Assessment: GRADData :

The Graduation-Required Assessments for Diploma (GRAD) are the state tests that fulfill Minnesota’s high school graduation requirement for students who first entered grade 8 in 2005-06 or later. These tests measure student performance on essential skills in Writing, Reading and Mathematics for success in the 21st century. If a student does not satisfy the graduation requirement for an assessment during the first administration, there will be retest opportunities available.

These files contain GRAD results, summarized for each district and school (public and non-public) by grade and subject (writing). Results are disaggregated by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Special Education status, Economic status and Limited English Proficiency status. Average score and counts within each proficiency level are shown for each group.

For each assessment file the “all student group” is filtered at 9 to protect student privacy. The 'filtered' column indicates if the results have been suppressed. In these cases, the average score and counts within each proficiency level will be empty. GRAD data are available in Excel and tab delimited formats. Tab delimited files provide detailed school and district information including demographics of test takers. Excel files show only summary information for a school.