Assessments & Screening

Updated Version 2024-2025

	K	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)	X
STAR Reading & Math	X	X	X	X	X	X
STAR CBM (Oral Reading Fluency)		X
Concepts About Print	X
Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST)	X	X	X
LETRS Phonics and Word Reading Survey	X	X	X	X	X	X
LETRS Spelling Screener	X	X	X	X	X	X
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:  Oral Reading Fluency			X	X	X	X
Essential Standards Comprehension Check	X	X	X	X	X	X
COGAT/IOWA Ability Test			X
State Achievement Test (SCReady)				X	X	X
SRSS-IE	X	X	X	X	X	X

Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) | A state readiness test given individually to kindergarten students within the first 45 days of school. Readiness skills include: Social foundations, language/literacy, math, & physical well being.

STAR Reading & Math | STAR Reading & Math is a standards-based, computer-adaptive assessment that measures students’ reading & math comprehension. These assessments are administered throughout the year and provide teachers formative data to guide instructional decisions in the classroom throughout the school year. 

STAR CBM Oral Reading Fluency | A tool to measure a student's reading rate and accuracy by having them read aloud from an unfamiliar passage for one minute. This assessment is given to 1st grade students three times a year.

Concepts About Print Assessment (CAPs) | A foundations of literacy skill assessment on understanding how print works given individually to kindergarten students three times a year.

Phonological Awareness (PAST) | An informal, diagnostic tool that assesses a child's understanding of phonological awareness given to Kindergarten through 2nd grade students three times a year and 3rd through 5th grade as needed.

LETRS Phonics Screener | A tool for identifying which phonics correspondences and patterns a student has learned, and which ones the student needs to be taught. This assessment is given to Kindergarten through 5th grade students one to three times a year.

LETRS Spelling Screener | A tool that assesses students' spelling abilities by recording their encoding skills based on phoneme-grapheme correspondences and orthographic patterns. This assessment is given to Kindergarten through 5th grade students one to three times a year.

HMH Oral Reading Fluency | A tool to measure a student's reading rate and accuracy by having them read aloud from an unfamiliar passage for one minute. This assessment is given to 2nd grade through 5th grade students three times a year.

Essential Standard Comprehension Check | Students listen to or read a grade level appropriate text and answer questions about the text.  The teacher will use a rubric to assess comprehension based on the ELA State Standards. This assessment is given to Kindergarten through 5th grade students  two to three times a year.

COGAT | An ability test usually administered in the fall of 2nd grade to select participants for the Gifted and Talented Math and English Language Arts instruction for grades 3-5.

Iowa Assessment | Iowa testing will only be administered to students in second grade. The assessment is used to assess achievement in math and reading subtests. Students receive a NPR (National Percentile Ranking) score that serves as an estimation of his/her instructional level and will also help select participants in the Gifted and Talented Math and ELA for grades 3-5. 

SC Ready (May) | The South Carolina College-and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY) are statewide assessments in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science (4th Grade). The SC READY Assessment items measure student performance on the 2015 South Carolina College-and Career-Ready Standards.

SRSS-IE Screener | A social-emotional screener for identifying internalizing and externalizing behaviors.