Dropout Prevention and Recovery Assessments

Community schools that serve a majority of their students through dropout prevention and recovery programs must prepare students to meet the same requirements as students in other traditional public school districts. Dropout prevention and recovery schools must also administer vendor assessments in English language arts and mathematics twice per year to generate student growth reports per state law. Dropout prevention and recovery schools must test all students ages 14-21 who enroll at the beginning of the school year within the first few weeks. Students who enroll later in the year must test immediately upon entry into the dropout prevention and recovery program.​

Renaissance Star Reading and Star Math Assessments

Star Reading and Star Math Assessments are each given in 2 administrations: 1 Pre-Test, 1 Post-Test. Effective December 1, 2025, there are to be 13 weeks between the first and second Star test administration. Once enrolled, a student should be administered Test 1. On the first day of the 13^th week, the student is eligible to take the second test.

For students who have withdrawn and returned, there needs to be 13 weeks between the two administrations. Do not create a second file for this student.

The test can be administered year-round. There are no testing date windows.

How Assessments Connect to Ohio School Report Cards

Ohio Revised Code 3314.017 requires the Department to create a report card for each Dropout Prevention and Recovery School. Ohio’s DPR report cards provide alternative ratings for community schools that serve a majority of their students through dropout prevention and recovery programs. Dropout prevention and recover schools receive an overall rating and star ratings for four components:

• Achievement
• Progress
• Gap Closing
• Graduation

30% of the overall rating is based on the Progress measure, which assesses growth in student achievement in reading and mathematics using the Renaissance Star Reading and Math assessments. For more details, including the technical documents for rating progress and for measuring growth, please visit the Dropout Prevention and Recovery Report Cards webpage.

Star Assessment resources

Please refer to the attached guide for instructions to log into Renaissance-U.

• Ohio DPR Support and Troubleshooting Resource
• Renaissance-U Access for DPR Schools
• ​Star Test Administration Manuals: Star Reading and Star Math
• Historical Extract Directions
• Updating SSIDs for Star Renaissance Assessments
• Student Management and Class Enrollment Guide
• Requesting Student Data Transfers and Importing Transferred Data
• Transferring Student Data from Site to Site

Open Office Hours

Upcoming OFFICE HOURS

• February 18: Ready and Using STAR Reports | Registration
• April 15: Topic TBD | Registration
• May 13: End of Year Wrap-Up | Registration

Previous Office Hours

• Reading the Bi-Weekly Report and Resolving SSID/DOB Issues
  • Slides
  • STAR Reports Overview

Contact Information

• For Star Reading and Star Math test administration inquiries: starohio@renaissance.com or 1-800-338-4204
• For questions specific to Dropout Prevention and Recovery program testing requirements contact: dropoutrecovery@education.ohio.gov
• DEW Office of Assessment contact: Beth Lewis

Last Modified: 2/5/2026 12:03:38 PM

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