Superintendent Doug White’s job performance for the academic year was proficient to exemplary, with a handful of Joint School Committee members saying few areas needed improvement.

The Joint School Committee evaluated the superintendent’s progress at its May 15 meeting held in the high school’s media room.

“The work that you do each and every day is seen through various different lenses throughout our education system,” said Chair James O’Brien.

This year, the evaluation process had the chairs of Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester School Committees meeting regularly to gather comments from committee members. White’s performance in several areas was reviewed.

Overall, White earned a proficient ranking for management and operations, family and community engagement, professional culture and instructional leadership. A few members said White showed exemplary progress in all categories, however, others said a few areas needed improvement.

Consistent drops in math proficiency scores at the junior high level compared to sixth grade students were a cause for concern.

Under comments, a member wrote that while White, “has made tremendous strides to ensure high standards across the system, one must recognize that there is a concern for level two status at the junior high school.”

The state ranks schools on a five-level classification system. The highest performing schools are level one schools and the lowest performing schools are level five schools.

Members recognized that administrators are working on the problem. Recently, new practices were enacted to ease the transition to the junior high.

Achieving goals related to technology was a highlight for members.

With a new designer hired to manage the district website, faster Internet connections and an effort to put Google Chromebooks in student’s hands, O’Brien said White made excellent progress.

“This was an area of high strength,” O’Brien said.

Committee members also praised White for engaging staff and students.

“He excels in building teams for success,” O’Brien said.

Another member wrote that White, “has shown great passion for ensuring the education of all students. He provides a wealth of outcome and actions from case studies he sees throughout the year.”

Member Joe Scott said this was the first year White was working with a fully staffed central office administration. Before Business Administrator Patrick Spencer was hired last year much of the budget planning fell to White.

“I think another year under our belt will bring us even better results,” Scott said.

White thanked committee members for the evaluation and said the process can be daunting at times.

“As a district and administrative team we still have some work to do,” White said. “We will keep going and keep pushing to make sure every student has the best experience possible in these three towns.”