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Annual Performance ReportBrazosport Independent School District

February 22, 2021

Good evening! in accordance with Board Policy AIB (Legal) and requirements under Texas Education Code Chapter 39.306, and in alignment with district goals one, two and four, it is my pleasure this evening to conduct a hearing on the 2020 BISD Annual Performance Report.

2020 Annual Performance Report• District Accreditation Status: Accredited

• Special Education Determination: Needs Intervention

• PEIMS 2018-2019 Financial Actual Report: Superior FIRST Rating

• Texas Academic Performance Report, or TAPR

• Campus Performance Objectives with Progress

• School Safety Report

• Student Performance in Postsecondary Institutions

Texas Education Code Chapter 39.306 requires each public school district’s Board of Trustees to publish an annual report that includes the Texas Academic Performance Report, the PEIMS Financial Actual Report, the district accreditation status, campus performance objectives with progress, special education determination status, a school safety report, and information on the performance of BISD graduates in their first year of college in a Texas public two- or four-year institute of higher education.

The District Accreditation Status continues to be Accredited. The special education determination status is Needs Intervention as a result of being identified as Stage 4 in the Results-Driven Accountability System. The Special Services Department, with the assistance of a district leadership team, identified several areas on which to focus improvement efforts this year that will decrease the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate of students served by special education. We are in year three of an intensive and ongoing plan to improve special education student outcomes.

Included in your Board packet is the 2018-2019 PEIMS Financial Actual Report. This report is the final financial report for the 2018-2019 school year, and compares district revenues and expenditures to those of the state for the same year. The financial report is organized around the Public Education Information Management System, or PEIMS, reportable categories. This year, our district once again earned the state’s highest financial rating of Superior in the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST).

The remaining reports you see listed on this slide will be reviewed in detail beginning with the Texas Academic Performance Report.

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2020 TAPR Content• Section 1: Student Achievement and Progress

• Section 2: Lagging Indicators–District Attendance, Graduation, and Dropout Rates–District College, Career, and Military Readiness –College readiness

• Section 3: Student Information

• Section 4: Staff Information

• The Financial Standards Report

The Texas Academic Performance Report, also known as the TAPR, is divided into several sections, with an additional link to the PEIMS Actual Financial Standards Report at the end of the document. There are four major sections to the TAPR as you can see listed on this slide. The first section, student academic achievement, includes performance data from 2019 compared to 2018 since the STAAR test was not administered last spring. Section two reports on a group of lagging indicators from the 2018-2019 school year. Lagging indicators are data that are one year behind. Section three provides a closer look at what our student population and demographics were a year ago, while section 4 provides teacher demographics and information. Although the focus of tonight’s report is on the district TAPR, I’ve included the campus’ TAPRs in your Board book, and a link to them has been posted on the district website.

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2020 Student Achievement Report

● Due to the Coronavirus, students did not take STAAR exams in the spring of 2020.

● The district and all campuses received a Not Rated: Declared State of Disaster accountability rating in 2020.

As you can see from this chart that I included in last year’s report, in 2019 BISD students improved their STAAR performance over the previous year. In 2018, students improved their performance on 15 of the 22 assessments at Approaches Grade Level. In 2019, however, they improved on 18 of 22 exams. Not only that, but their performance at Meets grade level improved on 19 of 22 exams, and 18 of 22 exams at Masters grade level. Also in 2019, the performance of students identified as English Learners improved in the all tests taken measure. Additionally, Special Education student performance also improved in all performance levels for the all tests taken measure.

Performance data from 2019 were used by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform National Schools to Watch program to identify Freeport Intermediate and Lanier Middle Schools as National Schools to Watch. Student growth as measured by STAAR 2018 and 2019 results played a key role in the nomination by TEA of A.P. Beutel for Blue Ribbon School selection.

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2020 TAPR Lagging Indicators• Information that is one year behind• Reports include:

–Attendance rate

–Dropout and graduation rates

–Students graduating Endorsed/Advanced

–CCMR performance reports

–College readiness reports

The next section of the TAPR features a group of lagging indicators from the 2018-2019 school year. Reports in this section cover attendance and the many measures of postsecondary readiness. The following slide provides you with an at-a glance look at the TAPR lagging indicators.

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Lagging Indicators

18-19 17-18 Change

Attendance Rate 94.7% 94.6% 0.1%

Dropout Rate 7-12 0.4% 0.2% 0.2%

Dropout Rate 9-12 2.2% 2.3% -0.1%

4-year Graduation 89.7% 88.1% 1.6%

Grads on Adv. & Endors. Plans 98.7% 96.8% 1.9%

CCMR Graduates 68.5% 64.0% 4.5%

College Ready Graduates 41.0% 47.2% -6.2%

AP Results (Gr 11-12) >= Criterion 46.5% 43.7% 2.8%

Graduates enrolled in TX Inst. HE 55.2% 54.2% 1.0%

● The attendance rate for 2018-2019 was up slightly over the previous year.

