Report Cards and Grades Part 2

The movement to a standards-based report card for the elementary school will not be easy. Identifying which academic standards to report will take much consideration on the part of teachers and administrators. A grade-reporting template will also have to be developed to accommodate the use of performance standard descriptors. As for the four-point scale replacing the percentage-based system at the high school, this will also be a “work in progress.” The new system, if adopted, may have to be “phased in” in grades 9-12 due to the fact that GPAs for students in those grades are already being calculated with the percentage-based system. Both of these potential changes are intended to help the district communicate student performance in a more efficient and effective manner.