MAP Reading Fluency Testing vs The New School App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MAP Reading Fluency Testing
This application enables K-5 students to take reading fluency assessments on an iPad. It measures oral reading fluency, foundational skills, and reading comprehension in a single, adaptive test. Teachers benefit from quick, automatic scoring and group testing capabilities.
- Oral reading fluency assessment
- Foundational skills measurement
- Reading comprehension testing
- Adaptive assessment
- Automatic scoring
- Group testing
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The MAP® Reading Fluency™ Testing app from NWEA® allows students to complete our K-5 MAP Reading Fluency assessments using an iPad®. The app is required for MAP Reading Fluency assessments on iPad devices. Quickly and accurately assess your K–5 readers. MAP® Reading Fluency™ enables teachers to efficiently measure oral reading fluency with an online, adaptive assessment. In addition to fluency, the test measures foundational skills and reading comprehension—all with one 20-minute assessment. Group testing and automatic scoring return valuable time to teachers.
The New School App
Access school news, blogs, and announcements in one place. View photos, videos, and documents, and stay updated with calendar events and athletic details. Connect with faculty, students, and parents through the constituent directory.
- News and announcements
- Photos, videos, and documents
- Calendar events
- Constituent directory
- Access to student, faculty, and parent portals
- Athletic event details
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The New School app provides parents, students and faculty members with the information they need in one convenient place. The app includes: • Blogs, news and announcements • Pictures, videos and documents • Calendar events • Constituent directory and more • Access to student, Faculty and Parent Portals Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of the most important news, announcements and calendar events, and you have access on-the-go to the most current community directory. Users are able to: • Browse the latest published photos and videos • Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use • Catch up on current news • Review athletic event details, including opponents, game results, recap commentaries, and more • Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests. • Quickly find faculty, parent, student and alumni contact information • Call or email a constituent directly from your device The information presented in the The New School app is drawn from the same source as the The New School website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The New School App at 5.0 against MAP Reading Fluency Testing's 3.0. The New School App also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). MAP Reading Fluency Testing's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The New School App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MAP Reading Fluency Testing has 30 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MAP Reading Fluency Testing ships an update every 4 months, The New School App every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 10, 2026.
| Parameter | MAP Reading Fluency Testing | The New School App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NWEA | finalsite |
Customer experience
MAP Reading Fluency Testing
The New School App
In-app purchases
MAP Reading Fluency Testing
No in-app purchases
The New School App
No in-app purchases
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