FCPS Grading Scale in 2024-2025

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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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

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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.

OP here. I got it! So, the 4.0 point scale mentioned on the FCPS site is not about 4.0 GPA?
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-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.

OP here. I got it! So, the 4.0 point scale mentioned on the FCPS site is not about 4.0 GPA?
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

Correct.

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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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point 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.

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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

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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.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

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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.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

DP. Not sure if we're at the same middle school or a different one. FWIW, only one teacher seems to actually be doing standards-based-grading where the standard is a goal for the semester/year and starts at a C or B and will (hopefully, probably) go up to an A by the end of the year. Other teachers are just calling a unit a standard and that's that. And yes, DC has high school grades and yes, their GPA is taking a hit. At least, all the students at our school are in the same boat. That's small comfort.

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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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

I think the only hope is a new SB that will replace Reid.

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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.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

DP. Not sure if we're at the same middle school or a different one. FWIW, only one teacher seems to actually be doing standards-based-grading where the standard is a goal for the semester/year and starts at a C or B and will (hopefully, probably) go up to an A by the end of the year. Other teachers are just calling a unit a standard and that's that. And yes, DC has high school grades and yes, their GPA is taking a hit. At least, all the students at our school are in the same boat. That's small comfort.

Irving?

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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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

I think the only hope is a new SB that will replace Reid.

A “new” all-democrat school board certainly will not replace Reid.

In fact, an all-D board will simply continue on with the same failed policies of the current board.

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Where did they get Reid from? How do people this incompetent get jobs 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.

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.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Next year they will have to revert to the 10 point scale as defined by FCPS.

This year they can still do the crap you are talking about.

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Let's hope. I've considered moving for this reason and plan to vote against the current school board because of it. Republicans brought in fairgrade and the current school system has managed to sabotage that. If they can't make fairgrade work across all assignments, then there will be a lot of people moving out of the district eventually.

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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.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

Same. I don't know what these folks are talking about. Our HS has never stopped using 100 point scale and there is nothing unclear about it. And kids can get in-between grades 83, 86, 92, 97, etc....

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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.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yikes! Sorry your school sucks!