Welcome to FOCUS, a Florida Department of Education Web site offering online mini assessments for reading and math skills. Each mini assessment provides a set of valid, FCAT-like questions, plus a set of five parallel items for re-testing. Here you will find mini assessments for all math benchmarks and reading foci for grades 3 - 10.

Students can use their FCAT Explorer sign-in name and password to begin working on the assessments. Teachers can use their FCAT Explorer sign-in name and password to enter the FOCUS Teacher's Desk, where they'll find tools to schedule and track student progress.

To read more about the Continuous Improvement Model click here.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: FCAT Explorer and FOCUS will be offline beginning 8:00 a.m. EST on Friday, August 1 to renew the database. The websites will return to production no later than Monday, August 4. More>>