The major responsibilities of Research and Evaluation include assessment, support for instruction, and pupil accounting.  The office designs and implements systems and procedures to assess student academic achievement, evaluates school program effectiveness, and monitors pupil accounting functions.

The staff coordinates and executes the state mandated testing programs as well as the district-wide achievement and aptitude tests for placement of the academically gifted students.  Major testing programs include PACT, HSAP, EOCEP, TerraNova, and RAVEN.

To support instruction, our office generates special reports, provides test analysis workshops, enhances the capacity of the district-adopted diagnostic assessment tool, and evaluates the effectiveness of different instructional programs and initiatives.  In addition to support for instruction, the office monitors the pupil accounting system to produce reports on grade retention, student and teacher attendance, suspension, and enrollment projections.