Earning a Provisional Rating of 3-5 Stars in the rating process leads to completion of an Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment from QUALITYstarsNY’s independent observation team, Children's Institute. For these programs, the average score of the ERS observation(s) is combined with their Provisional Rating points to calculate the program’s Active Rating.
For programs that receive an ERS observation in the rating process, observations are conducted for half the classrooms for each age group the program serves. For this reason, it is important that participants in the rating process keep their classroom information up-to-date in their Aspire Registry Organization Profile.