WaKIDS: Washington Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Results

The 2024-25 school year dataset contains Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) assessment results. Teachers observe kindergarten students across six developmental domains: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy, and Math. The data likely contains readiness percentages and counts for various student groups at school, district, and county levels.

Use Cases

• Compare kindergarten readiness percentages across schools using SchoolName and Percent columns.
• Analyze readiness trends over time for specific student groups using schoolyear, StudentGroup, and MeasureValue.
• Assess performance across developmental domains like Literacy and Math using the Domain column.
• Identify districts with high or low readiness rates using DistrictName and OrganizationLevel.
• Examine county-level readiness disparities using County and StudentGroupType columns.

Strengths

• Assessment covers six specific developmental domains: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy, and Math.
• Data is updated regularly, with a last updated date of 2025-05-10.
• Provides multi-level aggregation from school to state via OrganizationLevel and related ID columns.

Limitations

• Exact row count and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• License information is inconsistently reported as 'other-license-specified' or 'None'.
• Author and original source organization details are missing.

Provenance

Source

Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), via data.wa.gov.

Collection Method

Administrative data collected from teacher observations during the first two months of kindergarten.

Time Range

2024-25 school year.

Freshness

Last updated: 2025-05-10 17:10:28.288041

Geography

Washington State, United States, with breakdowns by County, District, and School.