5410 - PROMOTION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION
The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.
It shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth appropriate for each student's development.
Following sound principles of child guidance, the Board discourages the skipping of grades.
Definitions
Promotion: Occurs when a student is doing the quality of work that indicates the student has met the criteria established in this policy.
Placement: Occurs when a student is not doing the quality of work that indicates the student shall be promoted to the next grade, but a determination has been made that it is in the student's best interest to move forward to the next grade.
Retention: Occurs when a student is not doing the quality of work that indicates the student should move forward to the next grade, and the student should repeat the current grade.
The District Administrator shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, placement, and retention of students which:
ensure students who are falling seriously behind their peers or who may not be promoted receive the special assistance they may need to achieve the academic outcomes of the District's core curriculum;
require the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, placement, or retention;
require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level;
assure that efforts are made to remediate the student's difficulties before the student is retained;
assign to the principal the final responsibility for determining the promotion, placement, or retention of each student.
Revised 11/21/22
Revised 10/16/23
T.C. 7/10/25
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