Per California State law, students must be assessed in their primary language.

The Language Assessment Scales (LAS) Test is a test given to Spanish speaking students entering the public school system in the United States for the first time.  Students with primary languages other than Spanish or English fill out a questionnaire that helps evaluate their primary language skills.

Spanish-speaking students are tested via Oral and Language Assessment Scales (LAS) in Reading/Writing.  The LAS-O measures phonemic, lexical, syntactical, and pragmatic language subsystems.  Diverse measurement types, content areas, and scoring procedures are incorporated into one Spanish form to help facilitate the test.  LAS R/W assesses writing skills directly and uses selected response items to measure vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, mechanics and usage.  Parents will receive the results of their students tests by mail.

A language survey is used for languages other than Spanish.

Click below for CDE ELD Standards

California English Language Development Standards

ELD Framework