Two Franklin Special School District schools have been designated as 2024 Super Stretch Schools for demonstrating "remarkable reading growth."

Franklin Elementary and Moore Elementary both received this designation over the summer based on i-Ready diagnostic data from the 2023–24 school year, which showed that students attained notable reading growth, called “Stretch Growth,” during the year.

i-Ready Super Stretch Schools are schools with more than 200 enrolled students who had 55% or more of their students meet their Stretch Growth targets. Both Franklin Elementary and Moore Elementary achieved a 56% Stretch Growth target. 

"We are elated for both Moore Elementary and Franklin Elementary,” Mary Decker, FSSD's associate director of schools for teaching and learning, said in a release.

“Our district has seen the powerful impact of i-Ready, an example of the high-quality instructional materials that are the standard in Franklin Special, on student learning. It is no coincidence that these super stretch schools see similarly high TCAP English language arts scores. The closure of achievement gaps is possible, and these schools have demonstrated how to accomplish it.”

i-Ready, a digital partner used by FSSD that combines assessment and individualized online instruction to help teachers understand student needs and track their progress, assigns differentiated growth goals to each student based on their grade level and placement level as determined by the initial math and reading diagnostics administered at the beginning of the school year.

Typical growth is the average growth students on the same grade and placement level are expected to make in a school year, while Stretch Growth is a more ambitious growth target that aims to move students closer to (or beyond) proficiency faster.