As the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District prepares to head back to school, they have a goal in mind for the upcoming year. 

ADM Superintendent Greg Dufoe says the “Wildly Important Goal” for the district, which outlines what the major focus is for the year, is to continue to decrease the number of students in the district who are considered not proficient.

“What we call a WIG, indicates that it’s the most important effort that we’ll make and we prioritize it above everything else and again for the second year in a row, our ‘Wildly Important Goal,’ is focused on literacy. So, our target is to decrease the percentage of students not proficient from 18-percent down to 10 this year.”

Dufoe says last year the district had the same goal and saw good progress and he wants to use that momentum from last year moving forward. 

“That’s an eight-percent decrease which is really aggressive but we moved the needle in a big way last year and we want to continue that effort as we attempt to really boldly pursue our mission of high levels of learning for all students.”

The first day of school in the ADM School District is slated for August 23rd.