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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: SUGAR HILL ELEMENTARY           Principal: Nick Boyers
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
  • Identify academic and nonacademic strengths, needs, and interests of each and every student to ensure whole learner, whole child focus.
  • Reduce variability and increase the fidelity of High Quality Tier 1 instruction implementation for all students, including targeted small groups, grade level curriculum, ongoing formative assessments, and progress monitoring. 

 
  1. 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. The Lanier Cluster Vertical Team will redeliver professional learning sessions at each cluster school.
  2. The Lanier Cluster Vertical Team will create common learning walk forms designed to promote consistency and accountability for new learning across the cluster.
  3. All Level I ML learners will spend 60 minutes per week on Imagine Learning. 
  4. ML teachers will conduct data talks with homeroom teachers after each Imagine Learning Benchmark and provide bi-weekly Imagine Learning reports.
  5. Teachers will meet two times per week with their Collaborative Learning Team (CLT) to focus on the following questions:

    • How will we know if they students learned it?

    • What will we do if students do not learn it?

    • What will we do if students already know it?

     6. Teachers will provide data-driven small group instruction in math and ELA

     7. Building leadership capacity in ELA and math instructional leads through quarterly Leadership Labs.

     8. The MTSS team will analyze data monthly to be more prescriptive when targeting each students’ needs.

     9. The PBIS team will develop and implement clearly defined criteria and interventions for each tier with a focus on Tier 2. The team will create a                 school-wide intervention menu for behavior. 

    10. The PBIS team will lead the school in pursuing kindness certification. 

    11. Full Gwinnett Writes implementation in 4th grade.

    12. 3rd and 5th grade will implement formative writing tasks.

 

  • Increase the percentage of ML students that moved one more more bands on ACCESS from the previous year:

    • Baseline: 69%

    • Target: 72-74%

    • Stretch: 75-77%

  • Increase the percentage of students scoring Proficient or Distinguished on GMAS in ELA, math, and science (5th)

 

 

Baseline

Target Goal

Stretch Goal

3rd ELA

46%

49-51%

52-54%

3rd Math

55%

58-60%

61-63%

4th ELA

45%

48-50%

51-53%

4th Math

72%

75-77%

78-80%

5th ELA

61%

64-66%

67-69%

5th Math

67%

70-72%

73-75%

5th Science

69%

72-74%

75-77%

  • Increase the percent of students demonstrating sufficient growth first semester to allow them to meet their Annual Typical Growth at the end of year (50% math and 55% ELA)

ELA Typical Growth

Baseline

Target Goal

Stretch Goal

K

52%

55-57%

58-60%

1st

60%

63-65%

66-68%

2nd

60%

63-65%

66-68%

3rd

59%

62-64%

65-66%

4th

63%

66-68%

69-71%

5th

49%

52-54%

55-57%

School Total

57%

60-62%

63-65%



Math Typical Growth

Baseline

Target Goal

Stretch Goal

K

59%

62-64%

65-67%

1st

63%

66-68%

69-71%

2nd

45%

48-50%

51-53%

3rd

41%

44-46%

47-49%

4th

49%

52-54%

55-57%

5th

49%

52-54%

55-57%

School Total

50%

53-55%

56-58%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access
  • Increase opportunities for students to demonstrate eligibility in Advanced Content science.
  • Increase opportunities for families to engage in their child’s development.

 
  1. 5th grade students will have an opportunity to participate in Advanced Content science.
  2. Implement a Parent workshop series around child brain development
  3. Increase the number of texts aligned with EL Education modules
  4. Create a literacy committee and implement a summer reading program to promote a love of reading
  5. Attendance initiative
  6. Begin fundraising campaign for inclusive playground

 

Increase the percentage of students that were present 90% or more days from 93% during the 24-25 school year to 95% during the 25-26 school year.