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WELLSVILLE -- Wellsville Local School District Superintendent Kyle Exline and Allison Scott, director of curriculum, updated board members on the state report card and said they have a strategic development plan in place to address the scores.
Exline said the update was to provide board members of the scope as to where the district is at and what was accomplished. The district had an overall grade of three stars, indicating they meet state standards.
Exline said there was a tremendous improvement overall across the entire district with significant gains shown across the board, notably in progress, literacy, graduation and college, career workforce and military readiness (CCWMR). He noted there has been progress in other areas as well, such gap closing, at each building.
"It's important to celebrate this progress, but also what we have to acknowledge is that there is more work to be done," Exline said.
Exline was excited to commend Garfield Elementary Principal Shelbie Householder on Garfield's increase from one star last year to four and a half stars this year. He said that was a tremendous improvement and it was done by Householder exhibiting a lot of hard work and dedication, and her being passionate along with her team. Garfield showed improvement in gap closing and early literacy.
Daw Elementary moved up to three and a half stars with improvements in achievement, progress and gap closing.
Exline said what is unique about Daw's improvement in achievement is that the students are growing. He said sometimes you can have achievement without growth or growth with achievement and he noted that is a credit to Principal Erin Clemmer and her team.
The jr. sr. high school saw improvements in graduation and CCWMR under the guidance of Scott in her former role as principal. The high school had an overall score of two and a half stars.
"This report card tells us where we are, and tonight we are going to try to tell you with the strategic plan where we are heading and analyze our goals and initiatives," Exline said.
Scott said the performance index for which the district is 100% and that is how they get their rating.
Scott said that progress overall for the district is at three stars and it is a cumulative measure over the last three years, with last year weighing 50% and the two years prior at 25% each, showing the big picture of what has been going on for the last three years.
The district is seeing really strong alignment in all grades in English Language Arts, Scott said. She noted that with Mathematics the district is falling short of expectations and that has been the same for the past three years. She said there is a section of the strategic plan that outlines how the district plans to address math specifically and it will be different from the way the district is supporting language arts.
The district scored two stars in gap closing. Scott said gap closing is a combination of three measures: achievement, growth and chronic absenteeism. Garfield scored four stars, Daw scored three stars and the jr. sr. high scored one star.
Scott said as far as graduation, the district came very close to getting two out three points, and they got the point for economic disadvantage, but they were off by about one percent for getting the point for all students.
During the 2025-2026 school year 25.8% of students were chronically absent and they had a goal of 14.5%, but the district was able to get some points in that category because they showed a 6.5% decrease in chronic absenteeism.
The district doesn't get a rating for gifted students because they do not have the minimum number of 15 students identified as gifted.
For graduation with the four-year graduation rate and five-year graduation rate combined, the district received three stars with a combined 91.5%. Scott noted the district is trending in this category and is only two percent away from receiving four stars, which has a threshold of 93.5%.
Scott said early literacy is a heavy component that falls primarily on Daw and Garfield elementary schools with a lot of that falling on the third grade reading guarantee and the fourth-grade promotion, and there has been a change in how that was reported. Previously, 100% of the fourth-grade students could be counted but now it relies solely on the meeting of state test score requirements. The reporting change changed the district's percentage from 100% to 64.8% with that number factoring into the early literacy component, but the district is only two and a half percentage points away from reaching three starts in this category with an early literacy score of 58.2% and the cutoff for three stars being 61%.
The district received two stars overall in early literacy with Garfield receiving four stars as a building and Daw receiving two stars.
Scott said that CCWMR showed a huge gain from last year to this current year with 74.1%, which is an increase of 22.8% percentage points which brought this category from one star last year to three stars this year.
"Getting this to three stars is tremendous," Scott said.
Scott attributed the increase to the work done by Beth Swogger, guidance counselor, and Nicole Camiletti, teacher at the Jr. Sr. High School. She also noted the district is 0.9% away from being four stars in this area, which has a cutoff of 75% to make four stars.
"There are big goals for next year," Scott said. "Knowing how close we were based on some of these indicators just kind of lights your fire a little more because we can get four stars and our average would go up."
Scott said if they can bring up the areas where they just missed by a few percentage points than next year, the district could very possibly get a four-star overall report card rating.