Visionary leadership, managing change and contexts of education 12
A board asks its superintendent for one inspiring sentence about the future the district is working toward, apart from its statement of purpose. Which document is that?Wikipedia, Vision statement (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0001
A district compares its bus cost per mile and its ninth grade on-track rate with those of the strongest similar districts. What is this practice called?Wikipedia, Benchmarking (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0002
A district's vision stresses early literacy, yet next year's draft budget cuts reading coaches and adds funds for a program unrelated to the vision. What should the superintendent do first?Own work: the answer rests on the text printed in the question and on the wording of the objective. Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0001
A grant plan sets out, in a chain, the staff and money a tutoring program needs, what it will do, what it will produce and the changes expected in students. What is this chain called?Wikipedia, Logic model (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0002
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Visionary leadership, managing change and contexts of education, continued
A planning team lists the forces pushing a new grading policy forward and the forces holding it back, to see which to strengthen and which to reduce. Which of Kurt Lewin's tools is this?Wikipedia, Force-field analysis (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0002
An Illinois board wants to extend its superintendent's performance-based contract a year before it ends. When does the School Code allow that?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-23.8 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0003
Before drafting a vision, a superintendent holds forums with parents, staff, students, employers and residents who have no children in school. What is this practice called?Wikipedia, Stakeholder engagement (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0001
On what does Section 10-16.7 of the Illinois School Code say the board shall evaluate the superintendent?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-16.7 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0003
To learn why families leave the district after grade 5, a superintendent invites ten parents to a guided discussion and studies what they say. Which method is this?Wikipedia, Focus group (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0002
Under the Illinois School Code, how does a school board direct its superintendent in the administration of the district?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-16.7 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0003
What training must every voting member of an Illinois school board complete within the first year of a first term?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-16a (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0003
Who appoints the Illinois State Superintendent of Education?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/1A-4 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0003
Instructional leadership 12
A board member proposes rating teachers by comparing their students' current scores with the same students' scores in earlier years. What is this method called?Wikipedia, Value-added modeling (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0005
A district sets up standing teams of teachers, by grade or subject, as working groups for practice-based professional learning among colleagues. What is this method called?Wikipedia, Professional learning community (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0006
A small group of teachers plans one lesson together, watches a member teach it, studies how students responded and revises it. Which practice, with roots in Japanese elementary schools, is this?Wikipedia, Lesson study (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0006
A superintendent reports "observed, persistent disparities in measures of educational performance among subgroups of students". Which term names them?Wikipedia, Achievement gaps in the United States (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0005
For how long must an Illinois new teacher induction and mentoring program assign a mentor teacher to each new teacher?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/21A-20 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0006
How often, at a minimum, must a student's IEP Team review the IEP under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?Legal Information Institute, 20 U.S.C. 1414 (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0004
Most quizzes that classroom teachers write simply check whether students have learned the material. To which family of tests do they belong?Wikipedia, Criterion-referenced test (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0005
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act bars the exclusion of a qualified person "solely by reason of her or his disability". From what?Legal Information Institute, 29 U.S.C. 794 (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0004
Teachers of grades 6 to 8 record what they teach each month; a review shows the Civil War taught twice and geometry proofs not at all. Which process found the problem?Wikipedia, Curriculum mapping (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0004
Under the Illinois School Code, which four ratings must a district's principal evaluation plan use?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/24A-15 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0005
What must an Illinois licensee with an administrative endorsement, working in a position that requires it, complete each fiscal year?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/21B-45 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0006
Which scholar made culturally relevant teaching widely known in the early 1990s?Wikipedia, Culturally relevant teaching (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0004
Culture of learning, communication and collaboration 8
A district's attendance report counts a student as chronically absent. By the Illinois definition, which absences are added up to reach 10% of school days?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/26-18 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0007
For how long, at most, may an Illinois school board expel a student in grades 3 through 12?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-22.6 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0007
In talks with the teachers' association, both sides list their underlying interests and look for terms that leave each better off. Which kind of negotiation is this?Wikipedia, Negotiation (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0008
Two parent groups hold opposing views on a boundary change. Which first step by the superintendent best fits the objective on competing perspectives?Own work: the answer rests on the text printed in the question and on the wording of the objective. Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0008
Under the Illinois School Code, who is a "chronic or habitual truant"?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/26-2a (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0007
