• Attendance Rates
• Discipline Rates 
• Number of FARMS students 
• Title I Status 
• Quarterly Assessments scores - English 
• Quarterly Assessments scores - Mathematics 
• PARCC Scores - Mathematics (Elementary grades 3, 4, 5) 
• PARCC Scores - English/Language Arts (Elementary grades 3, 4, 5) 

• Socio-Economic Issues (employment, income levels, housing costs)  
• Families in Crisis (mental, physical, emotional, financial)  
• Inclusion of programs of choice , Inclusion of Support Staff

Key Challenge #2 Families in Crisis: We as a school, county, and state continue to support many families in crisis, and without adequate full-time qualified staff in the building it is often challenging.  At times, families have numerous external and internal factors impacting students’ lives outside of the school environment.  Some homes have multiple families living in close quarters, and students have additional responsibilities that impact their ability to focus on their educational needs. More and more family members are required to work more than one job (often morning and night shifts) in order to provide for their family.  This ultimately results in students taking on the responsibility of caring for younger siblings, feeding themselves or others, and ensuring that their own basic needs are met. These family crises manifest themselves in many ways for our students, including through reduced attendance, behavioral issues, and lower academic performance. Implementing a school student support team is one of our first steps to support our families dealing with trauma. 

• Socio-economic community issues (employment, income levels, housing costs) 
• Significant changes over time in student/community demographics 
• Access (or lack of access) to community social programs  
• Access (or lack of access) to community academic support programs  
• Significant increase/reduction in student enrollment numbers 

       
Key Challenge #1 Increase in Population: 

The significant changes that we continue to face is based on the drastic increase in our student population.  Our population over the past 5 years has nearly doubled to over 820 students. Several new neighborhoods have been added to our attendance zone over the last few years that attract new families.  The increase in students has not only impacted class size, but also those adults who provide instruction and student services (counseling, social workers, psychologist, etc.). Our school was originally built to house 659 students.  The increase in population has resulted in some cultural arts classes sharing teaching space and portable classrooms housing both general education classes and resource staff. The larger population affects daily school routines, even making it difficult to allow students adequate time to progress through the cafeteria and to finish their lunches due to large class sizes.