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Central Middle School Shares Great News With Student Behavior Data
The 2025-26 school year is coming to a close and the administrative team at Central Middle School is sharing some exciting news around supporting student behaviors. This school year was again focused on supporting all students through clear expectations, building strong relationships, and providing consistency through practices that create a positive learning environment where every student can succeed.
“By using the data around student behavior we can see the trends and quickly identify where we need to put our efforts through intentional lessons and programs to make an impact,” said Principal Dr. Jenna Moller. “We continue to focus on positive recognition and interventions while clearly communicating expectations and consequences to both students and families to make sure all students are learning, growing, and feel like they belong at CMS.”
That sense of belonging is something that is being felt by more students at CMS, with 87.8% of current students saying they agree or strongly agree with the statement “I feel I belong at CMS.” Digging deeper into the data, there are some truly impressive trends. There has been a substantial decline in all behavioral referral areas this school year compared to the 2024-25 school year of -55% with a total of 898 referrals this year compared to 2,003 in the previous year. The number of students who received 2-5 referrals decreased from 26.5% to 18.2% while the number of students who received 6 or more referrals decreased from 18.4% to 9.1% this school year.
“This data is truly amazing and is a clear indication that the work taking place at Central through PBIS and early intervention is working,” said Superintendent Dr. Woodland. “All of the changes we have put in place over the last few years from the implementation of our deans to adding more clubs and activities to creating ways for our incoming sixth graders to connect before school starts have all been aimed at creating a school culture that empowers students.”
There will be a continued focus on this work going into the 2026-27 school year with consistent and clear schoolwide expectations and procedures, strong communication with families, expanded interventions and incentives, and ways to increase participation in clubs, sports in activities.
- Central Middle School