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Olathe district presents 2025 assessment snapshot as state cut scores change

Olathe Board of Education · December 5, 2025
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Summary

District assessment leaders described a balanced assessment system and new Kansas performance descriptors and cut scores, presented 2024–25 comparisons, subgroup breakdowns, ACT/AP participation, and nearly 9,900 college credit hours earned by students last year.

Olathe Public Schools presented a 2025 snapshot of district assessment results and changes to statewide performance descriptors at the board's December meeting.

Doctor Veach, who led the data briefing, said the district uses a balanced assessment system composed of screeners, common formative assessments, quarterly math benchmarks and summative measures, and that 2025 marks a new baseline because the Kansas Assessment Program introduced vertical performance‑level descriptors and new cut scores this year. He cautioned that…

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