Palmerton Area School District has formulated action plans to improve its results on the School Performance Profiles.

Superintendent Scot Engler informed school directors at a board workshop on Tuesday that the district received a preliminary release of the district's results.School Performance Profiles is the measure of how well students learn. It also provides the public with a comprehensive overview of student academic performance in every Pennsylvania public school building."We got to see an idea of what the scores will be, but we cannot release them," Engler said. "The only people that have seen them are myself and the administration."Engler said the district plans to share the results with the community once the scores are released."That is a directive from (the Pennsylvania Department of Education) that we are not to release the scores," he said. "We want to put them out there."Dan Heaney, director of curriculum, instruction and technology, said the two main areas the district needs to improve are Indicators of Academic Growth and Indicators of Academic Achievement."We looked into the data," Heaney said. "We plan to remediate the areas where we didn't see growth."The board heard from each of the building principals: Paula Husar, senior high school; Rich DeSocio, junior high school; Mary Brumbach, S.S. Palmer Elementary/Parkside Education Center; and Christine Steigerwalt, Towamensing Elementary School.Each of them said an action plan has been formulated at their respective buildings to improve upon the results.Afterward, board President Tammy Recker told the building principals that the board has confidence in them and supports them.Director Sherry Haas also voiced her support."The whole community knows we have the best team that we can have," Haas said.School Performance Profiles replaced Adequate Yearly Progress, which was part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile is used for federal accountability for Title I schools, the new teacher and principal evaluation system, and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.