AnalysisCompleteTuesday, October 7, 2025

Richfield Public Schools — Transcript

Areas of Interest

  • Richfield Middle School reports 51-52% reduction in tardies following implementation of new tracking and certificate incentives.
  • School board debates whether to require five-year trend data for administrative presentations to improve transparency.
  • Middle school sees significant staff retention, with only three new hires this year compared to over 17 in previous years.
  • District leadership credits 'Big Three' behavioral expectations and cafeteria cleanup rotations for improving school culture.

7 Topics in This Document

Approval of agenda

Superintendent update

Richfield Middle School presentation

Richfield Middle School trend data: attendance, behavior, and course passing rates

Review of new Middle School academic courses and interventions

Analysis of Big Three student expectations and school culture

Discussion of student tardy and absence data metrics

Full analysis
  • Richfield Middle School reports 51-52% reduction in tardies following implementation of new tracking and certificate incentives.
  • School board debates whether to require five-year trend data for administrative presentations to improve transparency.
  • Middle school sees significant staff retention, with only three new hires this year compared to over 17 in previous years.
  • District leadership credits 'Big Three' behavioral expectations and cafeteria cleanup rotations for improving school culture.
Passed

If you have seven or more in a week, that's unreasonable. And so, we've kind of listed it as like we've got this unreasonable group.

Erica Barlo
Student attendanceDescribing intervention criteria for chronic tardiness.

Could we get make it a standard of like if we're going to show trend data to get five years or do as best as we can to get five years?

Tim Palace
Data reportingRequesting more longitudinal data for board oversight.