Student Assessments


Progress Monitoring

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring system that is administered three times per year to track student progress in learning the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards throughout the school year.  All students are assessed in Reading and Math in the fall, winter and spring.  Students in the 5th grade also participate in Science progress monitoring .

Students in the 4th and 5th grades also take the BEST Writing Assessment in April.

Students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade take the STAR assessments.

Students in Grades 3-5 take the FAST assessments. 

For more information about the Florida Statewide Assessments program, please visit the portal at https://flfast.org/fsa.html. 


WIDA-ACCESS Assessment 


ACCESS 2.0 for ELLs is an English language proficiency assessment administered to Kindergarten through 12th-grade students who have been identified as English Language Learners (ELLs). It is given annually to monitor students' progress in acquiring academic English. ACCESS 2.0 for ELLs is aligned with the WIDA English Language Development Standards and assesses each of the four language domains of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.


Purpose and use of ACCESS 2.0 for ELLs:

  • Helps students and families understand students’ current level of English language proficiency along the developmental continuum.

  • Serves as one of the multiple measures used to determine whether students are prepared to exit English language support programs.

  • Generates information that assists in determining whether ELLs have attained the language proficiency needed to participate meaningfully in content area classrooms without program support.

  • Provides teachers with information they can subsequently use to enhance instruction and learning in programs for their English language learners.

  • Provides districts with information that will help them evaluate the effectiveness of their ESL/bilingual programs.

  • Meets, and exceeds, federal requirements for the monitoring and reporting of ELLs' progress toward English language proficiency.

Students may be given other assessments by the classroom teacher.