The fundamental purpose of grading is to provide feedback to students and teachers so that students will learn better and teachers will refine their strategies to help students improve. Grading communicates, to all of our stakeholders, achievement toward priority standards at a certain point in time to inspire future achievement.

• Summative assessments will be designed to measure the mastery of the course priority standards. Assessments will be organized by each standard.
• Group grades do not clearly represent an individual student’s proficiency; therefore, a group grade will not be assigned.   Feedback will be provided to group projects; however, each individual will receive an independent grade on what they demonstrate they know and are able to do.
• Formative assessments, homework, practice, and other learning activities will receive feedback and will not total more than 30% of the final grade as they are practice toward learning.
• Summative assessments/projects will have a weight of 70% or higher in the final grade.
• If proficiency on a section of the summative has not been met, a student-initiated retake may occur after evidence of additional practice has occurred on that standard(s).
• The retake score will replace the original score.
• Grades can be viewed in Infinite Campus as they are regularly updated.
• Lateness or noncompliance are behaviors and will be addressed with the progressive discipline system and assessed separately from the academic grade on the report card.
• There is no extra credit.