Students at Luther Jackson are assessed in many areas throughout the year. Please keep these general points in mind when reviewing information about test requirements at specific grade levels:

• Assessments are part of the teaching and learning process. Teachers give assessments to students on an ongoing basis to check for understanding and to gather information about students' knowledge or skills.
• Students who are being reviewed for or are enrolled in special services may have further testing expectations as part of these services or may be eligible for alternative or substitute assessments.
• Students in certain schools may be asked to take part in additional assessments as part of federal, state, or local data collection, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress Assessment (NAEP). 
• Parents and guardians should contact their children's schools with any testing questions or for additional information about how schools and teachers use test results to support student success.

Some of the Virginia and Fairfax County assessments that our students take are:

• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) - any student who does not have a CogAT score on file
• Local Alternative Assessments (LAA) - to measure knowledge of grade level Social Studies standards in place of the SOL test
• Math Inventory - for students below fall benchmark or in a math intervention course
• Reading Inventory - for students below fall benchmark
• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener - to measure development of social-emotional learning, relationships, and well-being
• Virginia Growth Assessment (VGA) - to measure progress in grade level content standards throughout the year
• WIDA ACCESS for ELLS - to measure annual English language proficiency and progress for English language learners in compliance with federal law

For more information about these and other assessments, please visit the resources linked below.