Michelle May, the district’s director of school improvement, presented Arizona’s A–F accountability framework and the district’s 2025 letter grades.

May explained the framework components (50% student growth, 30% proficiency, 10% English-language indicators, 10% acceleration readiness) and noted schools can earn up to five bonus points through special-education comparisons and science proficiency. She highlighted district trends by school: Blue Horizons and Liberty Elementary exited ADE targeted-school-improvement status, Las Brisas Academy increased to an A, and multiple campuses earned maximum accelerated-readiness points.

Board members praised administrators and principals for improvements and asked technical questions about subgroup calculations and how accelerated-readiness indicators are computed. May said principals and central office teams will use the data to refine goals and instructional priorities in coming months.

Board members asked staff to continue linking the ADE indicators to campus goals and to present outcomes relative to prior goals at future meetings.