School Goals

2025-2025 Instructional Focus & CEP Goals

INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS

Students will engage in high-quality interactive discussions based upon deeper insightful analysis of relevant and concise text-based details and exemplified by responses to peers’ questioning and extensions of peers’ thoughts, thereby improving standards-based performance in evidence-based student writing and oral responses in all content areas.

 PRIORITY FOCUS

Strengthening the Instructional Core with a focus on students’ ability to comprehend informational texts through Explicit Instruction, specifically, providing guided and supported practice with immediate affirmative and corrective feedback, to ensure underperforming subgroups, in particular, Students with Disabilities and students in the ENL subgroup, receive differentiated, data-based instruction aligned with their specific learning needs and styles.

COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION PLAN (CEP) GOALS

Priority 1: All students learn to read well

• By June 2026, literacy for All Students will improve, as measured by a 6% increase, from 70% to 76%, of percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency on the iReady Reading Diagnostic.
• By June 2026, literacy for Students with Disabilities (SWD) will improve, as measured by an 8% increase, from 27% to 35%, of percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency on the comprehension of informational text domain of the iReady Reading Diagnostic. 

Priority 2: All students are physically and emotionally safe

• By June, 2026, physical and mental wellness for all students will improve, as measured by a 17% decrease in percent of reported incidents occurring within classrooms, from 47% to 30%, as measured by Online Occurrence Reporting System (OORs) Data.

Priority 3: All students have a high-quality academic experience

• By June 2026, the percentage of All Students scoring on or above grade-level will increase by 9% from 73% to 82%, as measured by iReady Math results.
• By June 2026, the percentage of Students with Disabilities scoring on or above grade-level will increase by 10% from 26% to 36%, as measured by iReady Math results.

Priority 4: All students graduate college and career ready and have a strong plan and pathway to economic security

• By June 2026, the percentage of 8th grade Hispanic students receiving Regents credit for the Life Science: Biology Regents will increase by 7% from 68% to 75%. 
• By June 2026, the percentage of 8th grade Hispanic students receiving Regents credit will increase by 8%, from 77% to 85%, as measured by NYS US History & Government Regents Exam scores.
• By June 2026, the percentage of all students participating in Project Soapbox will increase by 15% from 35% to 50% as measured by participation in Project Soapbox.

Priority 5: All districts and schools are more inclusive and responsive for parents and families, including having more families choose NYC Public Schools

• By June 2026, the percentage of families responding favorably to the question, “Since the beginning of the school year, how often have you communicated with your child’s teachers about your child’s performance?” will increase by 8% from 84% to 92% as measured by NYC School Survey.