Enrollment & Admissions

• Current enrollment = 229 - We expect to be at 230 by the end of the school year.
  • There was a student that dis-enrolled in February
  • We are looking to add a seat in either grade 6 or grade 7
  • A 7th grade student re-enrolled
• Projections 26/27
  • We continue to project that we will be at 230
    • 46-48 max for grade level
  • 41 students have accepted offers in grade 4
    • 18 offers out still waiting on response
    • Confident that there will be two full advisories 
  • There is still a waitlist for this year and the second lottery
  • All offers are due 4/10/26
  • Currently 146 students that we will retain for the 26/27 SY
    • Rising 5th 46/48 staying
      • 1 student moving to homeschool
      • Another student on the fence about leaving
      • Waitlist = 33 students
    • Rising 6th 45/46 staying
      • 1 undecided family
      • 1 family moving
      • 1 family with siblings at another school
      • waitlist 53 students
    • Rising 7th 28/46 staying
      • 3 are moving to a school with a high school
      • 1 moving out of district
      • 3 transportation issues
      • 10 leaving for social dynamics
      • 1 undecided
      • Waitlist = 13 offers out, 8 waitlist
    • Rising 8th 41/44 staying
      • 1 undecided
      • 1 moving out of district
      • 1 moving to a charter school that has a high school
      • Waitlist = 11 students
    • Overall retention is 84%
      • This is lower than SY 25/26 by 5%

Curriculum Teaching & Learning

• Final round of full cycle observation in process
  • Pre-planning
  • 45 minutes observation
  • Debrief
• Teachers submitting evidence towards goals
• All staff have had formative evaluations
• Summative evaluations to be held at the end of the year
• MCAS
  • ELA testing in process
• HQIM
  • Amplify was onsite observing science classes at each grade-level last week
• TNTP
  • Onsite next week to visit each grade level math
• Instructional leadership team
  • Working on developing SY 26/27 priorities
  • Professional development is being developed SY26/27
    • SB is getting estimates from partners on PD: 
      • TNTP
      • MCPSA
      • Blue Engine - co-teaching PD

30th gala

• 5K in tickets sales already
  • We need more (10K to have the event)
• Can the BoT get 3 tickets sold each?
• This was advertised at exhibition
• We need to sell 125 tickets to make the profit we need to make

End of the year community events

• April - Stress awareness month
  • Wellness team to offer activities/enrichments to relieve stress
• 150+ families joined for the magic show
• 7/8 semi formal
• Student led conferences
• Natures classroom
• DC trip
• 8th grade capstone and luncheon presentations to staff
• Music extravaganza 
• Community meeting for 5-year navigator presentation
• Field day 6/18

Misc.

• Employment meeting going to start
• 2x staff not returning in IA
• Student seminar teacher resigned 
  • 4th grade community service learning
  • 7th extra math and Spanish
• Spring Athletics is off and running!

• We need to be deliberate for targeting what we are fundraising for
  • Establish a routine of fundraising (Natures classroom, DC, etc. )
  • Gala?
  • BoT financial requirement? 
• Target off-setting the cost of trips for all students 
• Lindsay would like to make a small sub-committee to make decisions on how we should target fundraising. 
  • Define focus
  • Database of contacts/donor lists
    • A list used to exist on "green-light" database program

• General feedback - on target at the mid-year review!
  • overall very positive comments 
  • Redact the comment submitted on the mid-year review that stated one of the goals was off-target because the evidence sited was inaccurate.  After discussion and review of the actual data, it was concluded that SB is on-target and we are retracting the off target comment.
• Personnel Committee
  • there was question around if this mid-year results should include submitter name
• 10/13 BoT members responded to the HoS mid-year review
  • It is critical to complete the survey at 100% participations  

• Chris R. Proposed April BoT meeting
  • Would Stephanie be able to share the end of cycle progress report?
    • This is usually completed after the survey results from teachers are compiled.
    • This would need to done in the May BoT meeting
  • Survey results from teachers could be shared at the BoT meeting in April
    • 2-weeks to compile the results from the surveys being distributed on April 8th. 
  • Chris to coordinate this with the personnel committee and finalize timeline
    • Katie to look at last years previous emails to see if there is any guidance that can be shared. 
    • Chris to let Lindsay know what the personnel committee decides

• Surveys going to be sent to the teachers April 8th and close prior to Spring break
  • Val-ed
  • Kanas City 

• We do not anticipate any futher issues

Upcoming

• Vote on budget
  • Please be sure to be at the next BoT meeting
• End of year HoS evaluation

• Keep finding a plug or article that interests you!

• Overall we have a larger board (promotes diversity)
• We cannot be below 9 board members
  • Kim, Lindsay and a possible BoT member rolling off in June
  • Carol will continue for another 3-year term

• We will work with an outside provider again
  • Reached out to Will from last year - He is checking his schedule 
  • Working on finding out costs - Lindsay is going to get a quote
• Alternative to create a sub-committee and do this "in-house"
• Lindsay to report back to the BoT
• No-go dates
  • 6/27-6/28
  • 6/13-6/14
  • 6/19-6/21
• HOLD the date, first weekend in June 6/7-6/8

• Areas to highlight
  • Revenue up 481K from last year
  • Overall net income is down 75K
    • Additional 100K in direct student support 
    • Placement of student out of district 
    • Increased in cost in health insurance 
• Upcoming budget SY 26/27
  • Stephanie met with Jeff today and this is being mapped out
• Next FinCom meeting TBD 
  • Emily scheduling dates with Stephanie and Jeff

• Monthly meeting was held this month
• Making good progress on the handbook 
• Kathy S. met with Robert Carpenter to gather resources related to handbooks
• Next meeting - April 15th 

• Full board participation for the 30th Gala

• Presentation was held by 8th grade student on neurodivergence 
• Join DEI!

• Working on the HoS end-of-cycle evaluation process
• Next meeting - April date TBD