Samuel D. Dasher

The Jefferson County School System's goals for 2025-2026 focus on increasing student achievement across all content areas and subgroups, creating a positive school culture, improving outcomes for students with disabilities, and increasing teacher retention. Specific goals are set for individual schools such as Louisville Academy, Carver Elementary, Wrens Elementary, JCMS, and JCHS, focusing on improving test scores, school climate, instructional quality, and student engagement.

The Jefferson County School System's 2024-2025 goals focus on decreasing achievement gaps, improving school culture and climate, creating effective evaluation systems, increasing teacher retention, and enhancing student performance across various schools. Specific targets include reducing achievement gaps by 3% of potential growth, improving school climate ratings, creating progress-focused evaluation systems for special education, increasing teacher retention, improving GA Milestones Assessment scores by 3% or more, fostering positive school climates, improving special education student performance on GA Milestones Assessments, enhancing teacher use of lesson plan templates, increasing the number of students on grade level in reading and math to 50%, developing a structure to track content mastery, improving student achievement by 5% potential growth on state assessments, improving school safety and climate, growing staff professional capacity, improving special education student performance on iReady assessments, using formative data to adjust instruction, building a STEAM curriculum, continuing the advisement program, implementing clarity components, showing 3% potential growth on school climate surveys, and increasing the number of students performing at the proficient level on Georgia Milestones assessments.

Jefferson County Schools (JCS) maintains a commitment to educational excellence and upholding high education standards through a comprehensive quality assurance and oversight process. The district uses the vision, mission, and beliefs to drive decision-making and provide continued support for school improvement and increasing student outcomes. The JCS Strategic Plan was last revised in 2023 with input from all stakeholders. The Strategic Plan focuses on the global needs (5 year plan) of the district so that personnel, resources, and initiatives can be aligned to the district improvement plan which contains the annual work that is to be done.