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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know the graduation rates in fcps per high school over the last 30 years. [/quote]

Why?  They’ve made it easier to graduate in recent years while reducing what’s needed to graduate. [/quote]

False.

FCPS follows state of VA graduation requirements.

In 1983: students were required to complete 18 "Carnegie credits",

In 1990 they were required to complete 21 Carnegie credits including core requirements of 4 English, 3 Social Studies, 2 Math, 2 Science,

In 2023, they are required to complete 22 Carnegie credits, including core requirements of 4 English,  3 Social Sciences, 3 Math, 3 Lab Science,

So there has been an increased requirement of an additional math course and an additional lab science course to get a HS diploma.[/quote]

That part might be true, but grades are so unbelievably inflated now that it is far easier to get those credits than it was 20-40 years ago.

I graduated from an FCPS high school in the mid-1990s. Back then:

* we received zeros for unsubmitted assignments (not the 50% of today)
* late work was never accepted (as opposed to the "turn it is whenever you feel like it" approach today)
* there were no retakes of anything ever (unlike the "retake everything" policy today)
* the grading scale was much more rigorous (94-100= A; 90-93= B+, 84-89= B; 80-83= C+, and so on). [/quote]

I did too and hated that there was no A minus. It was a dumb system. 92-100 should be some form of an A. Glad that change went through. Also I believe you could drop a bad grade per semester. You could also sometimes turn work in late but like one day late.[/quote]

That grading system was way out of step with every other grading system in the country which hurt college admissions.[/quote]

I went to FCPS through middle school but moved to a different county outside of NoVA for high school. We didn't have pluses or minuses in high school at all. An A was 94-100, B was 85-93 and an 84 was a C (and I don't remember anything below that). We still managed to do well with admissions and the top 10% of our small class went to UVA, W&M etc. Colleges see what grading scale is being used.

I actually just looked and the county still has [b]just A, B, C but now the scale is A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79. [/b]That seems crazy to me. Apparently grade inflation isn't just an urban area phenomenon.[/quote]

Nope..  Minimum score to achieve...
A=92.5
A-=89.5
B+=86.5
B=82.5
B-=79.5

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale
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WHen the county made the changes it was to put them more in line with common practice at the time--it was based on a review of practices. In the early 1990s I went to a top school district in the midwest, and the score distribution was:  A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79. for GPA but  -'s and +'s were written on report cards and if you got a 92 it was an A- and an 88 was a B+.

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