5410 - PROMOTION, ASSIGNMENT, AND RETENTION

Optimal school achievement is obtained when students experience success in their daily activities and build upon successful experiences as they encounter new learning situations. All aspects of the student must be considered as grade placements are made.

DEFINITIONS

1. Promotion:

   Occurs when a student is doing the caliber of work (grade level) that indicates the student has met the criteria established in Policy 5410 and restated below.

2. Assignment:

   Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade. However, the student placement team recommends and the building administrator concurs, that it is in the student's best interest to move to the next grade.

3. Retention:

   Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade, based on the recommendation of the Student Intervention Team with the concurrence of the building administrator.

4. Student Intervention:

   A Student Intervention Team is to be appointed by the principal each year to consider situations in which students may not be promoted to the next grade or may not graduate. Such a team should include:

   1. classroom teacher,

   2. counselor,

   3. building principal.

Final decisions on student promotion, assignment, or retention rest with the building principal.

To implement Board policy, the following guidelines are to be utilized:

Criteria for Consideration

When the Student Intervention Team is convened, the following criteria shall be considered:

1. current level of achievement

2. potential for success at the next level

3. emotional, physical, social maturity

High School Level

1. Criteria

   For the official records, high school students will be assigned to the grade level that corresponds to their graduation cohort. The cohort is determined by the number of years the student has been enrolled in grades 9-12.

   For counseling purposes, a student will be considered on track for graduation when s/he earns required credits at the following rate:

   10 credits: Freshman credits obtained

   18 credits Sophomore credits obtained

   28 credits Junior credits obtained

   Students with more than twenty-eight (28) credits are considered seniors.

2. Students enrolling from schools having different graduation requirements will have their credits pro-rated for class placement.

3. All incoming students will be informed of these requirements at the time of admission.