. I was like, "Okay, we're going." It's cute. We'll go to item five. Rosie, did we have anybody sign up? Okay, we'll go to item number six, presentation of campus reports. >> Okay. The Yes, the ladies have allowed me to go first because it's game day. So, I'm going to try to get there as fast as I can. Um, this is a new format, so I'm going to try to go through it and keep up here. Uh, we're going to start off with academic performance snapshot. And what I've done is I've given you um I'm giving you data over the first semester. So if you look at it, we had 660 students. 66 of them failed one class, which is 10%. 35
004of them failed two or more, which is about 5.3. 20 of them failed three or more classes, and that's 3%. 121 of them failed one or more class, which overall comes out to 18.3%. out of those that failed three or more classes, they get to meet with me on an individual basis and uh we go over what they have in each one of those classes. we call mom or dad and then we come up with some kind of academic plan and then every three weeks they get to come in and and meet with me because when you have three or more u there's a lot of indicators there and it's time not only for their counselors but I need to know what's going on I guess on a personal level when I see them in
005the cafeteria when I see them at games you know gives me a chance to to check in with them but we just finished or I just finished with those So, you know, we have some some plans there in place. Um, I could talk all day about this kind of data. You know, when you look at patterns for kids, teachers, grades, but I'm going to leave it at that for now because it can get deep. >> Can I ask a quick question? >> So, we have 66 that failed one class, 35 failed two, 20 failed three, and 121 failed one or more classes. >> That's all three. >> Thanks. >> So, Okay. So, on the intervention and supports, we've made a big push this year for our paras and our sped, which like Miss Workman was
006here to stay in those classes and know who those kids are that need that additional support. Uh also we have by teacher we have individual data trackers that uh the teacher tracks where each kid is on each subject and um from there that tells the teacher the uh differentiated grouping you know so to go back to the littles in primary when you have bluebirds black birds you know you have teacher tables and you have different kind of grouping there. So, we also have a bulldog intervention where we've intentionally put these kids with some of our best teachers. Uh, if you have a kiddo failing math, he needs to be in that intervention plan with a math teacher, not with a reading teacher. So, the counselors have kind of worked that out as well. So, there's
007been a little movement since we've been past this, but uh we're still working with that intervention plan. the attendance report. Our first semester is uh ADA was 94.2. No, we didn't catch Miss Buck, but we're trying. The second semester this far, we're at 97.6. So, what's the difference? The difference is the attendance plans have started to kick in with the kiddos and we meet with them, then we meet with the parents, and then we've taken some folks to court. So, it all starts to come in to play. Uh, a lot of the mentors also are taking these kid on oneonone and trying to figure out why they're not at school. Now, in visiting with these kids, what we find out for the majority of these kids that uh have attendance problems, it's because they don't
008have a parent at home in the morning. They're at work or coming to work. They're changing shifts. So what's happened is they have an older sibling who is responsible for getting them there. Well, sometimes that works out and sometimes it doesn't. And then sometimes the older sibling with their sibling show up at 9 10:00 u because they can't get them going. So you know you try different different things there as well. And then in order to make up their attendance we have Saturday school. So that's a credit recovery kind of thing. For the enrollment this year, we started off with 621 students. We are at 677. So we've overall we've gained about 74 students. We've had 18 withdraw, but out of those 18 withdraw, some of them come back. Now the reason for withdrawals, some
009of them move and some of them are checked out to either a home school or a online class. We used to see a trend in that and I think that's going to continue but I don't think we have as many that we used to have there. And if you notice down at the bottom I put Middleian and I talked to Mr. Gaywood today about that. Uh all of a sudden we've had a a group I think this past week we had five or six students from Middleian and one of them a different one showed up today and I asked where are you from Miss Middleian? So I'm trying to figure what's causing or why they're they're they're moving over. Uh I think I have an idea but I need to visit with those students as
010well. On the next page you have the discipline and safety report. We had for the first semester 41 OSS. We had 18 DAP. We had seven vapes and uh where there were nicotine and nine THC. And then uh for that first semester we had three fights and um two of those were best friends got to playing around and someone got mad and you know how that goes. But for that third fight, those two girls just didn't like each other. That was a true a true fight there. So, uh some of the preventive action for discipline and safety, we uh have adopted a bathroom duty during classing period, passing period. Each or a teacher sits there on the outside of the bathroom and monitors, you know, how many is going in, how many's coming out. You