What does the Illinois Open Meetings Act say about members of the public who wish to speak to a school board?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5 ILCS 120/2.06 (Open Meetings Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0008
What does the Illinois School Code tell school officials about the number and length of suspensions and expulsions?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-22.6 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0007
When the State Board provides a district's report cards each fall, what must the Illinois district do with them?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/10-17a (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0008
Resource management and legal and ethical guidelines 12
A resident files a written request for the district's bus contract under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. How soon must the district comply or deny, unless the time is properly extended?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5 ILCS 140/3 (Freedom of Information Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0011
After discussing a principal's dismissal in a properly closed session, an Illinois school board is ready to vote. What does the Open Meetings Act require?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5 ILCS 120/2 (Open Meetings Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0011
An Illinois board wants to discuss the performance of a named principal. What does the Open Meetings Act allow?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5 ILCS 120/2 (Open Meetings Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0011
An Illinois district adopts a budget that is not balanced. What must it also adopt and file with the State Board of Education?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/17-1 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0010
By what date must an Illinois district's Annual Financial Report and audit be filed following the end of each fiscal year?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/3-7 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0010
By when each year must an Illinois school district with fewer than 500,000 residents certify its tax levy to the county clerk?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/17-11 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0010
For how long must an Illinois school keep a student's permanent record after the student transfers, graduates or withdraws?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 10/4 (Illinois School Student Records Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0009
In Illinois Evidence-Based Funding, what does a district's Adequacy Target take into account?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/18-8.15 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0010
Under the Illinois School Safety Drill Act, how often must a district review each building's emergency and crisis response plans?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 128/25 (School Safety Drill Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0009
What record must an Illinois school board keep of every closed meeting, in addition to written minutes?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5 ILCS 120/2.06 (Open Meetings Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0011
When an Illinois district reduces its teaching force, into how many groupings does the School Code sort the teachers qualified for a position to set the order of dismissal?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 5/24-12 (School Code) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0010
Which member must an Illinois district's threat assessment team include?Illinois Compiled Statutes, 105 ILCS 128/45 (School Safety Drill Act) (read 2026-10-15). Outline: ILTS Superintendent (225) test framework, objective 0009
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test design and framework of Illinois Licensure Testing System (ILTS) field 225, Superintendent, as the ILTS site prints them (https://www.il.nesinc.com/Content/STUDYGUIDE/IL_SG_OBJ_225.htm and the test page https://www.il.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/IL225_TestPage.html, read 2026-10-15): Visionary Leadership, Managing Change, and Contexts of Education, 16%; Instructional Leadership, 17%; Culture of Learning, Communication, and Collaboration, 11%; Resource Management and Legal/Ethical Guidelines, 16%; two constructed-response assignments, 24% and 16%; 80 multiple-choice questions (64 scorable), 3 hours 30 minutes of testing time, passing score 240. This bank holds 44 multiple-choice questions, spread 12, 12, 8, 12 over the four subareas in the proportions of their multiple-choice weights. Every fact was read on 2026-10-15 in the public page named under its question: the Illinois Compiled Statutes on the Illinois General Assembly site (the School Code, the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Illinois School Student Records Act and the School Safety Drill Act), the U.S. Code in the Legal Information Institute copy (20 U.S.C. 1414, 29 U.S.C. 794), and the Wikipedia article named for each remaining question. 2 questions rest on the situation printed in the question and on the wording of the objective. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
Free practice for the ILTS Superintendent test, field 225: 44 multiple-choice questions of our own. The real test belongs to the Illinois State Board of Education and Pearson; this unofficial page is not affiliated with either.
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What field 225 weighs
By the framework read October 15, 2026, multiple choice carries 60% of the score: visionary leadership, managing change and contexts of education 16%; instructional leadership 17%; culture of learning, communication and collaboration 11%; resource management and legal and ethical guidelines 16%. Two constructed-response assignments carry 24% and 16%. This bank holds 12, 12, 8 and 12.
Illinois law in the answers
Twenty-six questions rest on Illinois statutes: how a board directs and evaluates its superintendent, performance-based contracts, board member training, Evidence-Based Funding, the budget, levy and audit calendar, honorable dismissal, truancy and expulsion, open meetings and public records. A scored round has no clock, because the real time also covers the written work.
The framework names the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, open-meeting laws and the least restrictive environment.
Questions and answers
What is the format of the ILTS Superintendent test?
80 multiple-choice questions and 2 constructed-response assignments on a computer, the test page says, with 3 hours 30 minutes of testing in a 3 hour 45 minute appointment. The framework scores 64 of the 80.
What score do you need on ILTS Superintendent (225)?
240, by the test page read October 15, 2026. The written assignments are scored too, so a count of right answers here gives no pass or fail.
How long is the wait to retake ILTS Superintendent?
Sixty days, by the ILTS retake policy read October 15, 2026. The Principal as Instructional Leader subtests wait the same 60; most other content-area tests wait 14 days.
Does this page practice the written assignments?
No. The real test has one extended and one focused constructed-response assignment. This page drills the four multiple-choice subareas only, with questions written here and nothing taken from the real test.