Greetings Westerly Creek 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade Families,
We will begin the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments on April 7, 2025. These assessments focus on the knowledge and skills our kids need for success in our global economy, including skills such as analytical thinking and the ability to solve complex problems. The CMAS assessments focus on three different content areas depending upon the grade your child is in:
English Language Arts (ELA) and Math - 3rd, 4th, 5th grade
Science - 5th grade
We want to provide parents and families with information to support student success during this time. These assessments will give our teachers critical information to help our students be on track for college and career readiness and help us understand whether our students have the necessary skills to succeed after high school.
Schedule: The schedule below was created to communicate to you when the CMAS assessments are occurring. We ask parents and families to ensure their children get plenty of sleep and a healthy breakfast every day, but especially on assessment days. In addition, if there are doctors appointments or other appointments that need to be made, we hope this schedule will help you to make those appointments on non-assessment days. Please be sure students arrive at school on time as we begin testing at the beginning of the day. Once testing has started, any late students will not be allowed to start the test at that time. Tardy students will have to wait in the office until testing is over and then will need to take a make-up test at a later time.
Make-Ups: In the event that your child has to miss a test session, they will have to make up the test another time and will be pulled during their instructional time to do so. To prevent disruption, please make sure that your child is at school every day and limit their absences to only when they are sick. Please let the school know in advance if you anticipate an absence during testing.
Check out the resources available to families to help support your student(s) with CMAS testing at https://coassessments.com/practice-resources/.
If you would like to opt your student out of CMAS this year, you can do so on the parent portal up until February 27, 2028. We can accept the paper version of the opt-out form after that date.
Parent Portal Guide PDF (Spanish)