● The dropout rate for grades 7-12 went up slightly, while the rate for grades 9-12 went down slightly.

● The four-year graduation rate for 2019 was 89.7%, which was much higher than the 88.1% in 2018.

● Also up was the percentage of graduates who graduated with an endorsement or on an advanced graduation program.

● The percentage of high school graduates who earned at least one College, Career and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicator increased from 64% in 2018 to 68.5% in 2019. That’s an increase of 19.7% since 2017.

● The percentage of college ready graduates dropped in 2019. As you will hear later on this evening, our high schools are actively tracking the CCMR readiness of seniors, and one point of emphasis in their tracking is to provide support and opportunities to seniors to take and pass the reading and math sections of the SAT, ACT and TSIA, thus demonstrating that they are college ready.

● The percentage of students who scored a three or above on one or more AP exams increased by 2.8%.

● Finally, the percentage of students who enrolled in a Texas institute of higher education the fall after graduation increased by one percent from 54.2% to 55.2%.

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2020 CCMR Results

A tremendous amount of time and effort has been expended to ensure that BISD students graduate from high school future-ready. As you can see by this table, those efforts are paying off as the percentage of CCMR ready graduates continues to increase, resulting in “A” performances in both 2019 and 2020.

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2020 Student and Staff Information• Student and teacher demographics

–Student information

–Staff information

Sections 3 and 4 of the TAPR report on student and staff information.

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Enrollment Trends

We begin with enrollment. Enrollment for 2020, which was recorded on the last Friday in October of 2019, was 12,158 students. As you can see by the trend line, enrollment dropped over the last two years, with a precipitous drop this year. COVID-19 had a significant impact on our overall enrollment, but especially for PK and Kindergarten enrollments. Additionally, our bilingual program saw a significant drop in enrollment this year as families moved out of the area seeking work. PK, K and Bilingual education combined accounted for 74% of our drop in enrollment this year.

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Student Ethnic Distribution

Despite the significant drop in enrollment, however, our student ethnic makeup remained relatively unchanged.

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Economically Disadvantaged Students

Despite a drop in enrollment of 734 students on snapshot day, we had an increase of 953 students who were identified as economically disadvantaged. That increase provides a stark picture of how the community has been impacted by COVID-19 and the availability of fewer jobs in the area.

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Student enrollment by program

• Student enrollment by program–12.6% English Learners (-0.4%)–32.8% Career and Technical Education (+0.6%)–9.8% Gifted and Talented Education (+0.6%)–10.0% Special Education (+1.2%)

The percentage of students served as English Learners was down by 0.4% from 2019, while the percentage of students who participated in CTE courses continued to increase. In 2020, 32.8% of students in BISD were enrolled in a CTE class. Keep in mind that the percentage is calculated by dividing the number of students in CTE courses by the total district enrollment. To better understand the significance of the CTE enrollment percentage, when the number of CTE students is divided by the enrollment for grades 7-12, the grade levels for which students are eligible to enroll in a CTE course, the percentage is 75.1%.

Our percentage of students who qualify for and are receiving services through special education increased by 1.2% from 8.8% to 10.0%. Preliminary snapshot data for this year indicates that the percentage of special education students for this year has increased even more to 11.8%.

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Student to Teacher Ratio Trend

We begin our look at teacher demographics by looking at the change in the student to teacher ratio. The district student to teacher ratio shrank even further from 2019 to 14 to 1 in 2020. As you can see, the efforts by the board of trustees to increase the number of teachers has had the beneficial outcome of lowering the student to teacher ratio by 2 students per teacher since 2015, and in putting the district rate well below that of the state.

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Average Teacher Salary

BISD teachers continue to be among the highest paid in the state. This table provides a quick glance at the average salary trend line compared to that of the state since 2015. The positive gap between the average BISD teacher salary compared to the statewide average has increased from $1,227 to $3,207 over that time span.

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Teacher Turnover

The impact of increased salaries, stipends and incentives, along with reduced class size ratios, can be seen in the reduction in the teacher turnover rate, especially since the spring of 2017, when many of those initiatives were passed. Our current turnover rate of 16.3%, which is below that of the state, is up from last year. The turnover rate can be flipped to provide a retention rate. The retention rate, therefore, was 83.7% last year.

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Campus Performance Objectives• Aligned with the five student outcome goals;

• Each campus created strategies for each performance objective;

• Campuses evaluate progress on each performance objective quarterly.

