Deliver a modern, accessible, and intuitive experience with SchoolCity’s Student Portal.
Meet the SchoolCity Student Portal
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A TEKS–aligned assessment platform for Texas districts
SchoolCity is the home for all your formative assessment needs with TEI types aligned to TEA’s STAAR redesign in Texas. Learn more about how Renaissance’s comprehensive assessment system supports Texas’ assessment needs.
Transform your district’s assessment experience for all Texas stakeholders

Unlock a TEKS-aligned assessment platform for your district
Guide significant structural changes to your platform’s assessment capabilities, online testing tools, automated TestHound accommodations, and more so that every stakeholder can use data to improve instruction and standards proficiency.

Advance data-based conversations with reports
Quickly access data-driven insights with custom-built reports like lead4ward, Interim, and early projections of TEA’s Texas Accountability reporting to answer your specific questions about student learning, progress, and standards proficiency.

Demystify formative feedback
Take the heavy lifting out of high-impact feedback. Know exactly what’s causing students to struggle and address learning disconnects in the moment with built-in distractor rationales and the inclusion of Demonstrations of Learning (DOL).

Engage students as drivers of their own learning
Develop the right student-friendly reports to help learners understand their own strengths and needs. Offer flexible ways to demonstrate standards proficiency with performance-based assessments including Band, performance, art, and CTE.

Automatic updates to TestHound® accommodations
SchoolCity’s integration with TestHound provides a seamless user experience that allows districts to import accommodations into student profiles, for Student Accommodations updated on a nightly basis and for Special Education accommodations.

Make assessment more accessible for all
SchoolCity’s Student Portal delivers a modern, accessible, and intuitive experience—removing barriers so all students can confidently demonstrate their knowledge.
Accelerate standards mastery with high-quality STAAR–aligned content built for Texas
SchoolCity’s TX Test Maker Item Bank provides an extensive bank of highest quality TEKS-specific items written in STAAR® format for flexible, standards-aligned assessment creation, including TEI item types.
- TEKS alignment
- STAAR online test accommodations
- Extensive metadata
- Deep item bank coverage
- Prebuilt and custom reports
- Valid and reliable assessments
- Item-specific rubrics and sample responses
- Evidence-centered design
- Living bank with continuous review
- Technology-enhanced item types
- Spanish items and assessments
- Highly qualified team of content creators
Customize with additional Texas focused content
TX Prebuilt Assessments
Utilize validated and tested items to create TEKs-specific assessments, including interim and unit-based assessments.
TX Formative Item Bank
TEKS-specific item bank designed to fuel the daily formative assessment process with rigorous content and built-in distractor rationales.
TEKSbank
Built by Region 10 educators, TEKSbank is designed based on in-depth analysis of TEKS, the STAAR released items, and assessment best practices.
TEKSready
TEKSready Prebuilt Assessments are designed to measure student knowledge at both the beginning and end of the year, providing educators with valuable insights to support the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA).
How does schoolcity work?
How Renaissance’s standards-aligned assessment platform works
Partner
Meet with our team to create a strategy for meeting your Texas assessment creation, administration, and reporting needs.
Assess
Utilize built-for-Texas item banks to administer assessments via paper/pencil, online, or a combination, leveraging any custom-built online testing tools and TestHound automated accommodations. Scan paper/pencil assessments for instant grading.
Report
Expedite data-driven decisions with customized reports by assessment, standard, item, and multiple measures, including lead4ward, Interim, and TXPRO reports to immediately surface insights about curriculum, instruction, student supports, equity, and more.
Move learning forward
Confidently take the right next steps to advance student learning and accelerate district-wide standards proficiency by using results to create students’ groups for further monitoring and interventions.
Assessments that fit your needs
Answer Key Only
Upload your existing assessments to avoid recreating them in SchoolCity, while also receiving the in-depth standards-based reporting that SchoolCity provides.
Express
Quickly create a paper/pencil multiple choice assessment and scan results for instant grading to take a formative check on student learning.
Performance-Based
Evaluate students’ skills knowledge through practical real-world tasks or projects.
Surveys
Gather data around social-emotional learning, school climate and culture, perceptions, and well-being from students and teachers.

Real stories from educators
Success stories from districts like yours
In Texas’ largest school district, a collaborative partnership and “just right” assessments have elevated data-driven instruction.
Security and privacy
As of December 2022, SchoolCity has received a SOC2 report from an AICPA auditor.
Approved by administrators and teachers globally
We researched various platforms to see what was cutting-edge, and what appeared to be next-level. SchoolCity stood out because their team understands that urban districts need customization. It was at that point that we began our beautiful partnership with SchoolCity, and they have not failed us.
Betty Garcia-Hill, Formative Assessment Manager, Houston Independent School District (HISD)
Want to learn more?
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of SchoolCity and help you decide if it’s the right tool for you and your students.