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Greenwich schools add middle-school science benchmark, slim down end-of-year tests
Summary
Superintendent’s staff presented the 2025–26 assessment calendar to the Greenwich Board of Education, announcing a new benchmark for middle-school science and keeping an overall strategy of fewer, more actionable assessments to protect instructional time.
The Greenwich Board of Education heard an update on the 2025–26 assessment calendar at its Sept. 11 meeting, including one new test for middle-school science and continued reductions to overlapping end-of-year assessments.
District assessment lead Mr. Unito told the board the calendar “remains largely unchanged from last year” but noted one explicit addition: “the inner orbit assessments” will be fully implemented in grades 6–8 at the beginning, middle and end of the year (except at the end of eighth grade because students take the NGSS assessment). Unito said…
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