Chart a Path to Proficiency with Stretch Growth®

Stretch Growth: A Research-Backed Recovery Metric

What will it take to achieve student proficiency over time? i-Ready’s growth measures provide some insight. Data gathered across millions of students over time who take our assessment informs our individualized student growth targets. This determines their individual placement level and unique growth goals to work toward getting to grade level.

Stretch Growth was created to support educators in setting an ambitious, attainable, and accelerated path to grade level for each student.

Our latest research shows more students—including those multiple years below their given grade level—can reach grade level by setting and meeting Stretch Growth targets two years in a row. Across all grades—including grades critical for learning (i.e., Grades 2 and 3 for reading and Grades 4 and 5 for mathematics)—we found:

• More students who placed two or more years below grade level reached grade level if they met Stretch Growth targets versus students who met Typical Growth in both years
• Even meeting Stretch Growth in one year accelerated more students to grade level than two consecutive years of Typical Growth

Percentage of Students On Grade Level after Two Years of Meeting Growth Goals:

Celebrate Remarkable Growth

Pierce Hammock Elementary is one of the 2023 i-Ready Super Stretch Schools that had 55% or more students at their school meet Stretch Growth goals last school year.

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i-Ready's Growth Measures

We provide two growth measures for students:

• Typical Growth: Typical Growth demonstrates the average annual growth for students who start at a similar level of proficiency.
• Stretch Growth: Stretch Growth demonstrates the amount of growth a student needs to be on the path to grade-level proficiency. It fosters transparency around the work needed to support student growth goals and promotes higher-expectation settings that students deserve.