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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: SHILOH MIDDLE           Principal: Tiffany N Brown
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.B - Staff and Student Well Being

Attendance - Decrease the percentage of students who are either approaching or chronically absent through incentives and engagement.
  1. Implement comprehensive, school-wide attendance protocol for taking attendance and reporting absences.
  2. Develop a school-wide attendance team led by attendance AP, which will meet weekly.
  3. Develop and implement a school-wide attendance initiative that will align with PBIS.

Attendance Reports - Employee Dashboard & Synergy (monthly)

Baseline Chronically Absent 2025:  14%

Target 2026: 10%

Baseline Regular Attendance 2025:  70%

Target 2026:  75%
Empathy 1.B - Staff and Student Well Being

Continue to sustain a supportive and safe environment for all staff and students.

  1.        SEL Initiatives

    a.      Weekly advisement lessons

    b.      Counselor lessons and support

    2.      Shiloh MS Local School Improvement Committee comprised of teachers and staff will work to develop initiatives, systems, and processes for school improvement (Success Teams).

    3.      Shiloh MS Principal Advisory Committee (Students &Principal) and Student Voice Committee will meet monthly for student input and engagement.

    4.      PBIS Committee will:

    a.      Continue to use the P.R.I.D.E. matrix to incentivize students to show good behavior, including PBIS Points, quarterly events, and weekly positive referrals.

    b.      Implement PBIS for staff to sustain morale, including Teacher/Staff bucks, jean passes, spirit days, refreshments/snacks, duty free lunches.

    c.      Mentorship will be offered for students through the following organizations:

 

 

 

Percent of staff responding positively to the following staff satisfaction EES Staff Survey items (weighted average):

I receive training to support social and emotional learning
Baseline: 78.4% 2025 Target: 80% 2026

There is a willingness to address conflict in this school
Baseline: 64.6% 2025 Target: 68% 2026

Percent of students responding positively to the following student satisfaction EES Student Survey items (weighted average):

I enjoy coming to school
Baseline: 34% 2025 Target: 40% 2026

Most students are respectful of others at this school
Baseline: 30.1% 2025 Target: 35% 2026

I feel safe at this school

Baseline: 53.8% 2025 Target: 60% 2026 
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

To provide multiple layers of academic support to ensure that all students are able to demonstrate achievement growth and/or AKS mastery.
  1. School-wide morning Extended Learning Time - 40 minutes of additional instruction for LA and math remediation or enrichment across based on student iReady assessment data.
  2. Small group instruction- individualized instruction and support to help students obtain AKS mastery based on proficient & distinguished achievement level descriptors.
  3. Monthly Kid Talks/MTSS Tier 2 and Tier 3 meetings for identification and monitoring of interventions and supports in reading, math and behavior for students during grade-level planning.
  4. AAP: Winter Academic Assistance Program (January-February), Winter Intensive Academic Assistance Program (March-April) for students at risk of not obtaining 5/7 passing grades.
  5. Provide additional staffing to provide for smaller class sizes and intervention. (Title I points to supplement FTE)

iReady Fall Reading & Math
iReady Winter Reading & Math

District Assessments ELA, math, science and social studies


Decrease the percentage of students scoring in the Beginning Level in ELA, math, science and social studies on GMAS Spring 2026 by 10%.

ELA 6th Grade  38% to 28%

ELA 7th Grade 31.5% to 21.5%

ELA 8th Grade 30.9% to 20.9%

Math 6th Grade 33.8%  to  23.8%

Math 7th Grade  28.9%  to  18.9%

Math 8th Grade 23.3%  to 13.3%

Science 8th Grade (EOG) 100% to 90%

Physical Science 9th Grade (EOC) 53.7% to 43.7% 

Social Studies 8th Grade 37.3% to 27.3%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Shiloh Middle School will continue to elevate student exposure, engagement, and cultural relevance with varied, high quality, high impact global learning opportunities.

1. Build teacher capacity by increasing the number of teachers who are Gifted Endorsed to increase library of best practices to better meet the needs of all of our students.

