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Accountability and flexibility are hallmarks of Gwinnett County Public Schools' success. Key to that success is ensuring that each school community understands the progress being made by its schools, as well as what plans will drive improvement. Each school creates a collaborative Local School Plan for Improvement (LSPI) to increase student achievement results, with targeted goals based on the four strategic priorities within the district’s Blueprint for the Future: Empathy, Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence. All schools across the district will focus on goals 2A- Multi-tiered Systems of Support and 2B- Opportunity and Access. Additionally, schools are required to select one goal from each of the other strategic priorities. LSPI goals are dynamic, like our schools, and are updated to reflect changes that occur in schools. Multiple data points are used to determine areas needing improvement and to identify specific, measurable, annual objectives. Schools then determine how to use research-based strategies to achieve these goals, using flexibility as needed. The LSPI development process involves teachers, parents, students, and community members, so the entire school community has the opportunity to be involved in conversations about school improvement.

 

2025 - 2026 Local School Plan for Improvement (LSPI)


School: LANIER MIDDLE           Principal: Bryce Fulcher
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

The implementation of a comprehensive framework to fully operationalize a multi-tiered system of supports to address academic and non-academic student needs will result in removing barriers to success.
  1. Target Chronic Student Absenteeism - In addition to providing intervention for those students struggling with attendance, Lanier Middle School will provide regular communication with families regarding their student's attendance and will develop and implement a program to recognize students for both positive attendance and improvement in attendance.

  2. Academic Supports - Lanier Middle School will accelerate learning as a means to close achievement gaps through the use of academic supports such as i-Ready, Amplify, Achieve 3000, Read 180, and REP Programming during its CQI period. 

  3. Data Review – Teachers will review student performance data during monthly Kid Talk meetings to identify students in need of additional support and will initiate communication with families, match students with supports, and monitor the progress resulting from those supports.

  4. PBIS/Behavior Intervention - Lanier Middle School will continue to recognize, celebrate, and model positive behaviors of students.  Additionally, the school will continue to refine the Student Intervention Center to implement restorative practices as well as assign/train specific teachers in early behavior intervention as a response to minor discipline behaviors.

  5. Student Goal-Setting - As a foundational Tier I support, students will participate in academic goal-setting lessons and conferences to promote positive academic and attendance behaviors.

  6. Universal Screeners - Lanier Middle School will administer academic and wellness universal screeners to students to provide early intervention and acceleration.

Decrease the percent "beginning" on Milestones:

  24-25 Beginning 25-26 Beginning Goal
6ELA 19.5% 15.0%
7ELA 22.4% 17.5%
8ELA 15.6% 15.6%
6MA 11.7% 9.9%
7MA 18.1% 14.0%
8MA Combined 4.9% 4.5%
8SC 21.7% 16.0%
8SS 9.8% 9.0%

 

Increase the percent of 8th grade students reading on grade level as measured by the Georgia Milestones:

Baseline: 84.8%

Goal: 86.8%

 

Maintain the percentage of students whose behavior results in multiple incidents of OSS exclusionary discipline at or below 2.0%:

Baseline: 2.0%

Goal: <2.0%

 

Reduce the percentage of students identified as chronically absent over the course of the 2025-26 school year:

Baseline:  11%

Goal: 8.2%

 

Maintain the percentage of students participating in academic and wellness universal screeners at or above 95%:

Baseline: 95%

Goal: >95%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Expanding student opportunities to engage in and access high-quality, rigorous, and enrichment activities maximizes and enhances the educational experience.

Lanier Cluster Multilingual Vertical Team - The Lanier Cluster Vertical Team will engage in professional learning with the ML Programs Office throughout the 2025-2026 school year. This professional learning will be designed to increase teachers’ capacity to support language acquisition and provide access to grade level content through scaffolding of materials, practices, and groupings and include training on Instructional Conversations. The Lanier Cluster Vertical Team will redeliver professional learning sessions at each cluster school.

Refine Academic Classroom Conversations - Lanier Middle School teachers will engage in professional learning to strengthen the quality and intentionality of academic conversations to support learning and language production.

Strengthen Instruction for Gifted and Talented Students - Lanier Middle School teachers who serve gifted students will participate in professional learning centered around the implementation of strategies to support gifted learners and Problem-Based Learning training in order to ensure all students have access to rigorous educational opportunities. 

Decrease the percentage of ML students scoring "beginning" on Milestones Assessments.

  ML 24-25 Beginning ML 25-26 Beginning Goal
6ELA 34.8% 30.0%
7ELA 47.1% 40.0%
8ELA 35.9% 31.0%
6MA 22.6% 18.0%
7MA 34.3% 29.0%
8MA EOG 17.4% 14.0%
8MA EOC 0.0% 0.0%
8MA Combined 15.7% 13.0%
8SC 40.2% 34.5%
8SS 28.6% 23.0%

Increase the percentage of ML students scoring "proficient and distinguished" on Milestones Assessments.

  ML 24-25 Proficient + ML 25-26 Proficient + Goal
6ELA 46.1% 50.0%
7ELA 22.5% 27.0%
8ELA 28.3% 32.0%
6MA 44.3% 48.0%
7MA 32.4% 37.0%
8MA EOG 56.5% 60.0%
8MA EOC 100.0% 100.0%
8MA Combined 60.8% 63.0%
8SC 38.0% 43.0%
8SS 47.3% 52.0%

Increase the percentage of ML students that moved one or more bands on ACCESS.

Baseline: 57.5%

Goal: 60.4%

 

Increase the “% proficient and distinguished” on Milestones:

  24-25 Proficient + 25-26 Proficient + Goal
6ELA 60.5% 68.3%
7ELA 53.4% 57.0%
8ELA 57.7% 65.0%
6MA 56.8% 59.2%
7MA 58.0% 61.5%
8MA Combined 81.4% 81.4%*
8SC 55.9% 60.6%
8SS 69.0% 69.0%*
    *Denotes a score greater than 90%'ile