Grading

GRADING

Students will receive report cards at the end of each grading period.  The academic grades will reflect the classwork, projects,and tests done for that period.Each subject at each grade level will have three categories: 40% Major Grades (Assessments & Projects), 45% Minor Grades (Examples can include quizzes, daily work, short reading comprehension questions, etc...), and 15% Exit Tickets  

All content area grades in K-5th grades will be numerical averages rather than letter grades.  Please use the following scale for interpretation of grades:

90-100: 

Excellent quality of work – thorough mastery of subject matter; student is able to teach the information to others and easily transfer concepts to new contexts.

80-90: 

Good quality of work – average mastery; occasionally requires the help of a teacher; understands different aspects of content and how they might fit together to form a whole; most of the time, student can transfer understanding into new contexts.

75-79: 

Satisfactory quality of work; requires more support from teacher to understand concepts; is able to understand several aspects but is unable to make connections between them; student struggles to transfer understanding to new contexts.

70-74: 

Below quality of work expected; below average achievement; has the ability to make obvious connections; might be able to memorize something but unsure how or why the memorized procedure or content functions; does not have the ability to transfer information to new contexts.

Below 70: 

Unsatisfactory quality of work; failing; student does not understand the content and cannot complete work without teacher support.

Conduct will be marked with one of four letter grades to be interpreted as follows:

         E                  Excellent quality of behavior – totally self-disciplined.

              S                  Satisfactory quality of behavior – cooperates readily.

         P                  Poor quality of behavior – below average.

         U                 Unsatisfactory quality of behavior – needs drastic improvement.

 GRADEBOOK

All K – 5th grade teachers record student grades on the online gradebook.  Parents have access to their child’s grades by registering in the parent section of the HISD portal at https://www.houstonisd.org/domain/11001

GRADING POLICY

Teachers will share their grade level specific grading policy at their Parents’ Night session. 

• • Number of grades in each subject area – Math, Reading, and Language Arts will have a minimum of 2 grades recorded per week totaling 12 grades per 6-week cycle. Science and Social Studies will have minimum of 1 grade recorded per week totaling 6 grades per 6-week cycle.

  • Demonstrations of Learning (Exit Tickets, Quizzes and Tests) must be completed at school under the supervision of the teacher.

  • Categories and Weights of assignments – Each subject at each grade level will have three categories: 40% Major Grades (Assessments & Projects), 45% Minor Grades (Examples can include quizzes, SCRs, daily work, short reading comprehension questions, etc...), and 15% Exit Tickets 

  • Make-up assignments: If a student is absent from school, he or she will have up to five days after returning to make up missed assignments.

  • A grade penalty for make-up work after an unexcused absence should not be imposed.

  • Penalties for academic dishonesty – refer to the HISD Student Code of Conduct