4th & 5th Grade Families,

If your child completed the ELA & Math PARCC Assessments during the 2018 - 2019 school year, you should receive copies of their assessment reports in this week's Wednesday folder.  These reports detail your child's score and performance level, on a scale of 1 to 5. The ELA & Math assessments are a part of the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP). MCAP provides information to educators, parents and the public on student progress towards proficiency on the Maryland state content standards.

For the English Language Arts and Literacy assessment, students read literary and informational passages from published texts (fiction and nonfiction) as well as engage in multi-media such as video or audio pieces. Students demonstrate their reading comprehension through written responses as well as demonstrating their knowledge of the conventions of English.

For mathematics, students solve multi-step problems that require reasoning and address real-world situations. This type of problem solving requires students to reason mathematically, and make sense of quantities and their relationships in order to solve real-world problems, and show their understanding.

For more information regarding the PARCC assessment, please visit:  https://www.hcpss.org/academics/testing/parcc/.

If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher or our school testing coordinators, Mrs. Quirk (sophia_quirk@hcpss.org) and Mrs. Townsend (ashleigh_townsend@hcpss.org).

Sincerely,

Denise Lancaster, Principal

Sophia Quirk, Assistant Principal

Ashleigh Townsend, Assistant Principal