EQAO

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)tests students skills in reading, writing, and mathematics at key points in their elementary school education. Students are tested twice:

• at the end of grade 3, to assess what they’ve learned throughout the Primary Division (grades 1-3), and
• at the end of grade 6, to assess what they’ve learned throughout the Junior Division (grades 4-6).

Every student who writes the Grade 3 or Grade 6 Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics receives an Individual Student Report. EQAO also releases provincial, school board and school results.

The testing takes place during a two-week period in late May and early June. Each school determines the exact dates during that period on which students will write the test.

The test is administered by your child’s regular teacher in his or her own classroom.

Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Act states that all students in publicly funded schools must participate in these tests. Students don’t need to study for these tests—we just ask them to demonstrate what they already know.

Download A Parents Guide to EQAO Tests (PDF 194 KB).

Download Questions and Answers for Parents. These are available in a variety of languages.

You can view the results of EQAO testing for any provincial school. Test results are available from 1996 to the present.