The school utilizes external assessments to evaluate school-wide student achievements, to determine program effectiveness, and to prepare students for university entrance. Standardized test results are used to inform instruction, report student progress, assist in class placement, support differentiation and inform curriculum review. External standardized tests are administered to students in Grades 2-10. Any standardized testing instrument shall be normed on a population as equivalent as possible to the school’s student population. IB examinations are administered in Grade 12.