Assessments and Testing
Assessments
This is a general overview of the assessments students will take PreK-12 at school. If you have any questions about district testing, please reach out to Shannon Molt, Director of Student Services.
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Kansas English Language Proficiency Assessment Screener (KELPA)
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- Grades: K-12
- Testing Window: ongoing
World-class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Alternative Access Screener
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- Grades: K-12
- Testing Window: ongoing
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) History, Geography, and Social Studies (HGSS) Classroom Based Assessment (CBA)
- Subject: History, Geography, and Social Studies
- Grades: 4, 7, 11
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Interim – English Language Arts
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall and spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Interim – Math
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall and spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Interim – Science
- Grades: 5 and 8
- Testing Window: fall and spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Mini – English Language Arts
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Mini – Math
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Mini – Science
- Grades: 5 and 8
- Testing Window: fall
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) General Summative – English Language Arts
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) General Summative – Math
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) General Summative – Science
- Grades: 5, 8, 11
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Dynamic Learning Map (DLM) – English Language Arts
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall and spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Dynamic Learning Map (DLM) – Math
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Grades: 3-8, 10
- Testing Window: fall and spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Dynamic Learning Map (DLM) – Science
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Grades: 5, 8, 11
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Kansas English Language Proficiency Assessment Screener (KELPA)
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- Grades: K-12
- Testing Window: spring
Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) World-class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Alternative Access Screener
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- Grades: K-12
- Testing Window: spring
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Individual Growth and Development Indicators (myIGDIs)
- Subject: Literacy and numeracy
- Ages: 3 and 4 year olds
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
Student Rish Screening Scale – Early Childhood (SRSS-EC)
- Subject: Social/Emotional
- Ages: 3 and 4 year olds
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
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Student Risk Screening Scale – Internalizing, Externalizing (SRSS-IE)
- Subject: social emotional
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Reading – class wide
- Subject: reading diagnostic
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Reading – one-on-one
- Subject: reading literary tasks
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Math – class wide
- Subject: math diagnostic
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Math – one-on-one
- Subject: early numeracy tasks
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
Imagine Learning Language and Literacy
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: literacy
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: ongoing
Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) Alternate Screener
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: literacy
- Grades: K-5
- Testing window: fall, winter, spring
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FastBridge
- FastTrack Reading (aReading and autoReading)
- Grades: 6-12
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
- aMath
- Grades: 9-10
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
- Social, Academic, Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS)
- Grades: 6-12
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) Alternate Screener
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: literacy
- Grade: 8
- Testing window: fall, winter, spring
iReady Reading – class wide
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: reading diagnostic
- Grades: 6-12
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Math – class wide
- Subject: math diagnostic
- Grades: 6-8
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
iReady Math – class wide
- This assessment is not given to each student. Your student’s team will reach out to you if your student qualifies for this assessment.
- Subject: math diagnostic
- Grades: 9-12
- Testing window: fall, winter, and spring
ACT (College Admissions Standardized Test)
- Grades: 11
- Testing window: spring
PreACT 8/9 (College Admissions Standardized Test)
- Grades: 9
- Testing window: fall
ACT Workkeys (College Admissions Standardized Test)
- Grades: 11
- Testing window: fall
Advanced Placement (AP) Tests
- These are elective tests for students
- Grades: 9-12
- Testing window: spring
Preliminary SAT (College Admissions Standardized Test)/National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test (NMSQT)
- These are elective tests for students
- Grades: 10 and 11
- Testing window: fall
- FastTrack Reading (aReading and autoReading)
Testing at MHS
Haleigh Jung, Manhattan High School Testing Coordinator
National Testing
ACT
- Manhattan High School offers one free ACT test during the school-day for 11th grade students. This is on February 24, 2026.
- National Saturday ACT Tests offered at Manhattan High School
- December 13, 2025
- February 14, 2026
- April 11, 2026
- June 13, 2026
- ACT Registration
SAT
- SAT Test Date & Registration
School Day Testing
PSAT/NMSQT
- Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Time: 7:45 AM
- Location: Manhattan High School
- 10th Grade and 11th Grade (by sign up only)
- Cost: $20 (***Financial assistance available for those that qualify.)
- Registration Link: PSAT/NMSQT Registration
- Test Information
- Test Preparation
- Test Accommodations: contact Haleigh Jung
PreACT 8/9 Testing
- Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Time: 7:45 AM
- Location: Manhattan High School
- Grade: All 9th graders
- Cost: FREE
- Registration: MHS will automatically register students
- Test Information
- Test Accommodations: contact Haleigh Jung
ACT WorkKeys
- Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Time: 7:45 AM
- Location: Manhattan High School
- Grade: All 11th graders
- Cost: FREE
- Test Information
- Test Preparation
- Test Accommodations: contact Haleigh Jung
ACT
- Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Time: 7:45 AM
- Location: Manhattan High School
- Grade: All 11th graders
- Cost: FREE
- Test Information
- Test Preparation
- Test Accommodations: contact Haleigh Jung
Advanced Placement (AP)
- Dates: May 4-8 and May 11-15, 2026
- Grades: 9th – 12th graders in AP Courses
- Cost: $105 per exam, $55 per exam for qualifying families
- Test Information
- MHS Exam Payment
- Test Accommodations: contact Haleigh Jung
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