Testing & Assessment

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) will be given to all 11th grade students  in both English Language Arts and Math. As you may remember, this assessment replaces the CST’s and STAR exams  that were given in previous years. Smarter Balanced has developed next-generation assessments to accurately measure student progress toward college and career readiness in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics. SBAC measure student’s proficiency in meeting the high school standards from 9th through 11th grade. SBAC scores may range from “standard not met”, “standard nearly met”, “standard met”, and “standard exceeded”. In previous years, the CST's had an optional component of the test called the Early Assessment Program (EAP) for math and English. The advantage of the EAP assessment was for placement into college level courses without need for remediation. The EAP test will be a part of the SBAC.