011can't have 20 kids in there at one time. Uh we've also have before and after school and then you have the ricotta sensor. So we have a tracker and every time that tracker goes off um I think my I think my three APS um it's like a bird hunting dog. Soon as that thing goes off they all take off running. I think okay the tracker went off but we have a tracker and we can tell you pretty much which tracker goes off at which time in the building. So that was a different kind of a a pattern there for me as well. And then we have the electronic pass system where if a child's out of class, you can see when they initiated the electronic pass and if he came out of B Hall and
012why is he a hall. So that kind of helps you with that traffic as well. Um our highlights and our positive outcomes. you met our teachers of the month and uh what I'm going to say about that is Miss Pratt um some of us in the crowd thought she was a student talking to me but she's a secondyear teacher and it goes back to uh and Dr. Ve and I have had this conversation you know when you're in PLC's and you look at it you know people say well you know what's a veteran teacher doing it's not always the veteran teacher that's the best teacher or carries the load she is truly one of those uh and understands data and how to put things together. So those are the kind of people that uh we
013are trying to attract and Mr. Martinez has visited with us about recruitment and retention. So I just wanted to mention that. Okay. Basketball uh Arana Cross reached a milestone. She reached a thousand rebounds. So that's pretty big in basketball when you do when you get to rebound. And we have another little girl. If she scores two points, uh, she's going to break another record tonight. And, um, that's Tyler. With two points, she will have scored a thousand points in her high school career. So, nobody wants to talk about it until after the game, but we're hoping she pulls it off. And you can see pictures there for senior night. uh he has quite a few seniors there, but uh they've been a real good group for him this year. And on the last page, of
014course, uh FFA is strong as always and they're making their shows uh as law as well as the Amech. Um Jim, Bob, and there are making the circuits and they're doing their welding projects. The last picture we had our CTE PEK expo where our eighth grade students came to us and we explained the different to them. Um, a lot of questions, a lot of uh good conversation there as they come into our building for next year. Our upcoming events, we start tailpass tomorrow. We have the daddy daughter spring dance on the 26. We have Taffy State competition. Got our annual Venus softball tournament. And we have our mentors care bingo coming up. ASVAB on March the 3 and SAT school day on March the 10th. So this is the busy time for us, but makes
015things go by quick. Any questions? >> I have a question. So the Meloian that's coming here that's not withdrawals going there. >> No, they're coming here. >> Okay. Thanks. >> All right. Um so reports look similar and uh so we started with academic performance and you can see I separated by grade and it's about first semester. So, we had 11% of eighth graders failed a core class. Um 13.6 seventh graders, but that was 7% core class, 5% electives. And then, um with sixth grade, it was 7.7% 5% of their cores and then 2% were electives. And then I broke sub populations down also. Um the numbers aren't percentages, that's actual numbers. So um but I can let you guys look at that. Um not unlike Mr. Kamacho, we meet with the kids um that failed
016a class for the semester, write a plan like what are we going to do differently? Um talk about that and then um we also meet with teachers who have large failure percentages um sometimes about what they need to do different also um because so that's kind of a two-way street there. intervention that we have done some of the same stuff we've talked about. We have we asked um could we start pulling kids in on Friday and doing some math tutoring on Friday because math is where we're still seeing our biggest um issues. And so had our first Friday last Friday, not the greatest turnout, I'll be honest. We had a lot of parents call um and say, "Hey, is there transportation?" I said, "We're working on it. We didn't have it in place for last
017Friday, but we will, but because we work this Friday, so it'll be the next Friday before we have tutoring again, we will have transportation in place then. Um, and I think that'll make a huge difference in in the number of kids we get during that because like I said, we got within five minutes of me sending the message to those kids parents, I started getting phone calls. Um, so I think with the adding the transportation, that's going to make a big difference. Um, and we are focusing right now with seventh grade math because that's where our scores have shown they need the most support. Um, and so I have four math teachers that come and we do some small groupoup intervention with them. Um, a little bit of whole group stuff because they all need
018some of it and then then we break break it down. Um, so that's what we're doing. We have done a lot of changing Dr. Kamacho talked about that too. um in our intervention during the day and trying to look at data and and meet kids needs. And so we have rearranged a lot of our groups. Um some of my teachers that were doing eighth grade math are now doing seventh grade math. Um some of my sped teachers have very specific groups of kids that were lagging behind not just in in their intervention but in their classes. And so we have done some rearranging with all of that um and and trying to get that all lined up. You guys had asked me last time about afterchool tutoring and where we seeing any impact of that.
