Lexile® measure – Star Help

A diagram showing scores on a descending scale: 200L, 100L, 0L, BR100L, and BR200L

A Lexile® measure represents a student's reading ability:

The Lexile® measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it: 750L is 750 Lexile®.
Higher Lexile® measures indicate higher levels of reading ability. A Lexile® measure can range from below 200L for emergent readers to above 1600L for advanced readers.
Scores below 0L are prefixed with "BR" for Beginning Reader. For these scores, the higher the number is, the lower the actual score is: for example, a score of BR200L is lower than BR100L (as shown on the right).

Lexile® measures are "capped" for some grades to ensure that they are not too high (for students with high test scores) and to make sure that these students are getting recommended appropriate instructional activities and books.

Grade	Star Early Literacy Cap	Star Reading Cap	Star Reading Spanish Cap
K	BR25L	850L	n/a
1	95L	900L	850L
2	565L	1100L	900L
3	885L	1200L	1100L
4	n/a	1300L	1200L
5	n/a	1400L	1300L
6	n/a	1500L	1350L
7	n/a	1600L	1400L
8	n/a	1700L	1450L
9	n/a	1725L	n/a
10	n/a	1750L	n/a
11	n/a	1800L	n/a
12	n/a	1825L	n/a

The figures in the table above are upper caps. Lexile® measures also have lower caps that apply to all grades: Star Early Literacy's lower cap is BR1300L, Star Reading and Star Reading Spanish's lower cap is BR400L.

Students’ Lexile® measures (for Star Early Literacy, Star Reading Progress Monitoring, and Star Reading Enterprise assessments in grades K–12) can be found on the following reports:

Lexile® measures are only shown on reports when the Lexile® scale is the chosen scale. The Lexile® scale will not be a selectable scale option when a report is being run for Star Math (English or Spanish).

In some cases, a student’s Scaled Score may correspond to only a single value in the Lexile® range; in these cases, the “range” shown on the report will be the same number (for example, 1400L–1400L).