Test Scores
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.
