District staff presented the annual high‑school indicator report, reviewing ACT performance, graduation calculations, dropout accounting and college‑readiness measures.

The presentation said the class of 2025 had an average highest composite ACT score of 20.8, with reading the strongest subscore at 21.6 and math the weakest at 19.7; the district noted those figures exceed the national average for the class of 2025 (19.4) and the state average (17.5). For the class of 2026, staff reported a composite of 20.2 (state assessment for juniors).

Staff explained a methodological change in how the state pulls graduation cohorts (now in May rather than July) and a midyear change that may result in students on the 'core path' being excluded from the district's reported 4‑year graduation rate. Using current data and assumptions, the district described two reference figures: a projected 90.3% graduation rate under the prior counting expectations and an estimated 81.8% if the state applies the midyear change to block students on the core path from the graduation metric; presenters emphasized this is a reporting difference, not a change in whether students actually graduated.

Other measures: staff reported a cohort college remediation rate of about 15% (class of 2023) for students enrolling in Oklahoma colleges, noted that remediation increases can be affected by university placement cut scores, and described AP testing trends: more AP tests administered, more tests passed, and an overall AP pass rate of about 82%.

Board members asked for more disaggregated data by school and for the district to provide more breakdowns by test and school; staff agreed to provide school‑by‑school reports and to follow up on remediation trends with partner institutions.

Provenance: The report was introduced at the meeting as the "academic high school indicator report" and was discussed through the presentation and questions about graduation and dropouts.