019We just finished our benchmarks and so the next time I'll put that on here because we'll be able to pull that list of kids that are staying and and did we see growth with those kiddos. Um so we were we just finished benchmarks on last Thursday. uh attendance, Mr. Kamacho's right, they did not catch me. We're at 95.8 for first semester and then the fourth nine weeks at that when I put it on here, we were at 94.6 chronic absenteeism. So those kids that are are missing, I think it's four or more days, we have 23.75% of our kids that meet that. So we have done for first semester 124 student attendy attendance plans um in place. So we meet with the kids, we meet as a committee, we talk to parents, they start making
020up days. Um we do Saturday school. I had 25 kids at Saturday school last week. Um and so it's also a great time to do some math tutoring since they're there anyway. Um, so we we try to use the time wisely, but uh we we have taken some kiddos to court. When I did this, we had two that were fix about to to go. Um, we had some more absences last week that we'll put some kids over the numbers and so we'll have some more that are going to court. Um, but that's that's a lot of attendance plans for middle school. 124 is is more than we normally do. All right. um doing the same things for attendance like doing the monthly challenges the highest percentage we do a 30 minute party um sometimes snow
021cones sometime it's what whatever is seasonal we did hot chocolate and fake snowballs last time we had a snowball fight in the gym uh okay enrollment um it said it says 524 it's now 5:27 um they come every single day I feel at the middle school we were at 518 when we went home at the end of first semester and we're already at 527 um since then. So that's number of eight since January has changed because we got several this week and then I've only had two withdrawals um since in the last month or so and uh they one was moving and one was going to an online homechool platform um discipline. So our numbers are there. Uh my DAP number is definitely higher than what the high schools was. We had 34 in first
022semester. Um and you can see most of those numbers are falling under um vapes. So that's where most of that's coming from. All right. Um behavior trends. I wrote some things on there. Uh we we have had um some more difficult situations in some of our special classrooms. And then um you know just normal stuff. We we've had a rash of uh they roll up a piece of paper into a cone and put a staple in it and throw them into the ceiling. I'm I'm pulling those out of the ceiling all the time. Have a stick with a tennis ball and I knock them down. So that's that's the worst they're doing in middle school. We're okay. Um highlights things moving forward. We just had TSA regionals. We took uh between high school and middle
023school 85 kids over a Friday and Saturday to TSA competition. We don't have results back yet. Um Taffy goes not this coming weekend, but the next weekend for their state competition and then um y'all y'all already know about Miss Nickel, but she was recognized on the stage at Tassa Midwinter in San Antonio. And so that was kind of a big deal for her. That's all I got unless you have questions. Okay. >> Actually, sir, the one the three that Mr. Kamacho mentioned, uh, they're actually just moved. They come from Mlotheian proper. Uh, they weren't living in Venus at all. A lot of mine have come from large. Eventually I'll figure all this out. at the elementary. Our ac academic performance, 8% of our 641 students actually failed for the whole first semester. So when we
024looked at those, a lot of it was just not turning in work. And so we're starting, you know, we still pull them in and have them try to get their work done during recess. So, um, I think that number is going to go down. It's hard at the beginning getting right back into the swing of things. So, for intervention and, uh, academic support, we do have a win time, what I need, built into our daily schedules. Every grade level has a different 30 minute time. And during that 30 minute time, students move from different teachers, different classrooms based on what their need is. It's very fluid groups. We are um looking at our PLC during PLC's. We're looking at our exit tickets and making changes based on our exit tickets. We will be doing um
025I'm talking to Mr. Gatewood. I think we're going to probably try the Friday school. see what see if we can get some kids here for that after um our benchmark scores. We see some some areas of need. So, that's one of the things I would like to to try to see if we can get some get some of those scores up. For our attendance, we had 95% and I wished I had my tenth so I would know if I beat you or not, but >> I'm pretty sure, well, I don't know. I'm at 95. So anyway, so our attendance, of course, our attendance is based on on our parents getting our kids to to school, but we still do a lot of things. Um, we have contests between grade levels. We put our daily attendance
026out on a a poster in the hallway and kids look at it. So, we do lots of incentives where they get to, you know, if they win, then they get to have just like Kim said, snow cones, hot chocolate, what whatever whatever's happening that that season. So, we're we're doing okay. It seems to seems to be going up. I was worried about today because so many of my parents asked if we were having school, but we still had 95%, so that wasn't awful, but the flu is coming back around. So our total enrollment on the next page is 646. It really not much variance. I think this is the highest that we have been. Usually when our kids leave us it's relocation. We have maybe one or two that will go to homeschool situation. This
027year they're just there there's not much for homeschool. Most of the time it's just relocation. So, um, we are getting quite a few from Mansfield this week. I don't know what's maybe something's going on in any town with an M. I don't know. Um, our discipline and safety report about the worst thing we get is pushing each other during football at recess. So, we're we're pretty blessed. We we have very minor referrals in the classroom. A lot of times it's based on not turning in class. So, um, our highlights and positive outcomes. This is my favorite part. On the 4th of February, we took 63 students and 10 staff to Glenrose for a UIL competition. Wished I had our results, but we don't have those yet. So, that was fun. In March, we have our
028Spanish spelling bee. Our finalist is Axel T from fourth grade, and he is in Miss Rico's class. We have a fifth grade alternate in miss glasses class should we need them. The fun pictures are our life skills kiddos that have finished their Filipino traditions in their family and cultural traditions unit and they had a great time. They ended up uh making a traditional steamed rice cake as you can see one little guy there just in really enjoying it. And they played a game. The next next page we have a picture where they are play they were playing a game. What is the name of that game? I don't even know if I say it right. Pabitten or I'm not real sure. But the kiddos had a wonderful time playing it. You can see they constructed
