Third Grade Reading Guarantee 2022-2023 Promotion Score and Updated Guidance Manual

The Third Grade Reading Guarantee’s pre-pandemic promotion criteria is back in effect for the 2022-2023 school year. Any student who scores 685 or higher on the English language arts scaled score will be eligible for promotion to fourth grade at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. In addition, the Ohio Department of Education has set the reading subscore  for Ohio’s State Test for grade 3 English language arts test at 47 for the 2022-2023 school year. Any student who scores 47 or higher on the reading subscore will be eligible for promotion to fourth grade at the end of the 2022-2023 school year, even if the student scores below 685 on Ohio’s State Test for grade 3 English language arts.

For further information about the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, please see the updated Third Grade Reading Guarantee guidance manual and the Third Grade Reading Guarantee's webpage.

Please send questions to ThirdGradeGuarantee@education.ohio.gov.