• The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment provides parents, teachers, and early childhood providers with a common understanding of what children know and can do upon entering school. The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is also used to measure how well Pre-K programs prepare four-year-old children to be ready for kindergarten, based upon the . The primary purpose of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is to improve the quality of classroom instruction and other services provided to students from birth to 3rd grade.

     

    Students take this assessment three times per year. The first test is taken in the first 30 days of school, the second test is given in January, and the third assessment is given in May.