029some kind of sticks or something. I I'm really not clear on what they did, but I just know that they were having a ball out there doing this game. And then the bottom picture is more eating. And my favorite part of that is the little boy in the background that's holding his hands up like, "Oh my goodness, it's they're so funny in there." Also happening on our campus, we are celebrating Black History Month. We have u an interactive gallery walk and our counselor has provided information for our teachers to share a little bit more about our black history. And in our morning announcements, we highlight some of our the biographies of our famous black history participants. And this rest of this is kind of a moot point right now. We did do Valentine card exchanges
030and we had some chocolate for the staff. And one of the things that we are focused on is our kindness. This is kindness month. So, we're having kids bring small travel size things like deodorant or toothpaste or things like that so that we can give them to um it's a shelter that I am not sure what the name of it is. I apologize for that, but our counselor is going to give them to shelters to kind of help take the burden off. So, that's all I've got. >> All right. Good evening. >> I missed going first. No. Okay. So, the primary school we um since our academics are a little bit different, so you know, we do a standardsbased grade report. So, um, it's hard for me to share that information with you. So, I
031I wanted to kind of elaborate on what our teachers have been doing with our new PLC process. So, it's been exciting for them. Um, so every week they're taking a deep dive into um to student data, bringing in artifacts, looking at it, really breaking down the questions, how students are high to low, um, and really, um, taking a a deep dive into what is the cause behind their progress. And so um as you can see our first grade teachers that first week of February what they did was they gave a 45 um assess 45 question assessment on composition or composing as you would think. Oh that's that's easy. No 0 to 10 for first graders is is difficult. And so what they did they had three minutes um to complete that assessment. And so what
032they found was that over 80% of the students uh were uh fluent um in their assessment. And so to us that's great. So that means we're on track. And so the next step will be targeting 0 to 20 and composing um those number problems. Same thing with first grade uh reading teachers. They're looking at uh comprehension questions and going back and having to look at the stories they read, the passages. Um and so when they provided a short answer comprehension question, uh multiple choice, uh uh 67% of the students passed. And so, uh, that's that's pretty high considering a lot of our students come into first grade still struggling, uh, with reading and those, uh, phonics skills. Um, for intervention, just kind of like we mentioned last month, uh, first grade, uh, students are being
033pulled. Uh, we have 15 specific students from GenEd who are being pulled daily by our special staff um, to be targeted intervention for math and reading skills. And then our bilingual teachers are also pulling um quite a few kindergarten and first grade bilingual students to support them. And then we've implemented a one hour once a week time with our first grade students. Um attendance report. I broke mine down by month. As you can see, we started off great and we have uh clearly uh declined as the year's gone on with the with the littles. There's a lot of illnesses. Um we we had flu A, now we were on to flu B. So it's a lot of communication with parents as as I can't you know discipline students for not coming to school. So it
034it falls back on us reaching out to parents. We have filed truency on five students. Um with the 4day school week we can now file when they have eight unexcused absences. So when they start getting to six and seven we communicate and then at 8 we've been we've been actively filing. Um for uh absences, obviously illnesses, family circumstances, we see a lot of our students travel out of the country. They want to go to Mexico for a week, but then we take the hit on attendance. Um and then appointments during the school day. Total enrollment is at 391. So we're we're staying pretty level. We have increased since the the start of the second semester. We have added eight students. And just like everybody else, we're seeing a lot of students from Arlington and Mansfield.
035We do have one student in DAP, a first grade student who uh has received a discipline from a different district and as they transferred in, we honored that discipline. Other than that, when you have uh prek through first grade students, we have a lot of emotions, uh limited self-regulation, short attention spans. Um and so we just we work on building those uh social emotional skills, lots of patience from our teachers. Um and then, uh coming up, we have a lot of things happening. Tomorrow is our hundth day of school. We're excited about that. We're kicking off our big kahuna fundraiser. We have a bilingual ESL family night coming up. Um, this week our FFA students from the high school will be coming over to read to the students and then our PTO is scheduling a
036spring carnival in April. So, it's exciting times at the primary. Thank you. Go to item number seven, presentation of the annual perform performance report. Mrs. Come on. Am I am I on now? Sorry, I had I had the light covered up. Um I couldn't tell. So, uh this report as well as all of the reports in it are available on the website under required postings. Also, any community, stakeholder, parent, student can request a paper copy of the report. All they have to do is send an email um and they can either come by and pick it up or we can mail it to them. So that is also available. All right. So there are actually eight sections to the annual report. So I'm not going to bore you with all of them because we're going
037to talk about each one of them. So we can move right along. There we go. All right. Eight required sections. So the first required section, which is the big section, is the Texas academic performance report. Um and that is this clicker working? Can I click? Let's see. Okay. All right. Um, so for the Texas academic performance report, um, this is the what we call the taper. This is compiled by TEA every year. Um, a lot most of this information is for 2425. Some of the information is actually for 2324. So, I'm going to highlight what um what is what is from 2425 and what is from the year before. Um, so all of the reports are linked right here. They're also posted under required postings and anybody can request these on paper at any time.
