Dear Parent/Guardian:

Each year, students in grades 3 through 8 participate in the New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS). Please follow the link below for the 2021 assessment window. Spring 2022 Assessment. We will begin the NHSAS the week of May 9th.

Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Section 1111(b)(2) and New Hampshire law, RSA 193-C:6 requires each school district in the State to implement a set of high-quality academic assessments that includes, at a minimum, assessments in mathematics, reading/language arts and science to be administered in each of grades 3-8 and not less than once during grades 10-12; and in science not less than once during grades 3-5, grades 6- 9, and grades 10-12.

Furthermore, ESSA sections 1111(b)(2)(B) require State assessments to be the “same academic assessments used to measure the achievement of all public elementary school and secondary school students in the State,” and provide for the participation in such assessments to all students.

State assessments are an essential part of a student’s core educational program. They provide an evaluation of student mastery of content and skills in various academic areas, serve as one tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school and be college- and career ready, and help inform future instruction in the classroom. Along with student work on classroom assignments, projects, essays, and local assessments, state assessment results give teachers and you, the parents, valuable information about where students are on their path toward academic success.

If you choose to exempt your student from the state assessment (permitted in RSA 193-C:6), you must submit a form to the school the student attends. Please contact your child’s school to receive a copy of the exemption form. Please understand that if you choose to exempt your student from the assessment, no scores or summary of individual student performance, based on the statewide assessment, will be provided to you or your student.

Student results for the NH SAS (reading/writing, mathematics and science) are generally available within 10 days upon the student completing the test. Schools will send a student’s Individual Score Report home as soon as possible after receiving results, and certainly before the end of the school year.

Average testing times:

Grades 3 to 8

ELA/Writing/Reading/Mathematics - 2 hours each

Grades 5 and 8

Science - 2 hours

Parents may access training tests for the NH SAS by going to the portal at https://nh.portal.airast.org/training-tests.stml.

If you have any questions related to this assessment administration, you may contact the school. Thank you for supporting your student and encouraging him/her to do his/her best during this assessment administration.

Sincerely,

Susan Schroeter

Principal

Unity Elementary School

CAMP 2022

NHSAS Assessments

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