- Academic Affairs
GRADING
POLICY
This school believes that the issuance of grades serves to promote
continuous evaluation of student's performance, to inform the student and
parents of the student's progress, and to provide a basis for bringing about
needed changes in that student's performance.
The
basic grading system for subject-area grading in grades six (6) through twelve
(12) is expressed by numerical value. The
numerical values are equivalent to the following letter grades:
A ................................93-100
B
................................ 85-92
C
................................ 75-84
D
................................ 70-74
F
..............................Below 70
Conduct grades are based on behavior and are not deducted from academic grades.
Grades are given at the end of each six-week period and will be determined from
daily work, written assignments, and tests.
The teachers will weigh the value of grades given for various assignments
within the six-week period in computing the grades for each student.
The six-weeks grade reflects at least 50% of the student's evaluation
through the use of tests or the equivalent of tests, I.E., projects, reports, or
reading assignments that may have been assigned the value of a test by the
teacher. The remaining percentage
should consist of the criteria which the teacher may elect to use, such as class
participation, homework, classwork, etc., with the percentage for each being
determined by the teacher.
The final grade for the year will be determined by averaging the two semester
grades. The final exam will be
counted as one-seventh of the yearly average.
HARRIS
MIDDLE SCHOOL
EXAM EXEMPTION POLICY
Harris
Middle School
will exempt students from final exams
when they meet the following criteria:
93-100................................No
more than 4 absences
85-92..................................No
more than 3 absences
75-
84..................................No more than 1 absence
Below 75.............................No exemption
Students
will be exempt on a per class basis. Teachers
will keep the attendance for each class and exemptions will not be connected to
the student's total school attendance.
Tardies
to school and all tardies occurring after first period will be equal to one
third of an absence in that class to which the student is tardy.
Students who do not meet the grade and attendance requirements will be required
to take their final exam in all classes in which they are not exempt.
All students who are exempt from exams will have their second semester average
figured by averaging the fourth, fifth, and sixth six weeks grades.
In order to be exempt from exams the student must have been in attendance
for the entire second semester and all absences will be counted from the time of
enrollment.
Classes missed because of school sponsored activities, including 4-H, will not
be counted as absences. Students
will not be counted as absent on recognized religious holidays.
All other absences will count against exemptions.
Teachers will have the latitude to exempt students with
an "A" average who may have had extenuating circumstances that caused
them to miss more than four class periods during the school year.
Examples of some qualifying circumstances may be but are not limited to:
Long term hospital stays, family crisis, or approved trips.
All exemptions of this nature must have the approval of the school's
administration.
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