038Um, and like I said, they can either pick them up or we can mail them. So the first page of the taper report is the cover sheet. Um, so it has our district information, our district accountability score, and our special education determination status for the year. So this is for 2025. If at any point y'all have questions, please stop me um because it's a lot of data, so I'm going to go pretty fast. All right, so star performance, it has our star performance. It has the star performance for both 25 and 24, so you can compare. It also uh includes the state and the region 11 performances. So I've put just some of the bigger overarching data on here. So all grades, all subjects, which is every single STAR test that was taken. Um so
039for 2025 as a district um this does include approaches, meets and masters. So it breaks it down by performance level. So as a district we were at 62% for approaches, 32% for meets grade level or higher and then 9% for M's grade level or higher. Um and this data is not new. It's something that we've seen already a couple of times in the STAR scores and um some other reports that we've done. Um, this is just kind of a broader um a broader a broader picture of it. Um, it also breaks it down here by um RLA and by math. So, same thing. These are all of our grades. So, grades three through EOCC's. Um, and for RLA and reading, you have approaches, meets, and masters. And then for math as well, you have approaches,
040meets, and masters. All right. Next, we have what's called the profile of a graduate. Um, so what this does is it takes our graduating class and this information is actually from 2324. So it's about a year and a half lagged. Um, it takes our graduating class and it breaks down the profile of the graduating class. So it has your total graduates which for 2324 we had 156 graduates. Um, it breaks it down by ethnicity. Also breaks it down by graduation type. So you'll notice there that we had uh 76% of our students uh graduated on that says DLA which that's a distinguished um program. So that means that they took the right classes, the right kinds of rigor um in order to graduate on um on that program. And then it also breaks it down
041by special education, economically disadvantaged EB at risk and CTE completers. So, um, for our graduating class, we had, um, 11% of those graduates were considered, uh, special education graduates. We had 76% of those were economically disadvantaged. We had 24% were emergent bilingual. Uh, we had 50% at risk. Um, so 50% at risk of not graduating, and they all graduated. So, um, and then we've got our CTE completers, which means they've taken four years of a coherent CTE pathway. Um, that's at 33%. Any questions there? All right, moving on. Uh, some more demographics for you. This is for the district as a whole. So, as as a whole, um, we are 75% economically disadvantaged. Uh 7% of our students are section 504 or receive services under section 504. 11.2% receive special education services. 31% are considered
042emergent bilingual. 6.4% are gifted and talented. Uh 67.6% are at risk of not graduating. Um and 13.8% 8% are considered highly mobile students, which means they withdraw, return, or do not stay in a district for a long amount of time. All right, any questions about that data before we move on to section two? All right, moving right along. This is more Lany's wheelhouse, um, but we do have to include it in here. So, this is our actual financial data. This again is from 2324. That is the latest data that's posted right now. So, it is about a year and a half flag. Y'all have also already seen this before, so I'm not going to go over any of that part. Um, it also has our first rating up there, um, which is a for superior
043achievement. All right, district accreditation status. So section three, every year TEA assigns us an accreditation status and we are required um to put that here. And so for 2324 which is the most recent one that they have assigned um the district status is accredited. All right moving on. Uh campus improvement plans. So each campus is developed and is implementing a campus improvement plan. Each campus improvement plan includes performance objectives and measures progress periodically. So, um I'm not going to go over each campus improvement plan, but each one is posted under required postings and plans on the website. Um we've also um already reviewed them at other times during this year. Um and then um so if anybody wants to see those, they can at any time. And again, if any stakeholder wants a a paper
044copy of those, those can be requested as well. All right, moving right along. Maybe did we get stuck? going really slow. All right. Section five, report on violent or criminal incidents. Um so this report must include um the number, rate, and type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each campus. So there's a lot of it up here. Um we only actually had two that I'm going to bring your um the attention to. Um there are a couple of them that have asterisks. If they have asterisks, it means there was less than five students um that were reported. And for confidentiality reasons, we are required to aster that out. So if there's an asterk, it means there's more than zero but less than five. Um and then uh number 36 over there, which is
045felony controlled substance. Um so Venus Middle School and Venus High School, um were the ones, and those were um also mentioned a little bit when we talked about discipline in their campus reports as well. Um so any questions here? So percentage-wise, we're at 1% for the high school and for the middle school um for violent or criminal incidents. All right, now I just broke it. All right, we're moving right on to section six. Let's see. Oh, there we go. Okay. All right. Section six, student performance in postsecary institutions. So the Texas um coordinating board for higher education uh tracks information for graduates from Texas um and basically what they do after they um graduate high school and what's called post-secary performance. Um so this right here is our information and this information is two years
046lacked. Um, so it shows you uh the total number of graduates um which for this year was 167 and then it shows you the number of students that went to a 4-year public university was 23. The number of students that went to a two-year public university was 38. Uh we had two students go to an independent or private university. Um nine were not trackable and 95 were not found. Um so of those 167 you can see the breakdown there. You can also look at their GPA. So it actually tracks their GPA when they do go to college and how um how they perform. Um so you can see the number of students that um got a 3.5 or higher. Um the number of students that got between a 3.0 and a 3.49. Um and so
047it actually tracks them by GPA. So, any questions about that? This is very interesting data. Um, every year I get a question about the not found or not not trackable. Um, and so some of this means that they either um did not go to college and some of it could also mean that they went out of state or out of country. Um, so it's really hard to tell. Um, we track some of our students but as a cohort to track all 167 students. And again these are these numbers are a couple of year l a couple of years lagged. All right so moving on section seven. So section seven says that um we must report on the progress of our house bill three goals. Um so you've seen the house bill three goals before. Um
048we have an early literacy goal which is third grade reading. We have an early math goal which is third grade math. And then we have a CCMR goal. So, if you look up here, um you'll see that House Bill three goals are fiveyear rolling goals. So, we set them um starting with 2025 and we set them for five years. Um so, our first goal for 2025, if you look at the early childhood literacy goal, our goal was 28% and these are meets or higher, not approaches or higher. Um so, the way that House Bill 3 goals are written, it's meats or higher. So, our goal um for our third grade RLA was 28% meets or higher for 2025. And you can see our subsequent goals there. Um and for last year, our actual was 25%.
