Our Curriculum

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• For Students in 3K/JK

  We give ongoing developmentally appropriate classroom assessments to measure fine and gross motor skills, phonemic awareness, rhyming skills, letter identification, letter/sound correspondence, concepts of print, 1:1 correspondence, patterning, and rote counting. Each trimester in Junior Kindergarten, we give a comprehensive assessment to determine student progress prior to Parent-Teacher Conferences. We also provide feedback to parents on their child's social-emotional and spiritual development.

• For Students in SK-2nd Grades

  All SK through 2nd Grade students participate in benchmark assessments throughout the year in three areas—math, reading, and writing. We use math benchmark assessments, DRA2, and writing prompts to measure progress during the school year and from year to year.
  
  

  To help us measure students' reasoning ability, we administer the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) each spring. When compared to other classroom and benchmark assessments, the NNAT guides individual student instruction and gifted identification.

• For Students in 3rd-6th Grades

  All 3rd through 6th grade students also participate in benchmark assessments in math, reading, and writing. Math benchmark assessments, Teachers' College Assessment, and Central writing prompts help teachers gauge student progress.
  
  

  As an outside measure of student progress, we annually administer the ERB Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP5). The CTP5 is a combination of achievement and reasoning tests and is widely recognized as the most rigorous and respected standardized test. View more details on how Central students compare using this data.