Kiona-Benton City High School accepted an invitation from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education, to participate in The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The PISA is an international assessment with the purpose of providing important information for benchmarking performance in reading, mathematics, and science of 15-year-old students in the United States against other countries around the world. 

A select few Kiona-Benton students will take part in this study. Students were randomly selected from the age-range of the study to participate. Selected students and their parents were notified Monday, May 5. In addition to being one of only about 6,300 students who will have the unique opportunity to participate in PISA in the United States, participating students will receive a certificate from the U.S. Department of Education for 4 hours of volunteer service.

The information provided by students will not be shared with the school. NCES is authorized to conduct PISA by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA 2002, 20 U.S.C. §9543). All of the information provided by students may be used only for statistical purposes and may not be disclosed, or used, in identifiable form for any other purpose except as required by law (20 U.S.C. §9573 and 6 U.S.C. §151). Students and schools are never identified in any reports. All reported statistics refer to the United States as a whole.

Learn more about the PISA here or contact District Assessment & Highly Capable Coordinator Jennifer Gilliland at 509-588-2101 or jgilliland@kibesd.org.