Fresno Unified is off track in achieving its ambitious early literacy and literacy intervention goals, according to the district’s assessment data for the 2024-25 school year.
Last spring, 46% of first-graders met their stretch growth target in the iReady diagnostic assessment. While the figure fell 1.5% short of the target, it represented an increase of 5 percentage point increase compared to spring 2024. The district aims to reach 54% by the end of this spring semester.
For literacy intervention, only 28% of identified third- to sixth-grade students met their stretch growth goal on iReady, showing a slight improvement from the 26% baseline recorded in spring 2024. The figure was 12.5% lower than its Spring 2025 target. The district has set a 55% goal for the end of this spring semester.
The results, shared at a school board meeting last week, are the initial outcomes of Superintendent Misty Her’s plan to improve the long-standing academic underperformance in California’s third-largest school district. She was appointed as the interim superintendent in May 2024 and assumed the permanent role in April 2025…