049So, we were about 3% short. Um for math, our goal um for 2025 was 23% meets or higher and our actual was 22%. So, we were about uh 1% off. So, you can see our goals there for 2026. Um, for our reading, uh, third grade reading this year, we're at 35%. And then for, um, third grade math, we're at 28% there. And then you can also see our long-term goals. And then moving right along to CCMR, which is our third House Bill 3 goal. Um, you can see that our 2025 um, goal was 65%. Um, and we our actual goal was 83%. So, we blew that one out of the water. um that 88% goal that we were um that we were striving for. That's what it takes to get an A for CCMR for
050accountability. Um so we will be at that. We will be at that this next year. Remember CCMR is always a year lagged. Um so what we do now, what we see next year is actually stuff that was done about a year and a half to two years before. All right, moving right along. The taper glossery. Um have to include this in there. It basically explains everything in that 37 page taper report. All what everything means, the different performance levels, data points, and how things are calculated. So that is included in the taper. It's also included in the report. So anybody wants to take a look at that, they can do that. Um, finally, federal uh report cards are available. They're available in two places on the TEA website or the Venus ISD required postings. Um,
051so again, all of this will posted under required postings. Any uh anybody can request a copy of these both in paper or by email um or to be mailed to their house if they contact either the district central office or myself. Um any questions? Okay. All right. You're welcome. Go to item eight, presentation of ESS subst substitute system data. Mr. Martinez. All right. Good evening. Uh bring you the uh fall 2025 mid year review from August 2025 to December 2022. So last year the numbers the field absences 643 unfilled absences 476 for a field rate of 57%. Uh teachers uh 357 unfilled 570 field for a rate of 61 and then you can see the rest of the personnel that were absent there. Now for this year field absences 810 unfilled 453 for a field
052rate of 64%. So the percent rate uh field went up there were 144 more total request and 167 67 more field request again teachers 358 on field field 704 for 67% field rate for teachers and then the rest of the personnel are there. That's >> Yeah. >> All right. Here's the top absences. Absent reasons. Thank you, Mr. Uh local day personal 406 followed by state personal leave for 26 263 uh leave without pay 211 school business 195 and vacant positions 146. >> I have a question. Um do you track and maybe I'm getting ahead of you but do y'all track the um lead time that people give you? Like is there >> it's the I'll be quiet. >> It's okay. Good question. All right. So, here's the total absences by month. Uh October was a
053hype month and uh I was told that in many of the district October somehow I don't know why they were the highest. Um so August they were uh 165 and you can see their unfilled field and the total is it's the black. So at in August the 54% field the 61% field in September uh is that 85% for October 68% November and 66% in December. Total absences by days of the week I thought Thursday would take it but no we have Monday as well and even Tuesday is in there. So they're being absent uh almost all week even on Fridays when we come on Fridays. So yeah. So then and that is why we are the the principles get a absence report every month and they are asked to be proactive about talking to people
054that are getting up there in absences and tell them we need you here. total absences by school and of course middle school and high school are going to have the most. They have more movement in uh absences where the coaches are going to to uh to um meets and all that which creates more absences lead times. So here's your question that what we see is that if they put their absences 24 hours or more or lead time of 24 hours or more then they get filled more 80%. And then the day of the absence is the the I would figure that would be the lowest but it's not is 0 to 12 hour lead is the lowest 12 to 24hour lead 51% field and then there's ESS recruiting strategy their hiring numbers there's 152 active
055subs hiring 62 new substit institutes 13 subs deactivated by requesting activity and we do have like three subs that we hired as teachers and parents. So we're hiring their people as well and their spring goals is to hire 45 new. I think they're 15 we hired already since december. And they have other people we can request even though we only do teachers. Their cost breakdown, their price markup of 36.5% which means that they paid non-certified $80 times their 36.5% and they charge us $109 with 20 cents. 36.5% 12285 is what the district pays uh so far in December uh cost was 72,727 and then for certified 27,641 ESS offloads the cost of payroll taxes general liability insurance and workers compensation insurance the markup is only charged when a substitute is working >> and we're sure
