The mission of the Office of Assessment and Standards is to promote student success in obtaining the qualities of a College- and Career-Ready student, as outlined in the Profile of the SC Graduate, through the development and support of rigorous academic standards to inform instruction and high-quality assessments that provide reliable information used to draw valid conclusions about student performance.

Testing Programs and Assessment Information

• ACCESS for ELLs® and Alternate ACCESS for ELLs®
• Accommodations and Customized Forms
• Adoption List of State-Approved "Formative" (Interim) Assessments
• College Entrance Exams
• End-of-Course Examination Program (EOCEP)
• Gifted and Talented Assessment Program for Grade 2
• Grade 10 Assessments
• Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
• Lexile® and Quantile® Measures in South Carolina
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Prekindergarten Readiness Assessments
• South Carolina Alternate Assessments (SC-Alt)
• South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY)
• South Carolina Junior Scholars Program
• South Carolina Performance Tasks
• Student and Parent Resources
• Test Security
• Testing Students with Disabilities
• The South Carolina Career Ready Test and Alternate Career Readiness Assessments