FCPS Grading Scale in 2024-2025

[Anonymous]

As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

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What you should be more concerned about is the removal of grades for assignments and reliance on tests only. As well as the removal of plus and minus grades on any graded test or work. There are only five grades with the new system. One grade for an A, One for a B, One for a C, and one for a D and then zero. It's really a five-point grading system that averages these five numbers at the end of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

The change is being made to help close the achievement gap.

As far as college admissions go, the practical result will be to help those students from lower SES backgrounds, who often tend to be BIPOC, while curtailing some of the unearned privilege traditionally enjoyed by other students.

This change in grading should narrow the achievement gap and college admissions gap from both ends: the top and the bottom.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

Only for the final grade of the year. Not for individual grades.

[Anonymous]

I don't know the exact numbers of individual grade translations for the 0-100 scale. I just know there are only five numbers used. Can anyone who has more details explain? Someone wrote them before. 83 is every B grade your child gets or something like this.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

The change is being made to help close the achievement gap.

As far as college admissions go, the practical result will be to help those students from lower SES backgrounds, who often tend to be BIPOC, while curtailing some of the unearned privilege traditionally enjoyed by other students.

This change in grading should narrow the achievement gap and college admissions gap from both ends: the top and the bottom.

None of this makes sense about the 100 point scale. This is what most schools already do but some had a 4 point scale. Now every school will be the same. Your talking points might have some validity about sbg and retakes but not the scale.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

+1 correct. Madison will be changing gears with grading coke next year. They are currently using a SBG approach to grading. Next year it’ll be back to normal.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

+1 correct. Madison will be changing gears with grading coke next year. They are currently using a SBG approach to grading. Next year it’ll be back to normal.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

+1 correct. Madison will be changing gears with grading coke next year. They are currently using a SBG approach to grading. Next year it’ll be back to normal.

Unfortunately no. There will still be rolling grade book and skills based grading.