Just my 2 cents but the DRA is an awful tool. My dd was an early advanced reader. She was writing book reports on 2nd and 3rd grade level books in kindy but somehow when she got to first grade and they used the DRA she could not score beyond 16 in the beginning of the year. The school will test up to 28 but at the end of the year and low and behold that was how much improvement she made. Hmmmm what a miracle. Now the school has started the DRA testing in kindy and my younger scored 14 at the end of kindy - sounds about right. At that time she was probably reading at a mid first grade level. Over the summer she completely blossomed and her reading skills have grown by leaps and bounds. Well what do you know her DRA score in first grade is an 8. Somehow she managed to go backwards. Sorry but from my experience it is complete hooey and used only because the school can assign concrete numbers to reading and show concrete progress.
