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Georgia Student Assessment Program

The purposes of the Georgia Student Assessment Program are to measure student achievement of the state mandated curriculum, to identify students failing to achieve mastery of content, to provide teachers with diagnostic information, and to assist school systems in identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to establish priorities in planning educational programs.

The assessment program includes customized criterion-referenced tests at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; and the National Assessment of Educational Progress in grades 4, 8 and 12. These mandatory state assessments include the Primary Assessments as well as Other Assessments.

Primary Assessments

• Georgia Milestones
  
  

Other Assessments

• ACCESS for ELLs
• Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS)
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

CANDLER COUNTY SCHOOLS STATE TESTING DATES 

 See Parent Involvement Calendar for Testing Dates.

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