056that we're not covering them on our workers Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> Uh, Kelly Education is the next one that wants to come and serves as a subs. Uh, recap of our mission. Yes. Yes. So, I brought you what we have and then the two that won our business. So, Kelly Education is the one that's next. Uh, 5.6 6 absence bill on 2425 provider and substitute educators in US and I gave you a presentation with the numbers as well. >> None. >> Yeah, they're they're north and that's where the problem lies. How we can help? What's included? There's financial responsibility, scheduling and reporting, recruiting, screening and onboarding, management and quality control, retention, recognition and development, expanding your administrator capabilities. Uh they do everything. We they just pay them when they come. How we recruit mostly
057on their website. Role base requires screening and training. Candidate pre-qualification, evaluation, recognition and screening research is clear training and credential positively impact student achievement. They do train their substitute teachers. They do have their own training. Class march, Paris march and child smarts is what they call them. But they offer healthcare insurance, retirement, and perks for their subs. Implementation process from day one. If we were to go with them, have a premeating, kickoff meeting, data exchange, communications, transition, recruiting for new roles, district training. They go live in 45 to 60 day review. Takeaways. They give us an account manager. Specialized Kelly education team will eliminate the management burden of VISD staff and deliver a compliant high performing substitute workforce. Here there's their team and then their proposed 1.375 markup for non-deree that they pay him $80.
058We pay them 110 for a short-term certified teacher, $90,12375. Long-term certified teacher, $100 a day. We pay them1 137.50 a day. >> Um, real quick, what we're doing right now does not match what's on our agenda because we're comparing the different um companies. >> Okay. >> So, I'm a little concerned that we're not doing on our agenda. Okay. >> Because our agenda just says uh presentation of ESS substitute system data. >> Okay. >> So, >> okay. So, we can Yeah. >> I don't know if Okay. Yeah. So, I think maybe um what we can do is maybe at the next one we can do >> I can bring you the other two then we'll do that. >> Yeah. Did anybody have any questions on ESS? >> Nope. Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. We
059will go to executive session at 7:07 p.m. to go over 551.071, 551.072, 551.074, 551.076, 551.082, and 551.0821. We'll go to item 10, reconvene from executive session at 8:10 p.m. Go to item number 11, consent agenda. Did anybody have any questions on anything on the consent agenda? Motion by Greg. We got a second. >> Second by Amber. All in favor. Motion carries. >> Item 12, consider approval of administrator contracts. >> I'll make a motion to approve administrator contracts as presented. >> Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? >> Second by Donald. All in favor? Motion carries. Go Donald. >> Item 13, consider approval of targeted improvement plan. Does um Okay, good. >> Go ahead. Oh, I was going to say, >> nope, you do you do yours first and then I say something else, but
060>> Yes, you do. Okay. So, we presented the targeted or actually Dr. Morgan did presented the targeted improvement plans to you all in November. It was a full slideshow. I can go through that if you would like again, but you've been presented with that. Um, basically, uh, all four had to, well, primary goes with elementary. Everyone had to develop a plan. We had to submit it, which we did, but it does require board approval and it requires public comment. >> Did anybody have any questions? Do we have any public comment? No. Okay. Do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the targeted improvement plan. >> A motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Joe. All in favor? Motion carries. Item 14, consider approval of budget amendment number three,
061Lanny. Uh, this budget amendment is just a housekeeping budget amendment. Um, there's nothing coming out of fund balance. It's all related to our 599 debt service fund. And I'm simply trying to create a revenue uh line code to offset an existing debt aotment that we received from the state. >> We have any questions? Oh, do we have a motion? >> Motion by Greg. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Amber. All in favor? Motion carries. Thank you. Item 15, consider and approve guaranteed maximum price GMP for phase one New Venus High School. Mr. Gatewood. >> Uh yes, ma'am. Uh as you're aware, we're currently in the process of uh we went out for a bond, passed a bond for $76 million to build phase one of the new Venus High School.
