District and School Assessments

AimswebPlus provides an assessment of essential early literacy skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, oral language development, vocabulary development, and reading fluency.  Students are assessed in September/October, December/January, and April.

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The Fastbridge assessment is a computer-adaptive assessment that is administered in the Fall, Winter, and Spring each year measuring student progress and growth in reading and math. This assessment complements state and classroom-level assessments that are used to monitor progress in student learning, inform curriculum development, and guide programming decisions.   

Grade 2 will only complete the math assessment; literacy data is collected through aimswebPlus. 

Fastbridge may also be used as a diagnostic assessment for students in grades K-3 as part of Act 20.

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The Forward Exam is an online assessment administered in the spring of each year.  Students in grades 3 through 8 are given the English language arts and mathematics assessment, students in grades 4 and 8 test in science, and students in grades 4, 8, and 10 take the social studies assessment.

Parents or guardians wishing to excuse their child from participating in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System must place their request in writing to the principal of their child's school.

The Forward Exam will be administered between March 16 and April 24, 2026. 

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The DLM™ assessment measures the academic progress of students with significant cognitive disabilities in the subject areas of ELA and Mathematics at grades 3-11, Science at grades 4 and 8 - 11, and in Social Studies at grades 4, 8, and 10.

Parents or guardians wishing to excuse their child from participating in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System must place their request in writing to the principal of their child's school.

The DLM will be administered between March 16 and April 24, 2026. 

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The PreACT Secure is a summative assessments given to ninth and tenth grade students that is aligned to the ACT and measures student progress toward college and career readiness content areas of English, math, reading, and science.  PreACT Secure is administered in the spring of the school year, online with multiple question types including multiple-choice, constructed response, and technology-enhanced items and is capable of predicting outcomes on the ACT. 

Parents or guardians wishing to excuse their child from participating in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System must place their request in writing to the principal of their child's school.

PreACT Secure will be administered statewide between March 16 and April 24, 2026. The tentative date for testing at Mount Horeb HIgh School is March 17, 2026.

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The ACT is a standard assessment used to help students understand how they can improve their career readiness skills and helps employers determine whether individuals are qualified for positions.

Parents or guardians wishing to excuse their child from participating in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System must place their request in writing to the principal of their child's school.

The ACT will be administered statewide between March 16 and April 24, 2026. The tentative date for testing at Mount Horeb HIgh School is March 17, 2026.

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Wisconsin statute requires that any students graduating from a Wisconsin high school (starting with the class of 2017) "takes a civics test comprised of 100 questions that are identical to the 100 questions that may be asked of an individual during the process of applying for U.S. citizenship by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and the pupil correctly answers at least 65 of those questions" (Wis. Stat. sec. 118.33(1m)(a)1, Section 3266R).  Mount Horeb incorporates this assessment into a student’s freshman year Modern United States History class.  The initial test occurs at the end of September each school year.  Make-up test dates will be provided at the school level as needed.

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ACCESS for ELLs is an annual assessment of the developing social and academic English language proficiency of English learners (ELs) in grades K through 12. This assessment allows educators, students, and families to monitor students’ progress in acquiring academic English in the domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The 2025-26 ACCESS test administration will occur from December 2025 through January 2026. 

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