Measuring student achievement was on the agenda at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Mathews County School Board, as Schools Superintendent Dr. David S. Daniel reviewed some of the criteria that go into calculating the Virginia Department of Education’s new accountability system, the School Performance and Support Framework. In 2024, the VDOE adopted this new system, and schools received their first ratings and designations last fall. This year’s results by school are expected to come out in October. The new framework rates schools on four components: Mastery, Growth, Readiness, and Graduation. Each component is weighted differently depending on whether it is for elementary, middle or high school. Those components are broken down into several measurements, which vary in importance by school level. Daniel went through the somewhat labyrinthine system for calculating an individual school’s overall score, some of which is based on test results and other data several years old. “This will tak...