Nash Central High School
2025-2026
Presented By: Dr. Jonathan Tribula
Date: October 14, 2025
�School Improvement Team Members
Team members were elected on: August 7, 2025
Team Members: Dr. Jonathan Tribula (P), Michael Crosby (AP), Danielle Jones (AP), Tracy Spence (AP), Dr. Tabatha McDowell (CDC), Chase Clary (T), Nathan Joyner (T), Tiffany Jenkins (T), John Wozniak (T), Amber Perry (T), Carther Jorgensen (T), Kelly Scott (T), Nickie Rich (C), Heather Thompson (P)
Vision and Mission
Vision
The Nash Central High School faculty and staff will provide rigorous and relevant instruction so that all students will graduate from a 21st Century learning environment prepared for globally competitive, college, career, and life ready goals!
Mission
Nurture, respect, and promote diversity while Creating positive and productive relationships within the school and surrounding community. Setting High expectations for student achievement by Serving students as they strive to become college and career ready.
Current School Profile
Data Analysis –Academic Performance
Math 1 - Grown 40 points over last four years and 27 points over the last two years. Highest proficiency in the district two years in a row. Strengths are our vertical alignment between Foundations of Math and Math 1, as well as having two of our best teachers teaching Math 1.
Math 3 - Grown 51 points over last four years and 26 points over the last two years. Second in district the past two years and highest tested subject at NCHS. Strength include holding promotion standards and ensuring vertical alignment across the whole math department.
Data Analysis –Academic Performance
English 2 - Grown 33 points over the last four years and 26 points over the last two years. Highest proficiency in district this past year. Strengths include strong PLC team, vertical alignment between English 1 and English 2 teachers, and targeted test preparations for students.
Biology - It is difficult to compare Biology results because of new standards and new EOC. However, this remains an area for growth as we continue aligning instruction with the new curriculum and raising expectations for teaching and learning.
Data Analysis –Academic Performance
All EOCs - Grown 44 points in the past four years and 30 points over the past two years. Highest in the district among traditional schools two years in a row. Strengths include schoolwide improvement including strategic scheduling, focus on core (Tier 1) instruction, holding promotion standards, growing school culture, and consistent discipline standards using the district’s matrix.
ACT/WorkKeys - 12 point growth this past year, mostly due to the incentives we offered for earning a Silver or higher on WorkKeys test.
Data Analysis –Academic Performance
EVAAS - 8.82 index growth, highest in the district among all schools and top 2% in the state. Top 1% in state among the subgroups of Black and Economically Disadvantaged (EDS). Top 10% in the state among the subgroup of White. Top 15% in the state among the subgroup of Students With Disabilities (SWD).
�Goal 1
By the end of the 2025–2026 school year, Biology proficiency at Nash Central High School will increase from 29.6% to at least 45%, as measured by the North Carolina Biology EOC, through targeted instructional support and curriculum alignment to new standards.
Goal 1 – Strategies
The school will implement bridge courses to give students who are predicted by EVAAS to not pass the EOC a yearlong opportunity to master the new Biology standards.
Teachers will conduct quarterly benchmark checks with district science specialists for alignment.�
Administrators will conduct twice-monthly PLC data reviews focused on item analysis and reteaching strategies in the spring when Biology classes are being taught.
Principal will move Biology courses to the spring semester to give Biology teachers time in the Fall to work with new standards on lesson planning and formative assessments.�
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Goal 1-Progress Monitoring Plan �How we will measure for Progress?
Use the data tracking tool provided by Dr. Mudd for Biology classes.
Conduct weekly walkthroughs to monitor lesson planning, classroom instruction, and student learning in Biology classes.
Create two-three intensive support sessions with district coach Mrs. Richardson with our Biology teachers, one in the fall and two in the spring.
�Goal 2
By the end of the 2025–2026 school year, the percentage of students meeting College and Career Readiness benchmarks on the ACT (17) or achieving Silver level or higher on WorkKeys will increase from 48.6% to 55%
Goal 2 – Strategies
Counselors will schedule all students who did not score a 17 or higher on the ACT to be CTE completers, ensuring they are eligible to take the WorkKeys assessment.
School Improvement Team will develop four to six lesson plans to review the three sections of the WorkKeys test: Applied Math, Graphic Literacy, and Workplace Documents. These lessons will be delivered to students enrolled in English IV during the spring semester.
WorkKeys assessment will be administered over three days, with one section given per day. This schedule will prevent interruptions to class instruction and help students remain focused and refreshed for each portion of the test.
Incentives, such as a bowling trip, catered lunch, and extra graduation tickets, will be offered to students who achieve either a 17 or higher on the ACT or a Silver level or higher on the WorkKeys assessment.
Goal 2-Progress Monitoring Plan �How we will measure for Progress?
Verify CTE completer enrollment lists with counselors in Infinite Campus each semester.
Conduct monthly implementation checks through English IV lesson observations and walkthroughs.
Create a testing schedule reviewed and approved by the School Testing Coordinator and Principal.
Monitor daily test participation rates and resolve any absences or make-up testing needs immediately.
Track student results from ACT and WorkKeys using state testing reports.
Generate a reward eligibility list for students achieving either an ACT score of 17 or higher, or a Silver level or higher on WorkKeys.
�Goal 3
By the end of the 2025–2026 school year, 100% of students at Nash Central High School will complete or update an individual Career Development Plan that aligns their high school course selections with their identified career interests and post-secondary goals — using NC Careers for 9th and 10th graders and SchooLinks for 11th and 12th graders.
Goal 3 – Strategies
The school will create a team consisting of an administrator, counselor, CDC coordinator, two core teachers, and two CTE teachers.
The team will attend training provided by the district’s CTE department.
The team will create a yearlong plan that establishes monthly goals for students to complete their Career Development Plan.
The team will create a monitoring plan to ensure that every student at NCHS completes their Career Development Plan.
Goal 3-Progress Monitoring Plan �How we will measure for Progress?
Ensure schoolwide team is created.
Meet with team every other month to make adjustments to plan and follow up on implementation fidelity.
Track progress of student completion on their Career Development Plan.
Conduct one-on-one meetings with each student and counselor during registration process to ensure class registration lines up with each student’s Career Development Plan.
Family Engagement Plan
Professional Development Plan