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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 HIGH           Principal: Christopher Martin
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.A - Cultural Competence

The Lanier Cluster Vertical Team will engage in professional learning with the ML Programs Office 5 times throughout SY2025-2026. This PL 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.
  1. ML team will participate in cluster professional learning and redelivery to teachers
  2. Vertical Team meetings will take place from September to April.
  3. ML Cultural Awareness Survey will be administered to staff; results will be used for additional professional development.

Cultural Awareness Staff survey responses: 

  • 22.3% of staff do not regularly incorporate culturally relevant materials and examples into their teaching.  After redelivery of best practices and teaching models learned from the Lanier Cluster ML professional development, the survey will be re-administered in April.  A goal of 90% or more staff will have learned protocols to incorporate cultural awareness.

Multilingual student academic performance:

  • Increased performance over 1st semester on Formative and Summative assessments in classes where cultural biases and awareness have been implemented.
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

Lanier High School will implement a comprehensive framework to fully operationalize MTSS to address both academic and non-academic needs of students.
  1. Longhorn Time will incorporate intervention programs in grades 9-12 for students who have been identified as needing academic support and who have academic deficiencies as demonstrated on common and district assessments. 
  2. The four core departments (LA, MA, SC, SS) will administer formative assessments. Course teams that teach End of Course classes will use student data to drive instructional practices, feedback and re-teaching.
  3. Classroom teachers will incorporate quality plus teaching strategies into daily lessons to enhance our core belief of activate, acquire, and assess.

Increase the percentage of students scoring in the Proficient and Distinguished areas of EOC tests by 10%. 

Increase classroom academic performance and success rates for each teacher by a minimum of 10%

Language Arts- 9th, 10th, 11th grade courses 

Teachers will use county-generated interim and final exams.  Scores from the 1st semester will be compared with the 2nd semester.  The goal will be a 10% increase in performance.

Baseline:  Scores from 1st semester

Goal:  10% increase

Math-Algebra I

Baseline:  37.4%

Goal: 47.4%

Science- Biology

Baseline:  60.8%

Goal:  70%

Social Studies- U.S. History

  Baseline:  48.1%

  Goal:  49.1%

Reduce the number of OSS incidents by incorporating PBIS interventions.

 Baseline: 97  (Number of OSS Incidents from August- April 2024/2025)

 Goal:  92 (Decrease OSS incidents by 5%)

 
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Lanier High School administrators, counselors, and teachers will provide opportunities for students to have different learning experiences related to pathway completion, post-secondary coursework, and the workforce.
  1. Counseling Department informational sessions:  Highlight opportunities for students to enroll in Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, CDAT, and Maxwell High School of Technology
  2. Host Lanier Cluster College and Career Night: Student and Parent Event
  3. Host FAFSA Financial Aid Night: Senior Student and Parent Event  
  4. Schedule career-related academy presentations, guest speakers, field trips, and other activities

Graduation Rate:

Baseline:  94.8%

Goal: 95.0%

Percentage of AP Students scoring 3 or higher and earning college credit:

  Baseline: 86.11%

  Goal: Increase by 2% to 87.8%

Work-Based Learning Student Enrollment:

Baseline:  100 students

Goal: 105 students

Pathway Completion (All Areas) Percentage Rate:

Baseline: 44.81

Goal: 46.15