Merrymount Elementary School

SMART Goal # 1: English Language Arts

A. During the 2024-2025 school year, students in Grades K-2 will show evidence of growth in early literacy skills by a 12% increase in Students At or Above Benchmark as measured by the Spring 2024 Amplify mClass DIBELS Assessment. Students in grades 3-5 will continue to maintain their high achievement in Reading. This will be measured by an average of students in grades 3-5 scoring at the 75th percentile or above on the MAP School Profile Report.

B. During the 2024-2025 school year, students in Grades 3-5 will demonstrate an average increased achievement of 2 percentage points in the writing domain, as evidenced by the Spring 2025 MCAS.

Merrymount students partially met our English Language Arts goal. Students showed evidence of growth in early literacy skills as measured by the mCLASS Amplify DIBELS assessment and in fact surpassed the goal for K-2. We are happy to report that the average increase in students At or Above Benchmark was 16% as measured by the Spring 2025 Amplify mClass DIBELS Assessment. Students in Kindergarten increased to 83% of students at or above benchmark, students in Grade 1 increased to 84% of students at or above benchmark, and students in Grade 2 increased to 64% of students at or above benchmark.

Student achievement for grades 3-5 fell just slightly short of the our goal. Students in grades 3-5 continued to maintained high achievement in Reading, however, the average of students in grades 3-5 scored at the 74th percentile or above on the MAP School Profile Report with the target being the 75th percentile or above on the MAP School Profile Report.

Students in all grade levels exceeded national norms on MAP. Students in grades 2, 3, and 5 met or exceeded their projected growth. Grade 2 recorded a growth of 16 RIT points, Grade 3 recorded a growth of 14 RIT points, Grade 4 recorded a growth of 9 RIT points and Grade 5 recorded a growth of 7 RIT points.

Merrymount students will continue to focus on the writing domain this school year as it continues as a needed area of focus as evidenced by the results of Spring 2025 MCAS. We were hoping to see an average increased achievement of 2 percentage points in the Production and Distribution of Writing across grades 3-5 from 2024 to 2025, but we did not meet this part of our ELA goal. Overall, the school average declined from 43% to 36%. Despite a decrease in growth, Merrymount students outperformed the state in this area. Looking at the data from a cohort perspective, there is evidence of growth. YOG 2034 students in Grade 3 recorded a growth of 29% to 32% percentage points, and Grade 5 recorded a growth of 40% to 50% percentage points.

Selected Response questions continue to be an area of strength for Merrymount students, with an average of 67% for Grades 3-5 students and Essay questions being an identified area for continued growth and improvement. Similarly for the English Language Arts domains, Writing is an identified area for continued growth and improvement

SMART Goal # 2: Mathematics: During the 2024-25 school year, students in Grades 2-5 will show evidence of growth in the Mathematics MAP Assessment as measured by an increase of 10 Percentile Achievement points at each grade level from Fall to Spring in Math as measured by MAP.

• Grade 2: Average achievement percentile will increase from 38% (Grade 2 BOY) to 48%

• Grade 3: Average achievement percentile will increase from 37% (Grade 3 BOY) to 47%

• Grade 4: Average achievement percentile will increase from 58% (Grade 4 BOY) to 68%

• Grade 5: Average achievement percentile will increase from 54% (Grade 5 BOY) to 64%

UPDATED FOR 2025 NORMS:

• Grade 2: Average achievement percentile will increase from 45% (Grade 2 BOY) to 55%

• Grade 3: Average achievement percentile will increase from 50% (Grade 3 BOY) to 60%

• Grade 4: Average achievement percentile will increase from 62% (Grade 4 BOY) to 72%

• Grade 5: Average achievement percentile will increase from 61% (Grade 5 BOY) to 71%

We are very proud to report that Merrymount students met our Mathematics goal. Students in Grades 2-5 showed evidence of growth in the Mathematics MAP Assessment as measured by an increase of 10 Percentile Achievement points at each grade level from Fall to Spring in Math as measured by MAP.

SMART Goal # 3: Science: During the 2024-2025 school year, students in grades 4-5 will show evidence of growth in STE as measured by an average increase of 5 RIT points, as indicated in the Spring 2024-25 MAP District Summary Report.

We are very proud to report that Merrymount students met our science goal. Merrymount students met our science goal. Grade 4 recorded a growth of 9 RIT points, and Grade 5 recorded a growth of 10 RIT points. Students in grades 4-5 maintained their high level of achievement in science as measured by the MAP School Profile Report Achievement Percentiles.

SMART Goal # 4: Student Support Goal: During the 2024-2025 school year, Merrymount will continue to promote inclusivity, celebrate differences, and provide opportunities for students to work collaboratively to improve peer relationships. This will be evidenced by the completion of bimonthly Open Parachute lessons and significant progress in completing our action steps.

Merrymount School met our SEL goal. Throughout the year, teachers promoted inclusivity, celebrated differences and provided opportunities for students to work collaboratively to improve peer relationships. Teachers completed bimonthly Open Parachute lessons and we participated in EDI/DEI initiatives, completed bimonthly Open Parachute lessons, and utilized Restorative Practices. After careful review of our action steps, we are happy to report that we made significant progress in completing ten of the eleven action steps. We plan to incorporate many of them in this year’s list of action steps to continue important work started last year.

SMART Goal # 1: English Language Arts: During the 2025-2026 school year, students in grades 2-5 will show evidence of growth in reading as measured by the following increases in RIT points, as indicated in the Spring 2025-26 MAP Student Growth Summary Report: 12 points in grade 2, 9 points in grade 3, 6 points in grade 4, and 4 RIT points in grades 5.

During the 2025-2026 school year, students in grades 3-5 will show evidence of

achievement in ELA as measured by a 2 percentage point increase in meeting and

exceeding expectations achievement levels, indicated in the 2025-26 MCAS Results by

Achievement Levels.

SMART Goal # 2: Mathematics: During the 2025-2026 school year, students in grades 2-5 will show evidence of growth in math as measured by the following increases in RIT points, as indicated in the Spring 2025-26 MAP Student Growth Summary Report: 14 points in grade 2, 15 points in grade 3, 13 points in grade 4, and 10 RIT points in grades 5.

SMART Goal # 3: Science, Technology/Engineering:

During the 2025-2026 school year, students in grades 4-5 will show evidence of growth in STE as measured by the following increases in RIT points, indicated in the Spring 2025-26 MAP Student Summary Report: 8 RIT points in grades 4-5.

SMART Goal # 4: Student Support: During the 2025-2026 school year, we will implement the social-emotional learning program, Kernels, to address equity and trauma and build social skills for learning and life. This will be evidenced by the successful implementation of the program with weekly lessons in classrooms.