--- title: Renaissance Star Assessments Reviews meta\_title: 'Renaissance Star Assessments Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 45 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Renaissance Star Assessments works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 45 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Education url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education --- # Renaissance Star Assessments Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Renaissance Star Assessments but has limited features. Are you part of the Renaissance Star Assessments team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Star Assessments are an award-winning suite of valid, reliable assessments for reading, math,and early literacy, in both English and Spanish. Trusted by over 30,000 schools and highly rated by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, Star Assessments enable educators to quickly gain accurate insights into student learning, growth, and achievement—so they can help all learners reach their full potential. The full Star Assessment suite includes the computer-adaptive Star Reading (K–12), Star Math (K–12), and Star Early Literacy (pre-K–3) assessments; a formative assessment tool, Star Custom (K–12); and Star CBM, with curriculum-based measures for reading (K–6), lectura (K–6), and math (K–3). * * * Seller [Renaissance Learning](https://www.g2.com/sellers/renaissance-learning) Discussions [Renaissance Star Assessments Community](https://www.g2.com/products/renaissance-star-assessments/discuss) Languages Supported English, Spanish Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Sue Reukauf (Senior Marketing Manager | Customer Marketing | Award Winning Community Builder) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/renaissance-star-assessments/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![i-Ready Assessment](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "i-Ready Assessment") i-Ready Assessment 4.4/5(57) ](https://www.g2.com/products/i-ready-assessment/reviews) [ ![NWEA MAP Suite](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "NWEA MAP Suite") NWEA MAP Suite 3.7/5(37) ](https://www.g2.com/products/nwea-map-suite/reviews) [ ![aimswebPlus](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "aimswebPlus") aimswebPlus 3.7/5(16) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aimswebplus/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/renaissance-star-assessments/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 45 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) JE Jason E. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/31/2020 "Star Assessments Review (Middle School Opinion)" 4/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? Star Assessments does a good job of predicting how many of our students will perform on the state assessments at the end of the year. There are also great resources/links available that can assist in targeting needed areas of improvement if educators take advantage of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? Many of our students get tired of taking this assessment multiple times a year (which is needed to get accurate results). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Star assessments to gauge student content knowledge. It is a good starting point to see where our students are so that we can plan how to get them to where they need to be. Generally, we see that projected growth models are accurate and use this information to target how educators will teach these students as the year progresses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") UP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/6/2020 "Renaissance Star Assessments" 5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? I have been using the Star Assessments for 5 years now. I love that the test can be taken as many times as I want the students to take it. It gives a clear picture of the progress or declines that the students are making throughout the year. We have the students take the Star tests at the beginning of each quarter so it is a great tool to monitor their progress throughout the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? I do not have anything that I dislike at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? I am solving the problems of the students that are starting to slowly fall behind because it gives me a summary of what they are struggling with. I then can focus on those skills with that student. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") AP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/3/2020 "Good product overall. Some hits and some misses." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? Renaissance/Star360 has some very good features like quick testing time and a variety of quick, good, classroom level reports for teachers. Being a quick assessment, it leaves more time for student instruction and frees up the lab for other activities. It also has a variety of good, detailed classroom level reports; teachers can get the summary information and performance levels they need easily. It also interpolates the results to account for the exact testing date in relation to their norming study so the results are more accurate regardless of when the assessment is given. It also allows additional testing as progress monitoring for students that need more attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? There are a few things about Renaissance/Star360 that I dislike. One problem is that it does not keep records of previous students, even for the remainder of the current school year. If a student leaves the district, the RDI automatically takes them out of the entire Renaissance system. If I need scores to forward to their new district or if the State requires information on students who left the district during the school year it is a big pain. I have to constantly make and save exports, then if I need to retrieve the expunged information, I have to go to my external, huge, saved exports files and manually search through the csv files. Also, Renaissance/Star360 does not allow reports to be exported in any manipulable form (only in pdf, not as a csv file). The only export that can be done is a very large full export with none of the summaries the other reports provide. In addition, Renaissance/Star360 does not have functioning school wide grouping. Classes can be broken down into smaller sub-groups of a teacher's own students, but it is very difficult to make a larger school wide groups that crosses teachers and classes. When you do make groups, they are not available for student selection on most of the reports--only teachers and classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? Finding out student performance levels, measuring their growth, and making predictions about student performance on the State assessments to target support where needed and address deficiencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") UP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/5/2020 "An Excellent Program" 5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? Star Assessments provide detailed information on what skills and concepts a child is lacking in Reading and Math. It also provides strategies you could use to help the child reach grade-level, and they predict where they should be by the end of the school year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? The only downside would be that they offer a variety of reports for the educators to use to diagnose the child that it sometimes get confusing which one to use and where it can be located on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm able to get an accurate picture on what skills/concepts my students haven't fully mastered yet and develop lesson plans to teach them in a variety of different ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/17/2020 "STAR assessments give me data on my students' reading growth and progress." 5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? I like the grouping feature and also how it shows areas of weakness so you can address those areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? For some second graders, the test is a little lengthy. I typically have them break it up into a couple of testing sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? I mentioned it above. I like getting the reading range from the test. I see that as a benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") UP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/1/2020 "STAR REVIEW" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? What I like best about Renaissance Star Assessments is being able to monitor student's growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? The one thing I dislike are the changes in the website that make the reports hard to find sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Renaissance Star Assessments: Good tool, easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? Some benefits is having an accurate depiction of student growth or student's academic levels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jody S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jody S.") JS Jody S. Elementary Teacher Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2020 "Renaissance Star 360" 3/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? In this era of high stakes testing, STAR gives quick results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? I don’t always understand the students’ results and what goes into their overall score. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Renaissance Star Assessments: STAR is a student-friendly program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? We use STAR to inform instruction for teaching and reteaching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite KC Kaitlyn C. Enrichment Teacher Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/23/2019 "Great!" 5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? There is lots of great data and tools for teachers available on this website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? The only thing I ever had trouble with was when STAR changed their website URL. But that was the only difficulty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Renaissance Star Assessments: It offers multiple subjects and shows data in multiple ways that is easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? I now have the new URL set to favorites on my desktop. I like all the different ways you can see the data: percentile, score, etc. It is also color coded which makes it easier to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Brian J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brian J.") BJ Brian J. Special Education Teacher Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/6/2020 "Renaissance has been a useful assessment tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? I like the reports that can be generated and how they correspond directly to lessons Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? I wish it would break down the skills into TEKS for the reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Renaissance Star Assessments: I would have students retake the test periodically to get progress data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? It gives teachers great insight into the abilities of a given student and plenty of useful data for both Math and Reading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/10/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rita P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rita P.") RP Rita P. Principal Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2020 "STAR Offers Easy Assessment Solution" 5/5 What do you like best about Renaissance Star Assessments? Quick and accurate results, ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Renaissance Star Assessments? Nothing. I like the programs completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Renaissance Star Assessments solving and how is that benefiting you? The data helps with RTI Grouping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Renaissance Star Assessments? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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