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ELPAC

Assessment Calendar 2024-25

Initial ELPAC testing occurs throughout the year. Summative ELPAC is administered February through May.

Month

Window

Audience

Assessment

August

8/8-9/30

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)

8/8-8/30

1-5

Star (Early Literacy, Reading, and Math)

8/12-9/30

6-12

Star (Reading and Math)

September

8/8-9/30

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)

8/12-9/30

6-12

Star (Reading and Math)

8/12-9/30

Dist PBIS

District Systems Fidelity Inventory (DFSI) 

Early Fall

K-12

ELPAC IABs: TBD

October

10/21-11/22

11

ELA Interim: Listen/Interpret (FIAB)

10/21-11/22

11

Math Interim: TBD

10/21-11/1

1-5

Star (Early Literacy, Reading, and Math)

10/21-11/1

3-12

Fall Panorama Survey (students, staff & parents)

10/21-11/1

3-5 

ELA Interim: Read Literary Text (IAB)

November

11/4-11/22

3-5

Math Interim: Numbers & Operations in Base Ten (IAB)

11/4-11/22

6-8

ELA Interim Assessment: Listen/Interpret (FIAB)



December

12/2-12/19

6-8

ELA Interim Assessment: Read Literary Text (IAB)

12/2-12/19

3-5

ELA Interim Assessment: Read Informational Text (IAB)

12/2-12/19

7

Math Interim: Number (Sense) System (IAB)

12/2-12/19

8

Math Interim: Proportional Relationships, Lines, and Linear Equations (FIAB)

12/10-1/15

6-8

Star (Reading and Math)

12/9-12/19

6

Math Interim: Number (Sense) System (IAB)



January

1/6-2/21

11

ELA Interim: Read Informational Text (IAB)

1/6-2/21

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)

12/10-1/15

6-8

Star (Reading and Math)

1/8-2/28

9-12

Star (Reading and Math)

Early January

K-12

ELPAC IABs: TBD

1/13-2/7

6-8

ELA Interim: Read Informational Text (IAB)


February

2/3-5/29

K-12

ELPAC Summative Testing (State window opens; high school begins)

1/8-2/28

9-12

Star (Reading and Math)

1/6-2/21

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)

2/3-3/7

K-12

Hanover LCAP Survey (students, staff & parents)

2/3-2/21

8

Math Interim: Expressions & Equations 1 (IAB)

2/10-2/21

1-5

Star (Early Literacy, Reading, and Math)

2/11-2/28

3-5

ELA Interim: Listen/Interpret (FIAB)

2/11-2/28

11

ELA Interim: Read Literary Text (IAB)

2/11-2/28

11

Math Interim: Algebra and Functions I or II


March

2/3-5/29

K-12

ELPAC Summative Testing (District window opens for elementary and middle schools)

3/3-3/14

3-5

Math Interim: Number & Operations-Fractions (IAB)

3/10-3/28

6

Math Interim: Expressions & Equations (IAB)

3/24-4/4

7

Math Interim: Expressions & Equations (IAB) (NS practice)


April

2/3-5/29

K-12

ELPAC Summative Testing

4/1-4/30

School

DPBIST

PBIS Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)

District Systems Fidelity Inventory (DSFI)

4/7-4/25

9-10

End of Year Interims: ELA, Math & Science (ICA/IAB)

4/7-5/15

3-8, 11

CAASPP Summative Assessments (SBAC and CAST)

4/21-5/29

6-12

Star (Early Literacy, Reading, and Math)

4/7-5/29

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)


May

2/3-5/29

K-12

ELPAC Summative Testing

4/7-5/15

3-8, 11

CAASPP Summative Assessments (SBAC and CAST)

5/19-5/29

3-12

Spring Panorama Survey (students, staff & parents)

4/7-5/29

1-5

DIBELS Testing through Amplify mClass (K optional)

5/12-5/29

1-5

Star (Early Literacy, Reading, and Math)

Initial ELPAC testing occurs throughout the year. Summative ELPAC is administered February through May.

CAST (Science) IABs will be piloted in grades 5, 8, and high school; they will be formally added to the assessment calendar next year.