In accordance with Oklahoma law and SDE regulations, BPS offers an alternative 8th grade reading test a minimum of four times per year, as shown on the registration form linked below. This test is available to all public school, private school and home schooled children who have not taken, or did not pass the Oklahoma Core Curriculum eighth grade reading test with a score at or above an eighth grade level. For more information on this subject, contact the BPS district testing coordinator, Amy Lawrence, at 918-336-8600.

• Download Test Registration Form

You can email completed forms to Amy Lawrence at the Education Service Center at LawrenceAE@bps-ok.org

The email button on the form does not work in some web browsers, but may work if you download the form to your computer and open that downloaded file in Adobe Reader.

Each summer, students have the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in one or more areas of the core curriculum:

• Social Studies

• Language Arts

• The Arts

• Languages

• Mathematics

• Science

For more information on this subject, contact the school counselor at your school site.

• School Board Policy on Proficiency Based Promotion