Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, community activities and outreach was limited. We are starting to see these effects, and are focusing to increase kindergarten readiness in our 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). For this performance measure, we are using "On Track" to measure progress with kindergarten readiness. 

Ohio’s school districts administer the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) in the first few months of school each year as a new way of looking at kindergarten readiness in Ohio. The KRA includes questions that the students answer, as well as questions where students are observed in their classrooms while doing activities or interacting with other students. The KRA includes 50 questions that address a child’s growth and development in four main areas, Language and Literacy, Social Foundations, Mathematics and Physical WellBeing and Motor Development. The KRA is designed to support teachers’ learning about their students, as well as to help teachers understand how they might modify their classroom instruction to support student learning.

The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is the first early childhood assessment used in Ohio that looks at the whole child. The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is the first to recognize the importance of a child’s development across the essential domains of school readiness. The research is clear that all areas of development are interconnected; a fact even more pronounced in young children. A delay in development in a seemingly unrelated area could impact a student’s ability to achieve academically later in life.