We deliver a premier educational program dedicated to developing the whole child. We provide students with personalized academic and extracurricular opportunities while increasing student learning.

We ensure research-based instructional practices are implemented in every classroom utilizing access to professional growth and collaboration opportunities to reflect on and improve our practices.

There are four learning goals set by the state of Washington. These four goals connect all of the subject area standards across all grade levels. The goals are:

• Read with comprehension, write effectively, and communicate successfully in a variety of ways and settings and with a variety of audiences;

• Know and apply the core concepts and principles of mathematics; social, physical, and life sciences; civics and history, including different cultures and participation in representative government; geography; arts; and health and fitness;

• Think analytically, logically, and creatively, and to integrate technology literacy and fluency as well as different experiences and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and solve problems; and

• Understand the importance of work and finance and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect future career and educational opportunities.

Basic education in Washington state is defined by the Legislature (RCW 28A.150.210). As required by state law, OSPI develops the state's learning standards (RCW 28A.655.070) and oversees the assessment of the learning standards for state and federal accountability purposes. Learning standards define what all students need to know and be able to do at each grade level.

The learning standards are developed through collaborative, public processes led by curriculum associations across the state and nationwide. The learning standards incorporate the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics.

The Council of Great City Schools developed roadmaps to help parents learn about the expectations for literacy and math from kindergarten through high school.

The Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) maintains demographic and test score data for every district and school in the state. Below, we have provided you with the OSPI report card information for the Ridgefield School District as a whole.  SBA (Smarter Balanced Assessment)

 i-Ready® Diagnostic & Instruction is an innovative adaptive assessment and engaging personalized instruction program for reading and math. 
i-Ready helps our teachers assess the needs of each and every student in their class while monitoring progress throughout the school year. It also provides differentiated, individualized online and classroom instruction based on the skills that each student needs.

i-Ready Diagnostic is given at least two times during the school year: at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year.  A winter assessment window is available for those staff members that want an additional checkpoint. The results of the adaptive assessment provide teachers with an instructional course of action personalized for each student.

Adaptive Assessment

• Designed for students to get about 50% correct and 50% incorrect and will find a “just right” placement level for reading and/or mathematics for each student in the quickest, most efficient way possible.

• Helpful in showing what your child “can do” and what “the next steps for instruction” will be, individualizing instruction for each student.

We would like to enlist your assistance in preparing your child for these assessments. 

Encourage Your Child

• Eat a good breakfast and be rested for the day of the assessment

• Try their best on each question and try not to rush

• Try not to worry about questions they do not know—remind them that it is expected they will get about half of the questions correct

• Take “breaks” and have fun with the short “game breaks” that are integrated into the assessment

• Have paper and pencil handy for math questions

• Be respectful of other students who take longer to finish

If you have any questions about iReady Diagnostic & Instruction, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher directly. You can also learn more about i-Ready by visiting www.i-ready.com/tour.