Know what every student needs after every assessment.
Built on curriculum-based assessment measurement, GAINS® helps teachers and school leaders identify which standards need reteaching and which students need support.
A student answers an assessment, GAINS turns the answers into a report by standard, and the teacher gets a note: reteach Standard 5 to 4 students.
- 1A student takes an assessment
- 2GAINS® scores every standard
- 3The teacher sees what to reteach
School grade of Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts, 2016 to 2019, with GAINS in use since 2017
Rank of Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts among Florida schools in 2025–26 (tied for 90th of 3,449)
questions GAINS answers, each with a dedicated report
Florida Department of Education Innovator, 2022
Why we built GAINS®
Helping teachers know what to reteach, and to whom
GAINS measures student performance on curriculum-based assessments to identify which standards need to be retaught and which students need additional support.
Research-based
Built on curriculum-based assessment measurement (CBAM)
CBAM measures student performance on the assessments that are part of the curriculum being taught. GAINS is built on this method.
Assessments from the curriculum
Students are measured on what they are taught, not on a separate third-party test.
Scored by standard
Each question is aligned to a state standard, so results show which standards students have mastered and which require further instruction.
Research from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) found that using curriculum-based assessment data to inform instruction produces better outcomes than relying on third-party assessments alone.CSAI, Using Curriculum-Based Assessment Data to Inform Instruction
What GAINS® reports
Eight questions GAINS® helps schools answer
Each question is answered by a GAINS report built from curriculum-based assessment results.
Where do we stand?
School-wide results by subject, grade, and standard.
02Are students growing?
Year-to-date progress on each standard.
03Where are the gaps?
Performance on every standard and strand across the school.
04What do we teach next?
Standards flagged for upcoming units.
05What do we reteach?
Results by question and standard after each assessment.
06Who needs help?
Each student’s result on every question.
07How are we trending? New
Monthly results compared with the previous year.
08How well do our assessments align with PM3? New
Curriculum assessment results compared with PM3 results for each standard.
Results
From a D to an A
Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts, a charter school in Pasco County, was graded D in 2016. It started using GAINS in 2017 and has earned an A in every graded year since 2019. In 2025-26 it tied for 90th of 3,449 graded schools in Florida.
Athenian Academy Florida school grades: 2016 D, 2017 B, 2018 B, 2019 A, 2022 A, 2023 A, 2024 A, 2025 A, 2026 A. GAINS in use from 2017.
Official Florida school grades from FLDOE. No grades were given in 2020 or 2021, and 2023 was a baseline year for the new state test.
The team behind GAINS®
Developed for charter schools with input from teachers
FLDOE Top 12 Innovator
Daniel Rishavy, President and CEO, was named a Florida Department of Education Top 12 Innovator in 2022.
In use in Florida schools
Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts, Crestwell School, Central Florida Preparatory School, and South Prep Scholars Academy use GAINS today.
Schools using GAINS today
Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts
Crestwell School
Central Florida Preparatory School
South Prep Scholars Academy
In the press · November 2022
“Setting a new standard in education with analytics”
Education Technology Insights put Daniel Rishavy and Edvance Learning on the cover of its LMS edition, and named the company one of the Top 10 LMS Solutions Providers of 2022.
“We continuously improve our robust learning systems closely linked to schools’ curriculum.”Cover story, Education Technology Insights
GAINS® AI
Reteaching and enrichment lesson plans based on each class’s GAINS results.
See it in action
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A brief walkthrough of GAINS® with Daniel Rishavy, President and CEO.
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