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Student Achievement Assessment

Rancho Solano uses the Stanford Achievement Test to provide information about a student's achievement in core academic courses. The academic areas include reading vocabulary and comprehension, mathematics problem solving, and language.

Two scores that can help you understand a student's performance are percentile rank and stanine scores. Percentile ranks provide a comparison of a student's performance to that of a national sample of students in the same grade. Percentile ranks near 50 indicate that a child's performance is about average when compared to that of student's in the same grade. A percentile rank above 76 indicates that a student's performance is above average. A percentile rank below 24 indicates that a child's performance is below average.

Stanine scores provide similar information. A stanine of 1,2, or 3 suggests that a child is performing below average. Stanines of 4, 5, and 6 indicate that a child is demonstrating average performance. A stanine of 7,8or 9 indicates above average performance.

- Provided by Arizona Department of Education,
"Understanding Tests Results, Arizona Student Achievement Program"

Rancho Solano takes pride in the fact that our students rank far above the national and state averages in standardized tests results.