Complete Interim Assessment Hand Scoring

Email Update, June 23, 2025

Dear LEA CAASPP Coordinator or LEA ELPAC Coordinator:

The 2024–25 CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments will remain available until July 31, 2025, at 5 p.m. Student responses for the interim assessments will be cleared from the Teacher Hand Scoring System (THSS) after 5 p.m. and will no longer be available for hand scoring.

To ensure that student results from all completed 2024–25 interim assessments appear in the California Educator Reporting System (CERS), all outstanding hand scoring must be completed in the THSS before 5 p.m. on July 31. If the LEA intends for some interim assessment administrations not to have scores sent to CERS, no action is needed, and the responses will be cleared as scheduled.

Hand scoring for the interim assessments is a local responsibility. Please note that, for the Smarter Balanced Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs), hand scoring for both parts of the ICA—the computer-based assessment and the performance task—must be completed and submitted to generate results in CERS.

The 2025–26 CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments will become available at 8 a.m. on August 5, 2025.

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Sincerely,

California Outreach Team
CAASPP & ELPAC Website