Waukegan CUSD 60 · IL
What matters most here
The earliest test that affects placement is Early entrance to kindergarten (acceleration policy exception), starting in Kindergarten.
Waukegan CUSD 60 names the tests that affect placement but doesn't publish the score you need. That gap is theirs, not ours.
What schools usually do with these scores
- Grouping. Screener results sort kids into small skill groups for reading and math. Groups are re-dealt after each testing window — fall, winter, spring — so a score follows your kid for about a trimester, not a year.
- Extra help and enrichment. Kids below benchmark usually get small-group support, checked every week or two. Kids far above it are the pool schools draw on for enrichment.
- Placement. Advanced-track decisions almost never hang on one test. Districts combine an ability test, an achievement measure, and teacher input into a matrix — which is why each score below earns its keep.
The path to the advanced track
- Kindergarten · Early entrance to kindergarten
- 2 and 5 · CogAT 7
- 2–5 · NWEA MAP Growth
- 6–8 · Middle school honors and accelerated course placement
Your kid's grade
Pick a grade — the page narrows to what your kid actually takes.
What 2nd Grade takes
4 of Waukegan CUSD 60's 10 assessments apply to 2nd Grade. Tap a test for what it measures and why it matters.
Got a score report?
Your kid's scores come home without context. Check one against the published bar — free, no account.
Not every test here has a published benchmark — where there isn't one, we won't invent a bar. And one score is one data point: schools decide from several measures across the year, plus the teacher's judgment.