Just a reminder that uniforms are REQUIRED EVERY DAY! On Fridays, scholars are welcome to dress down for a $1.00 donation. All dress down funds are used to support field trips.

Hello Dragon Families,

The Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions for each student. As a student answers correctly, the questions get more difficult. As a student answers incorrectly, the questions get easier. This adaptability allows the Diagnostic to identify the strengths and opportunities for growth of each student.

The purpose of the Diagnostic is not to give your student a grade, but instead to determine how best to support their learning. It will help your student’s teacher(s) determine their needs, personalize their learning, and monitor progress throughout the year.

This situation can happen, and teachers and schools have many strategies and programs to help accelerate your student’s learning. Having this information can help you, your student, and their teachers have the right conversations to make the needed progress.

A lower score does not mean your student did not learn or lost skills. Scores can be affected by things like stress, distraction, taking the Diagnostic in a different place, and receiving help. This can be particularly common when students are learning in different environments and under unique circumstances. Teachers take this into account and use the data from the Diagnostic as one of many tools to understand your student’s unique needs and progress.

• Discuss these results with your student. Celebrate their strengths and progress, and collaborate with them on planning how they will reach their goals.

• Reach out to your student’s teacher to get more ideas and resources to support your student in specific domains and/or skills.

• If your student uses i-Ready Personalized Instruction, review their progress on the student dashboard.

We use this data to support your scholar for the remainder of this year and going into next year.

Hello Desert Sky Families,

It's May, yay! As we wrap up the school year, we will also be finishing our DIBELS benchmark #3 for our K-3 scholars this month, as well as i-Ready Diagnostic #3. Here are the important testing dates:

Our kinder through 3rd grade scholars will be tested in the areas of phonological/phonemic awareness, basic reading and spelling skills, reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Our kinder through 8th grade scholars will be tested in the areas of math and reading. This is a computer-based assessment.

Your scholars have put in so much effort and hard work this year. I am so grateful to work in partnership with the Desert Sky community, and look forward to all the future has to bring!

Student Enrollment: How many scholars are currently enrolled at Desert Sky.

Average Daily Attendance: The average percentage of scholars who attend school on a daily basis.

Student Persistence: The percentage of scholars who have stayed with Desert Sky since the beginning of the school year.

Staff Retention: The percentage of teachers and staff who have stayed with Desert Sky since the beginning of the school year.

Interim Data: The percentage of how many 3rd-8th grade scholars tested proficient or highly proficient on the interim assessments.

i-Ready Data: The average annual growth for a scholar at this grade and baseline placement level.

Here is AMS Desert Sky's up-to-date data.