Tests for English learners and world-language students.
Annual assessment of English language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing for students identified as English learners in grades K-12.
Tests that do not fit the buckets above.
STAAR Reading Language Arts is the spring summative reading and writing test for grades 3 through 5. Students answer multiple-choice and short-constructed-response items aligned to the TEKS for ELAR.
STAAR Reading Language Arts is the spring summative test for middle-grade ELAR. Students answer multiple-choice, constructed-response, and extended-constructed-response items aligned to the TEKS.
STAAR Mathematics is the spring summative math test for grades 3 through 5, aligned to the TEKS for math. Items include multiple-choice, gridded responses, and drag-and-drop.
STAAR Mathematics is the spring summative math test for grades 6 through 8, aligned to the TEKS for math.
STAAR Science is the grade 5 spring science test, aligned to the TEKS for science. Students show what they know across matter and energy, force and motion, Earth and space, and organisms.
STAAR Science is the grade 8 spring science test, aligned to the TEKS for science.
STAAR Social Studies is the grade 8 spring social studies test, aligned to the TEKS for grade 8 US history through Reconstruction.
End-of-course exam taken at the completion of Algebra I, typically grade 8 or 9. Students must pass all five STAAR EOCs to graduate from a Texas public high school.
End-of-course exam taken at the completion of Biology, typically grade 9 or 10.
End-of-course exam in reading and writing taken at the completion of English I, typically grade 9.
End-of-course exam in reading and writing taken at the completion of English II, typically grade 10.
End-of-course exam taken at the completion of US History, typically grade 11.
Federally administered sample-based assessment in reading, mathematics, science, writing, and other subjects. NAEP results inform state-by-state comparisons rather than individual student or school accountability.