Princeton Joint Unified School District

This Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Princeton Joint Unified School District outlines a three-year strategic direction to enhance pupil outcomes and overall performance. The plan focuses on three main pillars: optimizing conditions of learning by ensuring highly competent teachers, standards-aligned materials, and well-maintained facilities; improving pupil outcomes through a comprehensive course of study, measured by academic achievement and college/career readiness; and fostering a climate of engagement, involvement, and connectedness among students, parents, and the community. The intended outcomes include maintaining high academic standards, preparing students for post-secondary success, and ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment with active stakeholder participation.

This Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Princeton Joint Unified School District serves as a roadmap for the 2022-23 school year, detailing how the district will utilize resources to enhance student opportunities and outcomes. The plan is structured around three main goals: optimizing conditions of learning through effective teaching, appropriate materials, and well-maintained facilities; improving pupil outcomes in academics, college and career preparedness, and English language proficiency; and fostering engagement, involvement, and a safe school climate for students and stakeholders. A core focus is dedicated to increasing and improving services for foster youth, English learners, and low-income students.

The Princeton Joint Unified School District's Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan for 2020-21 addresses the educational impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on ensuring continuity of learning through in-person and distance models, mitigating pupil learning loss, and supporting mental health and social-emotional well-being. Key components include providing devices and connectivity, engaging families, offering staff professional development, and maintaining school nutrition, with a specific emphasis on increasing services for foster youth, English learners, and low-income students.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Princeton Joint Unified School District serves as a comprehensive strategic roadmap for the 2024-25 through 2026-27 school years. It focuses on optimizing student learning conditions by ensuring highly competent staff, providing standards-aligned instructional programs, and maintaining well-kept facilities. The plan also aims to cultivate a climate of engagement, involvement, and connectedness, demonstrated by strong attendance, high graduation rates, low suspension and expulsion rates, and active parent and stakeholder participation. Key priorities include raising math scores on CASSPP testing for all student subgroups, particularly socioeconomically disadvantaged and Hispanic students, and preventing credit-deficient students from dropping out or not graduating through online credit recovery programs. The plan emphasizes increasing or improving services for foster youth, English learners, and low-income students.

This document serves as an annual update for developing the 2021-24 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), informed by the 2019-20 LCAP and the 2020-21 Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan. The strategic direction focuses on three main goals: optimizing conditions of student learning through effective teachers, instructional programs, and facilities; improving pupil outcomes in academics, college and career preparedness, and English language proficiency; and fostering engagement, involvement, and connectedness among students, parents, and stakeholders to ensure strong attendance, graduation rates, and a positive school climate.