#1A - Academic Performance

Increase student proficiency in ELA / Math by

10% across grades, LEAs, and subgroups

on CAASPP

Current data appears to point to strong performance in the majority of grades levels/content areas this year based on our last January/February Interim Assessment round 4.

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• Charter Renewal Tiers published in March: Each year, sometime between December and March, we should anticipate receiving our official renewal tiers from CDE (even though our renewals are not for the upcoming fall, but rather fall of 25, 26, and 27 for Lodestar, LH K8, and LH 9-12 respectively). As I shared over email, all three of our charters fell under the "middle tier," which is a 5 year renewal eligibility. You can read more about it here. Our interim assessment data shared last month projects stronger growth, which should yield comparable data when we take our end of year assessments in May.

• June Board meeting: We hope to get some of our state assessment data back in June.

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#1B - Academic - Performance

Maintain College and Career (CCI) performance

at Lighthouse and Lodestar High School

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Our current high school programming is such that the significant majority of our students are College and Career Index ready, which means that they are A-G and either have passing CAASSP exams in 11th grade, have 6+ college course credits, and/or completed a CTE Sequence:

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• Lodestar Charter Renewal: We are on pace to graduate our first class of seniors, and they are trending above state CCI averages, which will be favorable to the charter renewal case in 2025.

• College Acceptances are rolling in but the FAFSA process has been challenging: This is now on high alert, hence, we moved from green to yellow - As you may know from national coverage of the Federal financial aid process, the new FAFSA forms have had many errors, resulting in many students not receiving their financial aid packages or their forms being delayed or in limbo due to processing errors. This will most likely impact some of our seniors’ decisions (up to ~40%), and we are monitoring this closely.

#2A - Attendance

Increase Attendance rate to 94%

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This is an ambitious goal, even though 94% attendance was common pre-pandemic

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• 90.8% attendance overall: No change over the last month.

• Our biggest gaps - High Schools and Lodestar Elementary: Attendance has been most challenging at these sites, and we have increased our student and family follow-up.

• Middle School Attendance is our bright spot with both Lodestar averaging 92.7% and Lighthouse at 92.3%

• We are partnering on a state grant to address Chronic Absenteeism with Oakland Natives Give Back, as they have led efforts for select OUSD schools.

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#2B - Chronic Absenteeism

Decrease Chronic Absenteeism to 24%

(Last year - 33.4%)

We look at two key metrics -

• “Chronic Absence rate” (on track to missing 10% of days)
• “Absence Rate” (percentage of student with 18+ absences).

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Chronic Absence Rate

Absence Rate

LCPS

31.4% (30.8% in Feb)

21.4% (12.8% in Feb)

Lighthouse Elementary

31.9% (29.7% in Feb)

20.4% (11.1% in Feb)

Lighthouse Middle

21.9% (21.9% in Feb)

15.3% (7% in Feb)

Lighthouse High

29.8% (30.6% in Feb

21.9% (14.6% in Feb)

Lodestar Elementary

36.3 (35.4% in Feb)

27.7% (19% in Feb

Lodestar Middle

25.8% (26.7% in Feb)

13.6% (7.8% in Feb)

Lodestar High

42.2 (40.1% in Feb)

26.6% (15.3% in Feb)

#3 - Financial Health and Sustainablity

Revenue and Expenses Projections;

70 Days Cash at EOY; Board Covenants Met

In January, the Governor’s announcement of a flat .76% COLA increase. However, latest updates put the COLA at 0% and we have adjusted our budget accordingly. While it will be a learn year, we are on pace for the three key items below:

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• Revenue and Expenses: At end of February, we are budget vs. actual were spot on. Please see the latest finance report for more details on our budget to actual report

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• We are at 83 Days Cash today, and projected to be at 79 days at end of year: Note - our daily cash rate is ~98K. Total cash available is $8.15M.

• All Board Covenants Met: We are at a debt coverage ratio of 1.65 (board covenant at 1.1)

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#4 - Staff Retention

85% Staff Retention of staff

LCPS wishes to retain

Update on our Intent to Return Process for Teachers & Leaders. We are at ~80% projected teacher retention & ~70-75% leader retention.

• Projected Teacher Retention to date: ~80% (6% still undecided)
• Lighthouse K-5: 89%
• Lighthouse 6-12: 68%
• Lodestar K-5: 72%
• Lodestar 6-12: 90%
• Leadership Retention is lower & remains more uncertain:
• 2 Upper School principal hiring processes underway
• Project 4-6 frontline managers (APs, Program & Clinical Specialists) will move out of their roles
• Shared services and non-P/AP/SPED leadership roles are nearly all returning
• Group 3: Grant-funded and one-time-funded roles (Teachers in Training, In-Building Subs, and other roles that are grant or one-time funding dependent where the grant is not yet secured or is sunsetting) remain unissued until/if funding can be verified.