Smith reports custodians Melvin and Jaron are now part of our team. We have been making plans with the new custodial and groundskeeping companies. Our RFP process will conclude June 19, and we will be able to open the bids for cafeteria services and select our child nutrition contract for next year. We have seen healthy engagement from our faculty in terms of participation in the renewal of the faculty council under Dr. Hahn’s structure. Teachers also prioritized engaging with the service transition projects.  We had teacher input on all the services that we will be taking on for the 2025-2026 school year.  Jesse and Shaniece worked hard to forward the scheduling process, and they successfully completed sending out the schedules for juniors and seniors.  The SPED team has seen a lot of calibration, and they have some new programs they will be launching next year. Daniel Sharples is continuing to reshape the Friends of TSAS, and he has a lot of exciting ideas as they are focused on growth as well.  This is the first year that TSAS has had a single principal for middle and high school.  Dr. Hahn has been wonderful in creating new structures and instructional support and teacher leadership growth. The counseling department is expanding into a multi-tier level of support for next year.  Next year is a big commemorative year and Daniel Sharples will soon be sharing a year’s worth of events and ways we can celebrate this building, which will be 100 years old, TSAS will be 25, and we will have been in this building for 10 years this year as well. We are also looking forward to a hopeful purchase of this building. Next year I will be developing some goals specifically in addressing literacy and math, along with some other things that I look forward to sharing soon. 

Dr. Hahn reports on the passing of a 2021-2022 alum and has messaged staff, students and the families of the loss. We have offered support to those that may be in need. End-of-year events went well for the year.  High school field day was a success. Graduation.  In terms of academics, by the end of the year, things went well.  Standardized test scores have been delayed for the entire state.  Enrollment for next year is strong. We have all of our seats filled and a waiting list in every grade. This is the first time we’ve done this, but I am reaching out to all incoming families to get an in-person virtual meeting with them to get a sense of what their needs are or what their expectations are and how we can assist students academically, socially and emotionally.  I will be scheduling the session with 6th grade families first. We are fully staffed for the fall and do not have very much turnover for next year. A few of the new hires have already visited to see their rooms and collaborate with their teams.  The next two weeks we will be getting our Summer Symposium ready, starting July 7th.  I will be meeting with our Summer Symposium facilitators, who consist of three TSAS teachers and one TSAS Administrator, to talk about specifics. On July 18th from 9a-noon, teachers will give a summary of their experience participating in the Symposium. The Symposium is a three-pronged experience. The first one is the majority of the Symposium.  It consists of teachers learning more about how to serve students well in the area of literacy at all age levels. The second is to build more strategic planning processes for teaching and learning. It is based on three key points. How to appraise outside tools and resources, the benefit of push-in / pull-out intervention for student academic support and how we will source data used in classrooms. 

Mindy Sutterfield- This is the first time that our team has had to report the annual performance audit for a charter school since the Charter Schools Act, effective July 2024, requiring authorizers to present an annual report in an open board meeting to the authorizers board and each charter school board.  Our team will present individual school annual reports at each charter school board meeting this month and to TPS on June 16, 2025. TSAS operates under one contract and the results of the performance frame are averages of the middle and high school academic scores. Middle school scores are based on NWEA-MAP and high school is based on the performance of the 10th grade Pre-ACT and 11th grade state-administered ACT.  TSAS received a Tier 1 academic rating and overall has received a Tier 2 rating in 2023-2024. Consistent Tier 2 ratings will likely result in a 3-4 year renewal recommendation. TSAS met all targets for growth, but did not meet the target in Math proficiency for subpopulations, which are the students on IEP and/or English learners. Performance on five out of eight measures exceeded the target compared to the 2022-2023 report. ELA growth and math proficiency remain the same, receiving full points. Math growth fell from 40.18% to 34.76%. In previous years, subpopulation scores for both growth and proficiency lacked enough students to produce a score. In the 2023-2024 school year, we had sufficient students tested and showed both ELA growth and math proficiency had exceeded the target, meeting expectations. TSAS had the highest overall re-enrollment percentage in performance from 2023-2024. TSAS did not meet the goal of the school parent survey, but did meet the mission-specific measure goal. For high school students, goals and targets are set the same way, but using the results of the Pre-ACT and ACT. TSAS succeeded all ACT growth and proficiency targets. The four-year graduation rate was lower than normal at 67% and was 92% the year before. TSAS met the goal for the high school mission-specific measure at 90% of students completed their capstone. TSAS’ financial performance is improving, and the current fund balance is 16.44%.  TSAS also met the goal in terms of financial audit and enrollment stability. Meeting the standard in oversight capacity illustrates that the board is doing their job by ensuring appropriate financial controls are in place and regularly examining the school budget.  TSAS performed well in all measures of the organizational report. 

Dr. Smith - Page 2 of the financial report.  You’ll recall that at the start of the year we had a $95,000 carryover and our budget projected a negative $300,000.  The budget now shows a positive of $72,000, but is actually near $104,000. We will still have some expenses in June, but we are anticipating a carryover higher than what we ended in the 2023-2024 school year.  Our financial year-end is June 30th, but I believe we are on an upward trajectory.

Discussion was tabled for the next meeting.