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District officials outline calendar and platforms for 2025–26 state assessment results distribution
Summary
District Director of Assessment Omar Gonzalez described the district's timeline for post-assessment reports, which platforms will host them, and how campuses and teachers will access student results, including new campus-level tools and a $1,500-per-campus analytics platform paid from campus funds.
Omar Gonzalez, the district's director of assessment, told the Board of Trustees Curriculum and Instruction Committee that the district has a published calendar for post-assessment reporting and that results will be delivered to campus secure folders and to multiple vendor platforms for teacher, parent and student access.
The calendar, Gonzalez said, lays out post-assessment events including receipt of state files, campus distribution and subsequent teacher and parent access. "In it, it outlines key assessment events," he said, and stressed that district staff place results in one secure folder per campus with access limited to principals and designated academic deans.
Why it matters: timely, accurate access to student assessment results drives campus intervention and planning. Gonzalez said the district uses multiple systems so different staff can use data at different levels: Cambium (the state platform), DMACC for campus- and classroom-level outputs and EdSpire (also referred to in the meeting as EDSPIRE) to bring data to the student level and to support teacher-facing analysis.
Gonzalez described the sequence of releases: an initial file limited to overall performance levels arrives from the state, a second "data verification" release is split by campus and uploaded to DMACC and EdSpire, and a final release is published after the state's data-correction window. Teachers will be able to access the first platform-level report roughly two days after district receipt and will gain broader access through DMACC and EdSpire by the next day, Gonzalez said. He added that the district has published a step-by-step video to help teachers access the central reporting system (CRS).
On district uptake and training, Gonzalez said Deans and testing facilitators have been trained and the district is holding additional campus-level trainings through the week. "As a matter of fact, today, we train Martin High School and San Sanchez Ochoa," he said. Gonzalez said all campuses that have begun EdSpire training have responded positively.
Gonzalez also explained differences among tools. "Cambium is the state system as the platform. Then we have DMACC that gives campus results, classroom, state results. And then we have EdSpire that takes it to the student level," he said. He described EdSpire as providing item- and student-level detail, including a distractor analysis and prescriptive tutoring guidance that breaks student answers down by reporting category.
Costs and local funding: the committee asked about price and procurement. Gonzalez said the student-level analytics platform costs about $1,500 per campus and that campuses purchased licenses using their campus funds. "From their monies," he said when asked whether the purchases came from local campus budgets.
Questions and follow-up: trustees and the board chair asked whether all three platforms were being used consistently; Gonzalez said the district is implementing all three and that DMACC remains the core tool for test administration while EdSpire supports teacher-level diagnostic work. He said the district will continue training and that campus principals and deans are receiving direct outreach when results are placed in folders.
What the committee did: the session was a presentation and discussion; no vote or formal action was taken. Gonzalez said the district will continue scheduled trainings and publish the reporting schedule to principals and staff.
