Via my public records request:

Attached please find documents responsive to your public records request dated December 4, 2024.

The attached reports were/are used by MMSD for tracking completion totals of FastBridge assessments during the fall of 2024. This is the closest existing artifact that we have that approximates what you asked for. Below is a little bit more detail from our Data Team about the provided data, responding to the two items requested:

1. Please provide the number of students by school and total across the district that took the FAST (Formative Assessment System for Teachers) from 1 September, 2024 to 1 December 2024.

The Data Team would assume this to mean the counts of students by school and total across the MMSD for each of the FastBridge universal screeners in use by MMSD for 2024-2025 for the fall administration only. That would then be:

Grades K-1:FastBridge earlyReading (English: all instructional programs; Spanish for DLI/DBE), earlyMath

Grades 2-5: FastBridge CBMReading (English: all instructional programs; Spanish for DLI/DBE), CBMMath Automaticity, aMath

The attached report contains the majority of the requested information and is used by MMSD staff. It does not, however, allow for the calculation of students taking these assessments at a total district level, because students take multiple FastBridge assessments. Even the school totals are not necessarily counts of students who have taken the assessments, but rather, total counts of assessments taken. At a school and grade and assessment level, however, we can be fairly certain that each total at that level is a count of students.

2. Please provide the number of students by school and total across the district that took AIMSweb screening from 1 September, 2024 to 1 December 2024.

MMSD did not administer any aimswebPlus assessments during the Fall window. The requirement to administer aimswebPlus literacy screeners in grades K-3 begins in winter and for 4K begins in the spring. Since the assessment will not be administered until the winter administration, MMSD does not currently have participation data in these assessments for your specified timeframe.

With the delivery of this material, MMSD considers your request closed.

Thank you.

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