School Strategic Plan & SMART Goals

Goal 1: Academic Excellence

Students will perform at or above level or make more than one year's growth in Reading and Mathematics. BCS will eliminate opportunity gaps and recover learning through support school-wide systems.

SMART Goals

  1. Spring Mills High School will increase the student proficiency level for our 11th grade students to the following (as measured by the Spring 2026 SAT School Day test): 68.75% of students will meet or exceed the benchmark in English Language Arts 40.00% of students will meet or exceed the benchmark in Mathematics.

  2. Greater than 85% of 9th and 10th grade students will earn at least six or more credits.

  3. Spring Mills High School will meet at least a 95% graduation rate.

  4. 50% of English Learners at school will increase from Emerging to Progressing as defined by the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) during the 2025-2026 school year 20% of English Learners at school will increase from Progressing to Proficient as defined by the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) during the 2025-2026 school year.

Strategy 1 - Academic Excellence: ELA & Math Improvement

  • Administer the common formative assessments in IXL to all 9th - 11th grade students in English and Math every nine weeks

  • PLC collaboration for math and science, English and history departments Teaching strategies including TPT (Total Participation Techniques), APL, and collaboration Professional development focused on the above-mentioned teaching strategies

  • Use of literacy effort to provide consistency in all disciplines to teach appropriate study skills

  • Use of Cardinals Connect time to tutor students who are struggling (particularly in ELA and math).

Action Steps

  1. Schedule common formative assessments every 9 weeks for ELA/Math

  2. Provide time in data team meetings to collaborate and plan common formative assessments and share best practices

  3. Provide regular opportunities for coaching/sharing of best practices and professional development

  4. New teacher cohort to provide information, knowledge, and support to ensure student success.

Strategy 2 - Academic Excellence: On Track to Graduation

  • Tutoring during Cardinals Connect (peer and teacher)

  • After school tutoring

  • RESET

  • PAALs

  • Teacher intervention

  • Analysis of precipitating factors that cause students to not be successful

  • Project Aware and other community resources if mental health is a concern in addition to academic concerns

  • Leadership class mentoring of struggling students

  • National Honor Society and Math Club tutoring.

Action Steps

  1. We have weekly tutoring sessions schedule with all teachers. Additionally, National Honor Society students offer peer tutoring.

  2. Identification of students needing academic support at weekly SAT meetings.

  3. Administrative conferences with counselors concerning students needing academic support.

Strategy 3 - Academic Excellence: Graduation Rate

  • Analyze attendance and academic progress data of students in the senior class.

  • Begin analysis of grades 9, 10, and 11 to determine students who are at-risk for not graduating.

  • Utilize Intellispark and Zoom as well as WVEIS to identify struggling students.

Action Steps

  1. Support students through the school student assistance team, attendance officer intervention, Community in Schools social worker, school counselor, home visits, and communication with parents.

  2. Utilize Cardinals Connect and after school tutoring to encourage student success and attendance at school.

  3. Utilize National Honor Society students for mentoring/peer tutoring students struggling academically or with attendance.

  4. Jostens Renaissance program.

Strategy 4 - Academic Excellence: English Language Learners

  • Analyze ELPA test score data

  • Professional Development Training

  • Work with EL teacher to analyze and plan for student success.

Action Steps

  1. Create/modify program for individual students to ensure their success as English Learners.

  2. Monitor student progress and encourage attendance at Cardinals Connect - District-wide staff development will continue in 2025-2026.

Goal 2: Health and Well-Being

All Berkeley County Schools will create and maintain safe learning environments that promote excellent academic achievement. BCS will nurture all students’ intellectual, physical, mental, and social-emotional growth with specific emphasis on recovering from complex trauma.

SMART Goals

  1. Spring Mills High School will increase the attendance rate of chronically absent students by 1% annually, resulting in a decrease in truancy for 2025- 2025

  2. Less than 5% of our students will receive an out-of-school suspension during the 2025-2026 school year.

Strategy 1 - Health and Well-Being: Attendance

  • Analyze attendance data to determine students with chronic negative attendance (5 or more days)

  • Identify data to determine students who fail to attend school on Mondays and Fridays

Action Steps

  1. SAT committee will identify and create action steps for specific students who are chronically absent (5 days or more).

  2. Assistant principals responsible for attendance will create strategies to encourage regular attendance of their assigned students.

  3. Attendance officer, Communities In Schools (CIS) worker, counselors, and administration will make regular home visits to meet with parents to determine reasons for failure to attend school regularly.

  4. Pair students with an in-school staff member for regular check-ins.

  5. Attendance group for Cardinals Connect lunch time.

Strategy 2 - Health and Well-Being: Reducing Out-of-School Suspensions

  • Analyze student behavior management data, looking for obstacles/opportunities to encourage positive student behavior.

  • Analyze current behavior management interventions and determine their effectiveness.

Action Steps

  1. Utilize opportunities for alternative behavior management to decrease out-of-school suspensions.

  2. Utilize regular Cardinals Connect tutoring

  3. Use restorative practices to encourage positive behavior interventions (NEST) Utilize counselors in administrative meetings with parents to reduce the number of out-of-school suspensions.

  4. Utilization of drug court/Catalyst referrals for students with substance abuse issues.

  5. Utilization of Project Aware counseling services for students with mental health issues.

Goal 3: Operational Excellence

Efficient and effective operations will allow BCS to maintain its focus on student learning.  BCS will strengthen and improve system-wide operations through federal, state and local financial resources to meet the needs of the district’s growing and changing community.

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