Discover SchoolCity’s STAAR–aligned content exclusive for Texas

A TEKS–aligned assessment platform for Texas districts

SchoolCity is the home for all your formative assessment needs with TEI types aligned to TEA’s STAAR redesign in Texas. Learn more about how Renaissance’s comprehensive assessment system supports Texas’ assessment needs.

Create

Benefit from a bank of over 70,000 highest-quality TEKS and DOK-tagged assessment items across core subjects with the TX Test Maker Item Bank. Additional item banks include TX Prebuilt Assessments, TX Formative Item Bank and TEKSbank.

Align

Online testing tools, reporting capabilities, automated online accommodations with TestHound integration, STAAR–aligned partial credit scoring, and beyond – all tailored to Texas.

Target

Drive targeted classroom and district instruction with reports aligned to your key questions around student gaps including lead4ward, Texas Accountability projections with TXPRO, and Interim reports.

Simplify

Save student and teacher time with a single platform for TEKS-aligned classroom formative, common benchmark and summative assessments.

Transform your district’s assessment experience for all Texas stakeholders

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Unlock a TEKS-aligned assessment platform for your district

Guide significant structural changes to your platform’s assessment capabilities, online testing tools, automated TestHound accommodations, and more so that every stakeholder can use data to improve instruction and standards proficiency.

Advance data-based conversations with reports

Quickly access data-driven insights with custom-built reports like lead4ward, Interim, and early projections of TEA’s Texas Accountability reporting to answer your specific questions about student learning, progress, and standards proficiency.

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Demystify formative feedback

Take the heavy lifting out of high-impact feedback. Know exactly what’s causing students to struggle and address learning disconnects in the moment with built-in distractor rationales and the inclusion of Demonstrations of Learning (DOL).

Engage students as drivers of their own learning

Develop the right student-friendly reports to help learners understand their own strengths and needs. Offer flexible ways to demonstrate standards proficiency with performance-based assessments including Band, performance, art, and CTE.

Automatic updates to TestHound® accommodations

SchoolCity’s integration with TestHound provides a seamless user experience that allows districts to import accommodations into student profiles, for Student Accommodations updated on a nightly basis and for Special Education accommodations.

Accelerate standards mastery with high-quality STAAR–aligned content built for Texas

SchoolCity’s TX Test Maker Item Bank provides an extensive bank of highest quality TEKS-specific items written in STAAR® format for flexible, standards-aligned assessment creation, including TEI item types.

Customize with additional Texas focused content

TX Prebuilt Assessments

Utilize validated and tested items to create TEKs-specific assessments, including interim and unit-based assessments.

TX Formative Item Bank

TEKS-specific item bank designed to fuel the daily formative assessment process with rigorous content and built-in distractor rationales.

TEKSbank

Built by Region 10 educators, TEKSbank is designed based on in-depth analysis of TEKS, the STAAR released items, and assessment best practices.

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How does schoolcity work?

How Renaissance’s standards-aligned assessment platform works

1

Partner

Meet with our team to create a strategy for meeting your Texas assessment creation, administration, and reporting needs.

2

Assess

Utilize built-for-Texas item banks to administer assessments via paper/pencil, online, or a combination, leveraging any custom-built online testing tools and TestHound automated accommodations. Scan paper/pencil assessments for instant grading.

3

Report

Expedite data-driven decisions with customized reports by assessment, standard, item, and multiple measures, including lead4ward, Interim, and TXPRO reports to immediately surface insights about curriculum, instruction, student supports, equity, and more.

4

Move learning forward

Confidently take the right next steps to advance student learning and accelerate district-wide standards proficiency by using results to create students’ groups for further monitoring and interventions.

Assessments that fit your needs

Answer Key Only

Upload your existing assessments to avoid recreating them in SchoolCity, while also receiving the in-depth standards-based reporting that SchoolCity provides.

Express

Quickly create a paper/pencil multiple choice assessment and scan results for instant grading to take a formative check on student learning.

Performance-Based

Evaluate students’ skills knowledge through practical real-world tasks or projects.

Surveys

Gather data around social-emotional learning, school climate and culture, perceptions, and well-being from students and teachers.

Real stories from educators

Success stories from districts like yours

In Texas’ largest school district, a collaborative partnership and “just right” assessments have elevated data-driven instruction.

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Security and privacy

As of December 2022, SchoolCity has received a SOC2 report from an AICPA auditor.

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Approved by administrators and teachers globally

We researched various platforms to see what was cutting-edge, and what appeared to be next-level. SchoolCity stood out because their team understands that urban districts need customization. It was at that point that we began our beautiful partnership with SchoolCity, and they have not failed us.

Betty Garcia-Hill, Formative Assessment Manager, Houston Independent School District (HISD)

Want to learn more?

A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of SchoolCity and help you decide if it’s the right tool for you and your students.