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Medford School District Board of Education

Objective Key Result and Key Performance Indicators

Objective Key Result: 

ALL MSD students graduate with the skills, knowledge, curiosity, and drive to succeed in a job, trade school, college, or university.  

Board/District Goals (Key Performance Indicators): 

  1. Students Can Read: Third Grade Reading, State Assessment 

  2. Students Are Numerate: Eighth Grade Math, State Assessment

  3. Students Are Engaged: YouthTruth, Engagement Measure   

  4. Students Graduate: Four Year Graduation Rate and Five Year Completer Rate

  5. Students Leave Prepared: Students Graduating in a Pathway and/or With a Future Plan  

      All Key Performance Indicators will be measured in aggregate, and disaggregated by student group.

2023-2024 Goal: Reading achievement at least at pre-pandemic levels.

Priorities and Desired Outcomes 2023-2024: 

  • In order to know every student by name, strength, and need, identify the academic, social, and emotional needs of every student and develop a plan to help meet those needs.

  • Provide a system for intentional systematization of flexible credit opportunities to facilitate graduating on time.

  • Identify and adopt effective teaching and learning methods and strategies with a focus on reading and literacy.

  • Improve safety and security.

Created:  March 4, 2021 Board Work Session

Revised:  March 11, 2021 Executive Leadership Team (Shared with Board 3.12.21)

Adopted: March 18, 2021 Board Meeting

Revised: July 25, 2022 Board Retreat

Measures of the System

Objective Key Result:  ALL students graduate with the skills, knowledge, curiosity, and drive to succeed in a job, trade school, college, or university.  

  Measure

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19 

2017-18

  4-year Cohort Graduation Rate*

85%

87.2%

82.4%

83.4%

80.3%

80.5%

5-year Cohort Completer Rate*

90.3%

89%

87.4%

89.8%

87.5%

85.3%

Graduates with Pathway Endorsement*** 

Released in January ‘24

64%

***

3rd Grade Reading*

36%

38%

**

**

42.9%

48.2%

8th Grade Mathematics*

24%

27%

**

**

43%

46%

YouthTruth High School, Engagement

21

(Percentile)

19 (Percentile)

5 (Percentile)

18 (Percentile)

27 (Percentile)

14 (Percentile)

YouthTruth Middle School, Engagement

14

(Percentile)

31 (Percentile)

24 (Percentile)

55 (Percentile)

60 (Percentile)

38 (Percentile)

YouthTruth Elementary Family, Engagement

30

(Percentile)

11 (Percentile)

***

 Regular Attenders*

64%

68%

**

**

92.9%

92.9%

9th Grade On-Track*

78%

75%

63%**

79.3%** 

86.3%

87.7%

Organizational Health Index (OHI)  (recommend school/dept. as a great place to work)

63%

55%

73%

  Early Literacy (1st Grade EOY)

43%

41%

33%

**

49%

54%

  Talented and Gifted Overall

8%

7%

6.3%

7.4%

7.5%

7.1%

Percentage TAG from Higher Poverty Schools   (50% of Schools)

20%

20%

33%

33%

Dual Credit/College Credit/AP Credit Earned

***

***

Student Discipline: Students Receiving Out-of-School Suspension 

(930)
6.74%

(732)

6%

**

(604)

4.17%

(699)

4.86%

(568)

3.99%

Teacher Retention

84%

84%

85%

84%

*Student Success Act Measure and State Report Card Measures

**Not reported due to COVID / 2019-20 & 2020-21 school year are not directly comparable to rates published for prior school years due to low participation rates

***In Development

BOLD = Board/District Goal