Columbia Heights Educational Campus

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:
1. Portfolios/Projects/Exhibits
2. Homework Completion
3. Class Participation
4. Attendance
5. Tests/ Exams

The grades at Bell 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 students understands) or summative (for a grade) in nature. This weight helps calculate a grade point equivalent in alignment with the four point grading system.

In order to achieve a rating of exceeds, meets, or not meeting standards (on student work), the student must do work that obtains a grade of or above:

The following are grades and their equivalents:

Grades Percentage Quality Point Equivalent

• A 93-100 4.0
• A- 90-92
• B+ 87-89
• B 85-93 3.0
• B- 80-82
• C+ 77-79
• C 75-84 2.0
• C- 70-72
• D+ 67-69
• D 64-66 1.0
• F Failure 0-63
• I Incomplete* 0.0

• An incomplete will be automatically changed to an "F" if work is not completed within 10 days.

Cumulative Grade Point Calculation

For uniformity, each student's grade point average should be computed as follows:
1. Add the grade point average for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades
2. Multiply the total number from #1 above by 4:
3. Add the grade point averages for the first three (3) quarters of the 12th grade;
4. Add the total number from # 3 above to the number derived in # 2 above;
5. Divide the number derived in # 4 above by 15;
6. This number is the grade point average.