ODE requires all districts and schools to adopt policies and procedures for annually assessing the reading skills of each student in grades K-3. These diagnostic assessments for the Third Grade Reading Guarantee must be administered by September 30.

Columbus City Schools uses the KRA-R (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment - Revised, Language and Literacy Component) for Kindergarten, and the i-Ready Reading assessment for grades 1, 2, and 3. The results of these reading diagnostic tests determine whether a child is considered on-track or not on-track in reading.

If a student enrolls in your building after September 30, he/she must be administered a reading diagnostic assessment within 30 days, if one was not already administered at their previous school. You should see if you can locate the diagnostic score from the previous school before testing the student.

Grade	Enrollment Status	Assessment Name

Grade	Enrollment Status	Assessment Name
Kindergarten	Enrollment start date is from start of school through November 1, and not retained from previous year.	Kindergarten Readiness Assessment - Revised (KRA-R), Language & Literacy
Kindergarten	Student has been retained from previous year	i-Ready Reading BOY
Kindergarten	Enrolled After November 1	i-Ready Reading BOY
Grades 1, 2 and 3	All students	i-Ready Reading BOY

Third-Grade On-Track Cut Scores

School Year 2023-2024

Grade	Reading Diagnostic	Cut Score	Notes
Kindergarten	KRA - R, Language & Literacy	263+	The only exception to the KRA-R assessment is retained kindergartners. These students must be administered the i-Ready Reading BOY assessment. The KRA-R Assessment Window ends on November 1. All domains must be tested within the first twenty instructional days of the school year.
Kindergarten	i-Ready	332	Only used for retained students and/or students who enroll after November 1
1st grade	i-Ready	378
2nd grade	i-Ready	440
3rd grade	i-Ready	495	OST Compliance - In addition to meeting the 3GRG On-Track scores for the reading diagnostic assessment, grade 3 students must also score 700 or above overall and 50 or above on the reading subscore of the fall OST ELA assessment to retain their on-track status. Students not meeting these requirements will be placed on a Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plan for the rest of the school year. The State Board of Education has voted to set the promotion score of the grade 3 Ohio’s State Test in English Language Arts at 690 for the 2023-2024 school year. Any student who scores 690 or higher on the English language arts scaled score will be eligible for promotion at the end of the year. In addition, the Ohio Department of Education has set the reading subscore alternative promotion score for the grade 3 English language arts test at 48 for the 2023-2024 school year. Any student who scores 48 or higher on the reading subscore will be eligible for promotion at the end of the year, even if the student scores below 690 on the English language arts test.

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Identifying Students NOT On Track

Third-Grade On-Track Cut Scores