062Um we went through the uh process and selected core as a construction company and they have uh came up with a contract for a guaranteed maximum price uh for the construction manager at risk for $63 million uh $831,550 uh for the maximum cost that it will cost the district. again is a construction manager at risk. Meaning that that is the bottom line that they will receive from us unless the board changes scope of the project. >> Does anybody have any questions? >> No. Do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the guaranteed maximum price for phase one. >> Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Donald. All in favor? Motion carries. >> Item 16, consider approval of matters related to personnel resignations, employment position, or contract amendments. >>
063Make a motion. >> Oh. >> Uh yes, ma'am. We do have a math teacher that the high school is seeking to uh hire. Uh reason being we had two resign in December. We hired one uh last board meeting and we have a second one this board meeting. Ma'am, >> any questions? Do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve all matters related to personnel, resignation, employment. >> Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? >> Second by Joe. All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 17 reports. Mr. Gatewood. >> Uh yes, ma'am. Uh hey this month I want to talk about uh how this I want to focus on the strength uh of Venus here across the campuses. Our staff remains committed to student learning and they continue demonstrating professionalism,
064adaptability and a strong focus on doing what is best for kids. Um asking the principles to do uh more than ever I I do recognize this here and they're meeting the challenge which is evident uh academically by the benchmarks and different things. It's encouraging some of the work that I see especially with the recent benchmarks and the PC work that is going on. Uh Dr. Vagger came in she retoed our uh PC process and the teachers have bought in wholeheartedly. But I do realize it is a lot of work. So I do want to highlight there uh that our campus principles are doing great work and leading their campuses. Uh one of the things here again we continue planning for the new uh phase one of the Venus High School. uh preparations are underway to
065ensure the facility opens ready to support teaching and learning. Uh from a financial standpoint, uh we do have an interim CO CFO and he's doing a tremendous job. Uh we remain uh focused on fiscal discipline, closely monitoring our ADA trends and preparing for the 26 27 budget. So hopefully be bringing that to you shortly. I know uh Mr. Thompson there, he's uh done quite a bit of work. He set some meetings up with the principles one-on-one uh totally transparent process with them. Uh also want to highlight a big win for us uh that we did here and it was uh tell you what our uh property value study. We were one of the few districts in Johnson County that ours passed and it was accepted. I didn't I wasn't summoned to a meeting like the
066rest of the superintendent in Johnson County. I felt kind of it was kind of a strange thing on a text message strand with most of them. They said they all failed. They all failed, which made me hesitant to open up our report to open it up. And sure enough, we passed. I said, "So, I just reply back in the text strand. I don't need to go to that meeting. We pass." So, that just says that we're doing the uh great things financially uh and is approved by the uh certified by Johnson County's property tax values for Venus ISD. Uh what that does that protects our funding and preserve our fund bond our bond funding capacity. Uh in short uh what's happening guys I again I want to go ahead and thank our staff and our
067students and our families our community for their continued support. I see great work happening around the district. It is uh whether it's student success uh with our basketball girls basketball team making the playoffs uh to we have academic success. We have middle school kids going to uh to TSA uh doing different things out there. They're out there achieving great things. We have great things happening which is evidenced by people from other communities such as Arlington, uh, Mansfield, Mclothium choosing to make Venus their home and choosing to educate their kids here. So, we're getting an influx of kids from other cities that are choosing Venus, which speaks a lot about the district, speaks a lot about the city. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Turn it on. Okay. uh short and sweet because everyone wants
068to like do the basketball update, right? Uh so we rolled PLC's out to everyone as you know and so those have all been rolled out to the campuses um like Mr. Gatewood said. Um change is hard for people mid year but everyone seems to be like really working hard and really especially the principles um and trying to uh roll it out in a way that teachers can digest it and be able to do it. But we've heard really great feedback also from from the process. Uh benchmark tests are mostly complete as you said. We have some areas um of growth to highlight, but we also have some areas, you know, honestly that we we need to make some plans for. Um and so Thursday, I'll be meeting with the CNI department to talk about how
069we can respond to that uh data that we got. Um the principles have continued getting coaching uh from region 11 through Jimmy uh with region 11 and that's going really great. So he uh he really is kind of giving them practical things they can do and just kind of some principal mentorship and so they have someone to go to and kind of ask questions to. Um and they've told me it's going great and Jimmy has also kind of met with Howard and told us that it's going really great. Um what else do I have? We're going to still stay focused on that district-wide walkthrough form. Um and we'll start planning with the CNI department on PD for next year. Um that'll be kind of an upcoming project for me with the CNI department. Um and
070then yeah, we'll work on STAR plans for the whole district for all the campuses. >> And I've also tked Dr. Vega to develop the calendar for next year. She will be uh working through that process. >> Yeah, we'll start that uh this week actually. And then you know we have something to present to you guys uh in the near future. You sent us out some information on the geotech firm soil testing and the ranking on that. Has that been selected? >> Uh yes, sir. We're going to bring that to you uh next board meeting, sir. Yes, sir. >> Mr. Gatewood said, you know, we're in the budget building process meeting with campuses and departments. Uh we'll be bringing uh preliminary updates uh this next board meeting as far as numbers and what goes into the
071budget building and then we're going to wrap um budget building final values with campuses and departments at the end of March and then hopefully having a pretty rock solid budget going into April with final approval in May. >> Okay. Um does anybody We'll go to item number 18, board request for additional items. Anybody have any additional items they would like for next month's meeting? >> The budget workshops. >> Yeah. Okay. Yes. Any other questions request? Nope. Our next scheduled meeting is March 23rd and we will go to item 19 adjourn at 8:21