Sun Prairie Area School District Superintendent Brad Saron and district administrators presented the Student Results Policy 2 monitoring report for the 2024–25 school year, reporting that the district met or exceeded the board’s progress thresholds on 10 of 12 board expectations while noting concerns about attendance and high-school grade proficiency.
"These came from, expectations from the community," Superintendent Brad Saron said, explaining the origins of the board’s student results policies and the subsequent monitoring reports. Dr. Stephanie Leonard, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning and Equity, summarized the district's overall judgment: "Considering the preponderance of the evidence, the superintendent judges that the school district is making reasonable progress with exceptions noted."
The monitoring framework breaks SR2 into 12 board expectations and uses a progress-descriptor key to label results as reasonable progress, progress with exceptions noted, or failure to make reasonable progress. Dr. Kurt Mould described the descriptor key and said the measures were chosen when possible to align with recognized research and to balance rigor and attainability.
On core academic indicators, Rick Miller reported that eighth-grade reading showed 78% achievement and 88% growth, and that tenth-grade pre-ACT math showed 32% achievement with 12% of students demonstrating growth. "For example, eighth grade reading shows 78% achievement with 88% growth," Miller said, and the district concluded these indicators meet the descriptor thresholds for reasonable progress.
Administrators flagged attendance and high-school grade proficiency as exception areas. "With an overall attendance rate of 79%, the district shows improvement, but remains just below the board's established target of 80%," Sarah Chia Clardy said; the presentation therefore rated attendance as "reasonable progress with exceptions noted." High-school grade proficiency by department (English language arts, math, science and social studies) was judged a failure to make reasonable progress, with proficiency rates reported in a range between about 64% and 89% depending on department and measure.
Other indicators were stronger: high-school credit attainment across core content areas showed results in the mid-90s (about 94%–96% across subjects), and the district’s graduation rate remained at 95%, exceeding expectations.
For 2025–26 the district proposed multiple strategic actions to address the exception and failure areas: implement grade-level essential standards in literacy and math, monitor and revise attendance processes biannually, provide training across the district on elements of the instructional framework (rigorous and coherent teaching, culture of care, disrupting inequity, plus multiple means to demonstrate understanding, learning partnerships and culturally responsive practices), adopt I-Ready at middle school and Math Nation at the high school for math instruction, and develop a coherent new ELA curriculum for grades 9–11.
The presentation noted historical approvals and procedures: the revised student results policies were approved by the board on 04/10/2023, and monitoring reports were presented under board procedure 10 and previously judged reasonable on 03/11/2024. The SR2 monitoring report and the progress-descriptor key are available as attachments to the board materials.
The district presentation concluded with Superintendent Saron thanking teachers, special education assistants, instructional assistants and staff across the district’s 15 campuses; the transcript does not specify the meeting date.