Under the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) Kentucky requires national norm referenced testing in reading, language arts and mathematics for students exiting primary (third graders), grade 6 and grade 9. A national norm referenced test allows comparisons between the performance of Kentucky students and the performance of students across the country. The test used to meet this requirement is the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS).
The files below contain information about the performance of Kentucky's schools and school districts on the Spring 2005 administration of the CTBS/5. If you would like to view a file, please click on the link and download the file to your hard drive. The software you will need to view each of the files is listed below:
● (pdf ) Acrobat Reader (click here to download Acrobat Reader 7.0 for free)
● (xls) Microsoft Excel, Access or other database program