Visalia Unified releases first Priority Student Outcomes Report showing gains in ELA, math

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Visalia Unified School District is aiming to support transparency by sharing its inaugural Priority Student Outcomes report.

It includes section measures of pupil occurrence on with the district's authorities show results.

Superintendent Kirk Shrum says that together, it gives a broad look astatine pupil achievement.

"And truthful what we saw this year, some successful ELA and math, is we saw growth, we saw points toward the standard," VUSD Superintendent Kirk Shrum.

According to the 2025 California Dashboard, the territory accrued by 9.3 points wide successful English Language Arts and by 5.9 points successful Mathematics.

Despite the increases, the territory remains beneath modular successful some categories.

However, Shrum highlighted definite groups that made strides successful ELA, specified arsenic Hispanic students, who grew by 10 points and Students with disabilities, who grew by 12.6 points.

"This information shows that portion we person enactment up of us. We're closing that gap," says Shrum. "And so, you know, to me, it's, it's a, truly an denotation of the enactment that's happening wrong our classrooms each day."

In summation to authorities results, the Visalia Unified Board of Education adopted locally defined Priority Student Outcomes.

That includes each pupil graduating with skills to hole them for a career, college, and life, and each pupil engaging successful schoolhouse and increasing toward proficiency successful literacy and mathematics astatine each grade.

Those outcomes are past measured by circumstantial metrics.

"You know, for a parent, is my kid? Does my kid consciousness harmless astatine school? Is my kid portion of a club, an organization, oregon an after-school activity?" says the Superintendent. "So not conscionable the world piece, but that participation, that belonging piece, and by having a operation of those measures, it truly allows america to look much holistically astatine the acquisition experience.

The territory said the outcomes were created to align with its five-year strategical plan.
Compared with the multi-year baselines established by the board, the information showed maturation crossed each areas.

The Priority pupil outcomes are monitored quarterly and reported publically to the committee doubly a year.

Shrum says these reports volition assistance the territory find which steps to take.

"And truthful erstwhile we spot advancement connected these indicators, it shows we're moving successful the close direction. And if we spot an indicator that possibly we didn't person that advancement on, it means, arsenic a district, we request to spell backmost and survey and analyse and revamp and that's each portion of continuous improvement, and what we're committed to arsenic a schoolhouse system," Shrum says.

If the territory reaches a extremity aboriginal and sustains it, the committee volition travel unneurotic to acceptable a caller people based connected progress.

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