2025 Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness Report
CACR Report
Goal Area 1
Goal Area 1: All students ready for school
Students enrolled in PreK 3 and PreK 4 will show growth in all assessed areas as measured by TS GOLD assessments given in the Fall of 2024 and Spring of 2025.
- PreK 3 and PreK 4 teachers met weekly for PLCs to discuss data and inform instruction
- LETRS for Early Childhood professional development as part of the READ Act professional development requirement.
Results from 2024-2025: Goal Met
Goal Area 2
Goal Area 2: Close the achievement gap among all groups
The achievement gap in Columbia Heights Public Schools will decrease by 5% from the Spring 2024 to the Spring 2025 school year as measured by the FastBridge Reading Proficiency in grades K-10.
Strategies:
- Instructional Coaches
- District-wide PLCs
- READ Act professional development
- OL & LA: K-5 classroom teachers, K-12 SpEd Teachers, K-12 EL Teachers
- LETRS for EC: PreK teachers including ECSE
- Continued Functional Phonics
- New curriculum for grades 3-5
- Professional Development around new standards for grades 6-12 ELA teachers
Results and Response: Goal Not Met for all demographic groups
Goal Area 3
Goal Area 3: All students achieving college and career readiness before graduating from high school
Increase the number of students in grades 10-12 taking college level courses (AP, Early College, PSEO) and career courses (CTE), and/or AVID by 5% from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025.
Strategies:
- Increase number of opportunities (classes and frequency)
- PLTW and AP Computer Science courses
- Increased Introduction to Education pathway courses
- AVID and College Support Classes
- Continued focus on seeking opportunities to partner with businesses and industry
- College and Career Fairs in 6-12 and for families in the evening
Results and Response: Goal Not Met
Goal Area 4
Goal Area 4: All students graduating from high school
Maintain or increase the graduation rate from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025, for every race/ethnicity.
Strategies:
- Increase family partnerships to support student success
- PLCs
- Data monitoring by admin
- Academic Tutoring and Support
- Professional Development around instruction and culturally relevant instruction
Results from 2024-2025: The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has not yet released the 2025 Graduation Rates. The graduation rate for Columbia Heights High School in 2024 was 88.3%, which is a decrease from the 2023 graduation rate of 92.1%. The overall graduation rate for Minnesota in 2024 was 84.2%.
Goal Area 5
Goal Area 5: Prepare students to be lifelong learners
Students will have an opportunity to connect their learning to real-world experiences at least 3 times a year in the 2024-2025 school year.
Opportunities could include, but are not limited to, experiences with community members, businesses, older students, guest speakers or field trips, career exploration and career surveys.
Strategies:
- PreK-5th Grade Field Trip Alignment
- Career and College Fair 6-12
- Intro to Education pathway internship
- High school students supporting elementary students
- Guest speakers
Results from 2024-2025: Schools provided a list of general opportunities. Data was not tracked per student as mentioned in the goal.
Achievement and Integration
Goal Area 1
Goal 1: Increase the college and career readiness for Hispanic students from 42% participating in early college classes to 51% participating in 2026 in order to match overall high school demographics.
- Achievement Goal
- Baseline:
- Early College: 19%
- 2024: 42%
- 2025: 47%
- 2026: 51%
Results and Response: Goal met. 67%
- Hispanic students continue to increase their participation in college readiness classes.
Goal Area 2
Goal 2: To maintain CHPS students' access to teachers trained in culturally relevant and effective instruction at 100% for three years by strengthening equity teams, participation in PD.
- Integration Goal
- Baseline:
- 2024: 100%
- 2025: 100%
- 2026: 100%
Results and Response: Goal met. 100%.
- All Licensed teachers participated in culturally relevant training and effective instructions.
Goal Area 3
Goal 3: Increase the number of students participating in integrated learning environments for both Columbia Heights Public Schools and St. Anthony New Brighton Public Schools as measured by participation in summer programming.
- Integration Goal
- Baseline:
- 2024: 90%
- 2025: 92%
- 2026: 95%
Results and Response: Goal met. 92%.
- CHPS and St. Anthony New Brighton students participated in summer Writing and Math seminar classes. Students showed academic growth.
