For districts who complete their K-3 Participation Counts in December, Pearson will ship the same quantity plus a 5% district overage of the paper test materials to the shipping address on file for the Spring Reassessment Test administration. These materials are scheduled to arrive at the shipping address that is in PAN between January 12-16. An employee of the district or charter who has signed the AZELLA Test Security Agreement must be available to sign receipt of the shipments. The paper test materials and the Pre-ID Labels will be shipped separately and will arrive during the same week. DTCs will have an opportunity to order additional materials after the materials received have been inventoried. If the Reassessment materials have NOT been delivered by Tuesday, January 20, DTCs should contact ADE via email at AZELLA@azed.gov. LEAs must wait until January 20 before contacting ADE.

Districts and charters must KEEP the boxes in which the testing materials arrive because the same boxes need to be used to return the materials at the end of the test window. 

All students with an EL need and a current AZELLA record are required to participate in the Spring Reassessment Test. This includes students enrolled in EL services (SEI, Bilingual waiver, 50-50 Dual Language Instruction, and Parent Withdrawn) as well as those who have not been enrolled in any EL services for the school year. These students appear on the EL73 - EL Student Need Report as EL Groups 1, 2, and 4. It is imperative that the EL73 Report is downloaded and reviewed frequently before and throughout the Reassessment Test Window.

All students, regardless of disability, who have a Home Language Survey that includes a language other than English and/or American Sign Language (ASL) require an English Language Proficiency (ELP) test. There are no provisions, in either state or federal law, which would allow the exemption of ELP testing for students who are enrolled in the Special Education program and require an ELP test.

The AZELLA DTC must contact the AZELLA Team at ADE about any student who requires an accommodated version of the Spring AZELLA Reassessment Test, additional accommodations, or who has a documented disability (for example: deafness or blindness) that precludes assessment in one or more domains of AZELLA prior to administering the AZELLA test by summitting the AZELLA Additional Accommodations Request Form 2025-2026.

DTCs must wait for ADE's response to the request and further directions from the AZELLA Team prior to administering the AZELLA. Each request form may take up to 4 weeks to process as communication between ADE and the district transpires. The deadline to submit AZELLA Additional Accommodations requests will be December 5, 2025. The only exception to this is transfer students.

Accommodated Forms for Grades KG-12

The AZELLA DTC must ensure that school enrollments and EL program services have been synchronized from the School Information System (SIS) to AzEDS by December 2, 2025, and correct any Placement Test records that are in the AZELLA Corrections application by December 2. This data needs to be compete because ADE will be extracting all Kindergarten though Grade 12 EL student data on December 3 to send to Pearson for pre-registering these students for the Spring 2026 Reassessment Test and printing K-3 Pre-ID Labels. 

DTCs should mark their calendar for December 3, 2025, and January 16, 2026 as a reminder to print the EL73 - EL Student Need Reports. These reports need to be compared to identify which students have not been registered for the Reassessment Test in the schools and need to be added to PAN or transferred (Work Request) in PAN from a different school. 

Students who were not pre-registered by Pearson must be added or a Work Request transfer must be submitted in PearsonAccess Next.

Not all K-3 students will receive a Pre-ID Label. Those who don't receive a label and for those whose labels are incorrect, districts are still required to test these students. The students must be added to PAN and the Student Data Demographic Grid on the back cover of the students' paper test books must be completed by the DTC and STCs prior to the students testing.  

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