AASA State Testing Information

3/1/2025 

Dear Knight Families 

We want to share important information regarding the upcoming state assessment, AASA, Arizona’s Academic Standards Assessment and AzSCI, Arizona’s Science Assessment.  Arizona public school students in Grades 3rd through high school will take AASA in English Language Arts (Writing and Reading) and Mathematics this spring.  All 3rd graders take the AASA ORF, Oral Reading Fluency assessment.   Additionally, students in 5th and 8th Grade take the AzSCI state assessment.  Assessments serve various purposes dependent upon classroom, district and state level and are used in multiple ways to measure academic success. 

All students will be taking the AASA online.  In order to ensure a successful testing session, we are requesting that students bring headphones or earbuds the day prior to testing.  If your child does not have headphones or earbuds, please let your child’s teacher know as soon as possible.  Also, students are not allowed to have cell phones or smartwatches out during testing.  We are asking that on testing days students leave their phones or smartwatches at home or they will be required to give them to their teacher prior to beginning a testing session. We would like to thank all families in advance for supporting your child during testing.  We ask that you make sure your child goes to bed early the night before testing to be well-rested for testing, has a good breakfast the morning of the test, comes to school on time and gives his or her best effort.  

Our students and teachers have worked extremely hard all year to ensure all students are prepared for AASA. Let's work as a team for success.  Attendance on testing days is critical; we ask that you do not check your child out early on days they are scheduled to test. 

 Knight Parents/Guardians, we also invite you to join us on Wednesday, March 26th for our Testing Night. This will include some information on the state tests, as well as time and supplies to write encouraging notes for your student. Notes will be delivered to teachers so that students have them on their desks on testing days!   Thank you for supporting your child and their school success. 

 Sincerely, 

 Cara Miller & Matthew Gilbert