Report Cards/Grading
Report Card Dates
Report Cards are issued to all elementary students. Kindergarten report cards are issued twice during the school year.
1st Marking Period
September 7, 2023 through January 31, 2024
Parent Conferences: November/December
Report cards issued: Friday, February 2, 2024
2nd Marking Period
February 1, 2024 through June 20, 2024
Report cards issued: June 20, 2024
Westfield Public Schools’ grading system for kindergarten through fifth grade students is listed below:
Exceeds Standards = consistently extends key concepts and skills and works beyond stated benchmarks
Achieves Standards = consistently grasps and applies concepts and skills while meeting stated benchmarks
Progressing Toward Standards = beginning to grasp key concepts and skills and progressing toward stated benchmarks Needs improvement = not yet grasping or applying key concepts and skills and requires constant teacher support
BASIC CURRICULUM
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Spanish Grades 3, 4 and 5
Art
Health (health, drugs/alcohol & family living)
General Music
Physical Education and Safety
Library/Information Skills
Technology applications within the curriculum
SPECIALISTS AVAILABLE
Library/Media
School Nurses/Health Educators
I&RS Teams (Intervention & Referral Services)
Social Workers
English-as-a-Second Language
Learning Disability Consultants
School Psychologists
Speech/Language Therapists
Specialists for the Auditorially Impaired
Occupational Therapists
Adaptive Physical Education
School Counselors
Physical Therapists
PROGRAMS INCLUDE
Special Education Support
Resource Center Support
ACHIEVE/Basic Skills Intervention
English-as-a-Second Language
Instrumental Music Lessons,
Grade 4 Band & String Ensemble, Grades 4 & 5 Chorus
Gifted Program
Westfield’s implementation of its vision of education has proved successful by any measure. Westfield students demonstrate outstanding achievement in all areas, whether assessed by tests, individual portfolios of work, individual or group projects, or creative productions. Our charge for the future is to continue rigorously researching and upgrading our curriculum and methods and tools of instruction to ensure that we continue to prepare each student for career, citizenship and individual goal attainment.
The Westfield Public School District’s Elementary curriculums are aligned with the most current State Standards. State Standards define what students should know and be able to do in a specific discipline. They place emphasis on the knowledge students should acquire and the understandings they should develop in the course of their K – 12 experiences. The indicators describe age-appropriate results which students are expected to achieve by the end of certain grade clusters.
In each of the nine areas, Westfield’s curriculum and expectations exceed those suggested by the New Jersey Department of Education. The Elementary Gifted Program is based at Edison Intermediate School.