Associate Superintendents, Academic Performance Update for Schools of Supervision, October 2018

The Associate Superintendents of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) serve as mentors to site principals and along with those leaders at the school level have responsibility for academic results at the schools under their supervision.  Over the last half decade the number of associate superintendents has gone from eight, to six, to four, and now to three.  During the 2017-2018 academic year the associate superintendents included Laura Cavender, Lucilla Davila, Carla Steinbach, and Ron Wagner;  for the current academic year of 2018-2019, Cavender has been reassigned as principal of Bryn Mawr K-5 elementary school and Davis has been reassigned as principal of Folwell K-8 elementary school.   Steinbach and Wagner remain as associate superintendents, the former with responsibility for all middle schools and high schools, the latter with responsibility for approximately half of all MPS K-5 and K-8 elementary schools;  Brian Zambreno came to the district from Richfield and has responsibility for the remainder of the K-5 and K-8 schools.

 

The following tabular presentation gives multi-year academic results for the schools under the supervision of each of the associate superintendents.  Steinbach and Wagner have been with the Minneapolis Public Schools for many years and bear considerable responsibility for the academic performance of the schools under their supervision.  All three of the current associate superintendents should be held responsible for results observed by this time next academic year 2019-2020.

 

Consider:

 

Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach, Multi-Year Academic Performance for Schools Supervised

 

Percentage of Students Proficient at Grade Level as Indicated by Performance on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 

Mathematics

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  41%       45%        39%        39%        40%

 

Reading

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  47%       45%        43%        44%        45%

 

Science

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  33%       41%        32%        32%        32% 

 

 

Associate Superintendent Ron Wagner, Multi-Year Academic Performance for Schools Supervised

 

Percentage of Students Proficient at Grade Level as Indicated by Performance on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 

Mathematics

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  38%       39%        42%        41%        41%

 

Reading

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  33%       34%        37%        38%        40%

 

Science

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  24%       25%        30%        31%        30% 

 

Associate Superintendent Brian Zambreno, Multi-Year Academic Performance for Schools Supervised

 

Note:  This is Brian Zambreno’s first year with the Minneapolis Publlic Schools, si that these schools previously fell under some other administrator’s responsibility.

 

Percentage of Students Proficient at Grade Level as Indicated by Performance on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 

Mathematics

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  55%       52%        51%        48%        46%

 

Reading

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  50%       46%        49%        47%        49%

 

Science

 

2014       2015       2016       2017       2018

 

  46%       43%        44%        41%        41%