Grading - Columbia Heights Educational Campus

Grading Policy

The student's grades indicate his/her understanding and progress in class. Report Cards are given four times a year after each nine week advisory.  Progress reports are issued four times a year, in the middle of each advisory. Parents and students must be aware of the students' grades. Parents must personally pick up all report cards at the meetings of the Association of Parents, Students,  and Staff. Parents and students are expected to come to all of the quarterly Parent Teacher Conference meetings to review grades with teachers. Students will be instructed in how to present their work to their parents and teachers through student led  conferences. These conferences will be required this year.  If you do not understand the grade you have received, please call, or have your parent call or see the Counselor.

Grades for each class are awarded based on:

• Portfolios/Projects/Exhibits
  

• Homework Completion
  

• Class Participation
  

• Attendance
  

• Tests/ Exams
  

The grades at CHEC are composed in the following manner:

Assessments are weighted according to best demonstration of understanding as well as whether they are formative (to help with seeing how  much a student understands) or summative (for a grade) in nature.  This weight helps calculate a grade point equivalent in alignment with the four point grading system.