All Middle School girls will take the ERB tests on the mornings of Wednesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 29. Shortened, regular classes will be held on both afternoons. ERB, Educational Records Bureau, is the highly respected educational organization which designed these evaluation tools.  These learning assessments provide the school and your daughter’s teachers with valuable diagnostic information about areas of strength and those areas needing further attention. Teachers find this data most useful in working with individual students. Once again this year, the girls will be taking these tests online.  Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders will use their own laptops, and fifth graders will use computers provided by the School. There is no special preparation needed for any ERB tests except to be sure the girls get a good night's sleep and eat a nutritious breakfast. We ask that you not schedule any doctor or dentist appointments on those mornings; we do not provide make-ups as we value and study the longitudinal implications of these assessments rather than the results in any individual year. When you receive the results of these assessments in June, a detailed interpretation of your daughter’s scores will be included. Please keep in mind that these percentiles and stanines indicate how your daughter performed on certain tests on a given day; they should not be considered an indicator of her future academic success. Our faculty will give the girls specific information about testing locations and procedures as the time draws closer.