School-wide Testing Day
March 19, 2025 -SAT for Juniors
Georgia Milestones End of Course Assessments
The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state-adopted content standards in the core content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. In high school, students are assessed in the following courses: Biology, Coordinate Algebra, US History, and American Literature. Features of the Georgia Milestone Assessment System include:
- open-ended (constructed-response) items in language arts and mathematics (all grades and courses);
- a writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the language arts assessment;
- norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses, to complement the criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison.
Use the Georgia Experience Online for practice
This practice site is a chance for students to learn more about the structure and content of the Georgia Milestones Assessments, experience online testing, and practice using online tools. Parents and educators are also welcome to explore this site along with the Georgia Department of Education website which provides further information.
2023-2024 End of Course Assessment Guides
- US History Assessment Guide
- Biology Assessment Guide
- American Literature Assessment Guide
- Coordinate Algebra Assessment Guide
Measures of Academic Progress
The DeKalb County School District (DCSD) utilizes the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) as a universal screener three times a year - Fall, Winter, and Spring. Students in grades 9 and 10 will take the MAP assessment
End of Pathway Assessment (EOPA)
End-of-Pathway Assessments (EOPAs) are assessments that students take in the third-level class of most CTAE pathways. The State of Georgia requires these assessments in response to Perkins IV Legislation, which dictates that states must implement a valid and reliable assessment model linked directly to industry standards. Many of these assessments provide industry-recognized credentials that students can use to show their knowledge and/or skills in a particular career field
Testing Begins:Tuesday, April 29, 2025
ACCESS for English Learners
ACCESS for ELLs is administered, annually, to all English learners in Georgia. ACCESS for ELLs is a standards-based, criterion-referenced English language proficiency test designed to measure English learners’ social and academic proficiency in English. It assesses social and instructional English as well as the language associated with language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies within the school context across the four language domains
Georgia Alternate Assessment
The Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA) 2.0 is comprised of standardized performance tasks and is intended to provide tiered participation within the assessment for students working at various levels of complexity. The GAA 2.0 is designed to measure the degree to which students with significant cognitive disabilities have mastered alternate achievement standards in the core content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
Advanced Placement Exams
AP Exams are standardized exams designed to measure how well you’ve mastered the content and skills of a specific AP course.