Kindergarten School Readiness Data Collection

Overview

The purpose of the Kindergarten School Readiness (KSR) data collection is to provide baseline data for measuring improvement in students' knowledge and skills over time and to collect data needed to fulfill statutory requirements for an annual legislative report.

Data reported to CDE will be from the initial fall assessment window. The initial assessment is to be completed within the first 60 calendar days of the school year as required by HB 15-1323. The collection will be open from mid-October to mid-December each year.

Announcements

The State Board of Education voted on March 11, 2020 to add named domains to the reporting requirements for CDE. This change is reflected in the File Layout and Definitions section below. This change does not change any requirements around the administration of the assessment.

The State Board of Education also voted in June 2023 to add assessment tools to the menu that measure a single domain. This warranted file layout changes for the 24-25 collection.

Deadlines

2024-2025

Collection Open Date: October 23, 2024
Collection Close Date: December 11, 2024

File Layout and Definitions

2024-2025

Business Rules

2024-2025

2024-2025 KSR Business Rules

Trainings

2024-2025 KSR Webinars

Overview of the KSR Collection for Data Respondents New to KSR
- Recording 10/2/2024
- Powerpoint Slide Deck
Data Pipeline Uploads Sourcing Data from a Single Platform
- Recording 10/9/2024
- Powerpoint Slide Deck
Data Pipeline Uploads Sourcing Data from Multiple Platforms
- Recording 10/16/2024
- Powerpoint Slide Deck
Tutorial: Populating Assessment Used in Excel
- Recording
Recordings of the webinars and the PowerPoints will be posted here after the event. More information on assessment platform choices can be found here.

Additional Resources

IdM/Access Management is the system used by CDE to assign data respondents to various collections. This is also how collection leads generate listservs for the various collections.
- Note: Please make sure email addresses are correctly inputted into this system. District local access managers (LAMs) have access to update role assignments and other information within the IdM/Access Management system. Please click "Access Management" on the bottom left-hand side to access the system.
CDE Data Pipeline is the system by which data are submitted to CDE. Please click "Data Pipeline" on the left-hand side to access the system.

FAQs

Click here for KSR FAQs.

Contact Information

For questions about the kindergarten school readiness data collection Tara Rhodes at 720-601-4125 or KSRData@cde.state.co.us.

For questions about the kindergarten school readiness initiative please contact Megan Rogers at 720-326-2880