Assessments & Testing

Students participate in required state tests in April & May every spring.  Students in grades 3-8 & 10 take the Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA) in ELA and Math. 

Students participate in required state tests in April & May every spring. Students in grades 5, 8, and 11 take the Washington Comprehensive Assessment for Science. Results are used to evaluate progress and help inform instructional practices. 

Students with significant cognitive challenges may take the WA-AIM assessment instead.

Students in grades 1-8 engage in the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments in reading and math three times a year.

Students in grades 1-5 also participate in Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) for reading fluency. 

Students in grades 2 & 5 participate in the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) to help determine eligibility for Highly Capable designation.  In addition, any student can be referred to take this assessment for eligibility purposes.

Multilingual students participate in the required WIDA language proficiency tests in order to measure progress in English language acquisition and use.  Students are screened in the fall and take an annual assessment in February and March.

Kindergarten and Transition to Kindergarten students participate in the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) to measure readiness skills.