Kenai Peninsula district sets AK STAR academic baseline

A new district baseline

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s AK STAR scores have established a new academic baseline for the district. The baseline gives the district a reference point for its students’ performance on the AK STAR assessment.

What the baseline means

A baseline is a starting measure that can be used for comparison over time. The district’s AK STAR results now provide that starting point for future discussion of academic performance.

The development concerns the district as a whole. It does not identify individual candidates or involve an election.

What remains to be tracked

Future district updates can show how later AK STAR results compare with this baseline. Those comparisons may help the district, families and the public follow academic performance over time.

The baseline itself does not establish why scores took a particular shape, nor does it state what actions the district will take next.