PSSA - Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, also known as PSSA, measures how well students have achieved in reading
and mathematics according to Pennsylvania’s world-class academic standards. By using these standards, educators, parents
and administrators can evaluate their students’ strengths and weaknesses to increase students’ achievement scores.
According to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, students must be 100% proficient in reading and math by 2014.
The PSSA results allow schools and districts to evaluate their students’ progress to make full proficiency a reality.
Today’s sixth graders will be 11th graders by the year 2014 when full proficiency must be reached.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires states to determine annually whether schools and districts in Pennsylvania
make Adequate Yearly Progress, also known as AYP. The 2008-09 targets were 56% proficient or advanced in math and 63%
proficient or advanced in reading.
2009-2010 PSSA Testing Dates
April 7-16...............Grades 3, 4, 5, 6 PSSA Reading/MathApril 19-23..............Grade 5 PSSA Writing
April 26-30..............Grade 4 PSSA Science
May 3-7...............PSSA Makeup (all subjects)
IMPORTANT: Please try not to plan educational trips, doctor or dental appointments during these dates as all students absent must be given individual make-up tests.