2. Elevate the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP) through:
a. Training for the principal, coordinator and teachers through workshops, conferences, and current IB school visits.
b. Utilizing, with fidelity, a Shiloh Middle School IB committee to oversee implementation of practices aligned with the IB model.

3. Content assistant principals will participate in and provide professional learning for effective instructional planning in CLT (Collaborative Learning Teams) using student data and alignment with proficient and distinguished achievement level descriptors (twice per week).

4. Teachers will participate weekly in data meetings to review formative and summative assessments, as well as student work to determine areas for remediation, intervention, and/or enrichment.

Increase the percentage of students scoring at the Proficient and Distinguished levels in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies on GMAS Spring 2026 by 5%.

ELA 6th Grade 37.5% to 42.5%

ELA 7th Grade 40.7% to 45.7%

ELA 8th Grade 31% to 36%

Math 6th Grade 25.6%  to 30.5%

Math 7th Grade  27.4% to  32.4%

Math 8th Grade EOG 36.8%  to 41.8%

Math Alg C&C 88.8% to 93.8%

Science 8th Grade (EOG) 0% to 5%

Physical Science 9th Grade (EOC)- Taken by 8th grade students  17.6 to 22.6%

Social Studies 8th Grade 29.4% to 34.4%
Effectiveness 3.B - Talent Management

Shiloh Middle School will provide targeted, content-based, skills-based PD opportunities for all staff in an effort to provide nurturing and differentiated academic and social experiences for our scholars.

1. Assess the training needs for instructional staff in order to develop and calendarize differentiated PD opportunities throughout the school year.

2. Develop and implement targeted PD for teachers in alignment with Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies, Explicit Instruction, and High Quality Tier I Instruction.

3. Implement a Shiloh Middle School leadership cohort, consisting of activities and learning opportunities throughout the school year in order to build leadership capacity and grow the talent pipeline within Shiloh ("Grow Your Own").

Percent of staff responding positively to the following staff satisfaction EES Staff Survey items (weighted average):

Our teachers engage in classroom-based professional development activities (e.g. peer coaching) that focus on improving instruction

Baseline: 69.2% 2025  Target:  80% 2026

Our teachers engage in professional development activities to learn and apply new skills and strategies    

Baseline:  80.5% 2025  Target:  90% 2026 

Staff are held accountable for the new behaviors and practices needed to achieve our school improvement plan goals    

Baseline:  79% 2025  Target:  85% 2026

Peer observation/coaching and feedback is a tool we use to improve instruction    

Baseline:  62.9% 2025  Target:  75% 2026

Staff share a high sense of urgency around the need to improve    

Baseline:  67.1% 2025  Target:  75% 2026

Support from my principal/supervisor leads to progress on instructional improvement (or professional growth)    

Baseline:  83.8% 2025  Target:  90% 2026

We reflect upon instructional practice to inform our conversations about improvement    

Baseline:  78.8% 2025  Target:  85% 2026

We are provided training to meet the needs of a diverse student population in our school    

Baseline:  67.8% 2025  Target:  75% 2026
Family Engagement/Building Parent Capacity -

Shiloh Middle School will continue to build parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement through engagement and implementation of the activities identified in GCPS The Plan/The Promise.

1. Provide all key communication materials in multiple languages.

2. Provide monthly newsletters to staff and families.

3. Provide two family data nights (one each semester) for parents to understand the progress of their scholar(s), how to read assessment data reports, understand scholar goal setting, and tips on how to support at home.

4. Host a Literacy Night for families to engage in the middle school learning experience as well as to receive valuable literary resources.

5. Host a STEM Night for families to engage in exciting math, science, and technology activities, learn strategies used in middle school math, and to receive resources for home.

Percent of families responding positively to the following family satisfaction EES Family Survey items:

I believe the adults in this school care about my students.

Baseline: 78.9% 2025 Target: 85% 2026

This school communicates with me about my student’s progress.

Baseline: 74.8% 2025 Target: 80% 2026

Teachers in this school are dedicated to helping all students succeed.

Baseline: 75.2%% 2025 Target: 80% 2026