Turlock Unified School District’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday received information regarding recent data from the California Department of Education’s Dashboard website, which shows schools’ achievement ratings achievement ratings in several key categories. While TUSD schools improved their scores in many of these sections, many campuses are still struggling to meet state standards overall.
The Dashboard site displays statewide data based on status (how each school or district performed) and change (how much they have improved since the last year), with performance levels indicated by color ranging from red as the lowest and blue as the highest.
Eight of TUSD’s nine elementary schools failed to meet state standards for both English Language Arts and Mathematics; however, six of those eight schools improved upon their scores from the previous year. Walnut Elementary Education Center was the sole campus to exceed state standards for both subjects, while Cunningham Elementary School was the most improved by increasing English scores by 15 points and Math by 17.9 points.
Dashboard’s chronic absenteeism metric counts the percent of the school’s students who missed at least 10 percent of the school year. Five of the nine schools were able to improve upon this statistic and four saw their number of chronically absent students increase. Walnut Elementary School is the only campus in the “blue,” with just 1.9 percent of students chronically absent. In addition, every school except for Medeiros Elementary School improved their campus suspension rate.
Both Dutcher Middle School and Turlock Junior High School failed to meet state standards for English and Math; DMS received lower scores in both subjects this year and TJHS maintained its English scores while increasing its Math scores.
Turlock High School and Pitman High School continue to exceed the state English standards, but both declined in the subject by over 10 points. Both schools still struggle to meet Math standards and both declined in scores yet again this year.
Due to the low performance of TUSD’s Foster Youth student group in the areas of graduation rate (red) and suspension (red) as well as its Homeless student group in the areas of chronic absenteeism (red) and suspension (red), TUSD was identified for Level 2 Support Differentiated Assistance from the state. TUSD was also identified for this assistance last year, but with the additional group of Students with Disabilities.
“The goal is to help the District and their schools meet the needs of the students that they serve to address disparities in opportunities and outcomes,” TUSD Director of English Learners, Assessment and Special Programs Alice Solis said.
To view each school’s report in its entirety, visit www.caschooldashboard.org.
Crowell Elementary School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Orange
56.5 points below standard; Maintained by 2.8 points
Mathematics — Yellow
79.7 points below standard; Improved by 3 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Orange
15.8 percent chronically absent; Increased by 3 percent
Cunningham Elementary School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
43.9 points below standard; Improved by 12.8 points
Mathematics — Yellow
48.8 points below standard; Improved by 16.5 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Yellow
11.6 percent chronically absent; Declined by 2.5 percent
Dennis G. Earl Elementary School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
16.4 points below standard; Improved by 12.2 points
Mathematics — Yellow
46.9 points below standard; Improved by 4.2 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Green
7.1 percent chronically absent; Declined 0.6 percent
Julien Elementary School
(Gifted and Talented Education Program location/ Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
6.4 points below standard; Improved by 8.5 points
Mathematics — Yellow
31.5 points below standard; Improved by 3.5 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Green
8 percent chronically absent; Declined 0.6 percent
Osborn Two-Way Immersion Academy
(Dual language immersion magnet school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
39.7 points below standard; Improved by 9.1 points
Mathematics —Yellow
39.4 points below standard; Improved by 8.1 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Yellow
3.5 percent chronically absent; Increased by 1.3 percent
Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Orange
6.4 points below standard; Maintained by 1 point
Mathematics — Green
13 points below standard; Improved by 6.3 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Green
7.8 percent chronically absent; Increased 1.7 percent
Wakefield Elementary School
(Dual language immersion magnet school/Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Red
72.7 points below standard; Maintained by -2.6 points
Mathematics — Orange
91.3 points below standard; Maintained by 0.8 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Yellow
11.2 percent chronically absent; Declined 5 percent
Walnut Elementary School
(Science and Arts magnet school)
English Language Arts — Green
29.5 points above standard; Improved by 6.1 points
Mathematics — Green
10.5 points above standard; Improved by 4.4 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Blue
1.9 percent chronically absent; Declined 0.5 percent
Walter M. Brown Elementary School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Orange
48.3 points below standard; Improved by 13.4 points
Mathematics — Yellow
71.4 points below standard; Improved by 9.2 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Orange
11.3 percent chronically absent; Increased 2.9 percent
Turlock Junior High School
(Citywide school)
English Language Arts — Orange
8.3 points below standard; Maintained by 2.2 points
Mathematics — Yellow
48.1 points below standard; Improved by 12.2 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Yellow
12.2 percent chronically absent; Declined 2.2 percent
Marvin A. Dutcher Middle School
(Dual language immersion magnet/Performing Arts magnet
English Language Arts — Orange
12.6 points below standard; Declined 9.5 points
Mathematics — Orange
63.6 points below standard; Declined 12 points
Chronic Absenteeism — Yellow
8.4 percent chronically absent; Maintained by 0 percent
Turlock High School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
24.8 points above standard; Declined 15.6 points
Mathematics — Orange
73.5 points below standard; Declined 10.6 points
Graduation Rate — Green
93.6 percent graduated; Maintained -0.6 percent
Pitman High School
(Neighborhood school)
English Language Arts — Yellow
27.1 points above standard; Declined 12.3 points
Mathematics — Orange
73 points below standard; Declined 15 points
Graduation Rate — Yellow
94.8 percent; Declined 1.5 percent