Texas Education Code requires each campus to have an improvement plan with performance objectives and to measure progress toward meeting those objectives. Principals and campus leadership teams aligned campus performance objectives with the district’s five strategic plan goals and the three House Bill 3 student outcome goals as they wrote their 2021 campus Improvement Plans. They then created strategies to support their efforts to accomplish each performance objective. Campuses evaluate progress on accomplishing performance objectives each quarter. The Annual Performance Report is required to include a report on the progress each campus is making toward meeting their performance objectives. Using the same system used to measure progress on the performance objectives in the district improvement plan, campuses evaluate their progress as:

● Accomplished, meaning 96% to 100% implementation.● Considerable progress, meaning 50% to 95% implementation.● Some progress, meaning 5% to 49% implementation.● No progress, meaning the strategy has not been started, or less than

5% implementation has occurred; and● Discontinued, meaning that the strategy was discontinued for

2020-2021.

The two slides that follow will provide you with a progress report for each campus.

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Elementary Schools Progress

The table you see here features the district elementary schools. As you can see, as campuses evaluated their mid-year progress, most elementary school campuses reported making considerable progress toward or accomplishing the strategies that support their performance objectives. After reviewing the progress of each elementary campus, all of them are on track to accomplish or make significant progress toward meeting their performance objectives for the year.

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Secondary Schools Progress

Our secondary school campuses are also at different stages of implementation of their strategies. Again, most have made considerable progress or accomplished many of their strategies. Even though Brazoswood High School has fewer strategies rated as considerable progress or accomplished, the campus, along with the other secondary schools, is on track to accomplish or make significant progress toward meeting their performance objectives for the year.

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2019 School Safety Report• Texas statute (TEC 39.306) requires every district to publish an

annual report that includes information on violent or criminal incidents at campuses along with school violence prevention and intervention policies and procedures.

• In 2019-2020 there were no violent or criminal incidents that occured.

• BISD provides 68 programs to support student safety!

The next report included in tonight’s presentation is the 2020 School Safety Report. Texas statute requires every district to publish a report on school safety at their schools. BISD publishes this report on our website under Required Postings. The report includes a table that provides statutorily required data, along with a complete listing of district safety initiatives. There were no violent or criminal incidents reported in 2019-2020.

To support ongoing efforts to ensure that BISD campuses are safe and conducive to learning, we are implementing 68 different initiatives that support student safety. Some of those initiatives are highlighted on the next slide, and all of them can be viewed in the campus safety report that will be posted later this week.

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BISD School Safety Initiatives:• Keep BISD Safe Threat Reporting

• Positive Behavior Interventions & Support

• Behavior Specialists

• Internet Safety

• Character Counts!

• Capturing Kids’ Hearts

• CHAMPS

• Crimestoppers

• Club Belay

• Lift Up!

• Community Health Network (formerly SFA Community Health Network)

• Brazoria County Counseling Center

• No Place for Hate

Safety initiatives include mentoring programs, character education, increased counselling support, anti-bullying and human trafficking programs, and Positive Behavior Intervention & Support. We use restorative practices and the assistance of a behavior team to better support students who need that support, and our district police officers and campus health and safety specialists support increased campus security. We also provide increased mental health support through the Community Health Network and through the Brazoria County Counseling Center. Additionally, secondary school teachers have received ongoing training in Capturing Kids’ Hearts.

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Student Performance in Postsecondary Institutions

The final item in the 2020 Annual Performance Report is the Report of High School Graduates’ Enrollment and Academic Performance in Texas Public Higher Education. In this report, student performance is measured by the Grade Point Average (GPA) earned by 2017-2018 high school graduates who attended public four-year and two-year higher education in Texas during FY 2019. Two years ago, 467 members of the class of 2018, or 55.2%, started a path in higher education in Texas. Of those students, 447 started down that path in Texas two- and four-year institutions. 78.5% of the students who attended a four-year public institution in Texas had a GPA of 2.5 or better. I’ve included the Report of High School Graduates’ Enrollment and Academic Performance in Texas Public Higher Education in tonight’s Board book, and the report will be posted on the district website.

The BISD 2020 Annual Performance Report provides evidence that district initiatives are effective in improving student outcomes. While there remain opportunities for improvement, there can be no doubt that the district is continuing to move in the right direction in our pursuit to provide the highest quality education for our students and to set the standard for educational excellence.

This concludes the public hearing on the 2020 Annual Performance Report.

All of the Annual Performance Report documents can be accessed beginning later this week by clicking on Required Postings on the district website.

Since this is a public hearing, I am happy to answer any clarifying questions from the Board or from the audience.

Questions?