Standardized tests are only one small tool for measuring student learning and planning effective instruction. Such tests do, however, provide some external validation of program effectiveness. They also all us to compare our students' progress with students across the nation in public and private schools.

Students in fourth and seventh grades take the Washington state assessment, Measurements of Student Progress. The results help us measure our effectiveness in teaching to the Washington state curriculum standards in reading, writing, and mathematics.

The Spring 2011 scores below represent the percentage of ASB students who met or exceeded the standard on each test listed below.

GRADE	READING	WRITING	MATH
Fourth	91.7%	98.3%	83%
Seventh	87.7%	98.2%	89.5%

Students in grades 1-3, 5-6, and 8 take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, an achievement test. This national test helps us monitor student learning and evaluate programs within the school.

The 2011 scores shown below are national percentile rankings (NPR). These rankings show the rankings of each class as a group. For example, the NPR of 90 for the 1st grade reading total means that the first grade class scored better on the reading items than 90% of the other classes across the nations that took the test in the spring of 1st grade. It is NOT an average score of students in that class.

GRADE	READING	LANGUAGE	MATH
First	90%	87%	81%
Second	84%	81%	79%
Third	85%	86%	83%
Fifth	73%	80%	74%
Sixth	85%	76%	74%
Eighth	85%	82%	84%