The Department of Accountability provides decision-makers with valid, reliable and timely data to enhance the quality of education offered to students.

Anyone can measure the rain; we build arks.

The mission of the Department of Accountability is to:

• carry out the administrative and logistical functions necessary to implement the standardized testing program
• compile and analyze standardized testing results for use by individual schools, the division, and the Alexandria community
• monitor and evaluate programs and services to improve the quality and effectiveness of instruction and assistance offered to students
• provide in-service training to ACPS staff and the broader community in the use of test and evaluation data
• provide expert consultation to staff on evaluation and research designs, survey/questionnaire construction, data analysis, and statistics
• carry out the responsibilities related to the Every Student Succeeds Act, as well as to extant state and local accountability systems