Report Cards/Grading

Key for Assessing Academic Benchmarks:

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

Overview of Westfield Public Schools’ Commitment to Excellence in Education

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.