San Diego City Schools Board Policy allows for the suppression and re- placement of some semester grades under certain circumstances. The policy states that students who receive a ”D” or ”F” in a course taken in a San Diego Unified School District middle or senior high school (grades 7-12), may retake exactly the same course in a San Diego City Schools middle or senior high school. If the grade received in the second attempt of the exact same course (the district course title and course number must be identical), the second grade will replace the first grade earned in the course in GPA computations and graduation credit. The original ”D” or ”F” grade will remain on the student’s transcript but the grade point average will reflect only the grade earned upon retake.
The suppression policy does not apply to courses taken in other districts or in private schools. Students repeating a course with a grade of ”C” or higher will continue to have both marks displayed on the transcript and both will be included in cumulative grade point average calculations (in effect averaging the two grades earned).