6th is too late to start this.

Should be by 4th at least.

Since someone asked for names, WES grades start in 6.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our K-8th doesn't start till 7th! I hate it!

How does this work for applying for high school? They only have two years worth of grades?

Yes - HS applications only ask for 7th and 8th.

I think our k-8 started with formal grades on report cards in 5th grade.

However, I believe they started giving grades on assignments in 4th grade. The report card was still all narrative and they didn't accumulate grades over assignments during the quarter/semester - but they would start to see how points were being assigned to how well they did on the assigned material.

Anonymous wrote:Stop thinking that private schools are all the same on this. Some do in the elementary years, others don’t until middle or high school.

I’d love folks to share names of which schools do what. I can’t tell from the websites.

Stop thinking that private schools are all the same on this. Some do in the elementary years, others don’t until middle or high school.

Wow. I didn’t realize the privates weren’t giving grades. Our public ES has standards based grading and the HIGHEST you can get is Meets the Standard. It’s a big reason I’m leaving.

When do K-12s start doing letter grades?

Anonymous wrote:Exceeds expectations = A
Meets expectations = B
With Support = C
Does not meet = D

Our school has explicitly said that it doesn't translate this way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our K-8th doesn't start till 7th! I hate it!

How does this work for applying for high school? They only have two years worth of grades?

High school's only want 7th and 8th grades. The problem is I have a 6th grader who is generally doing well according to her report cards and conferences. But I don't really know if she's doing A level well or not. I have a feeling she's more of a B student but I don't really know. I wish there were at least grades in 6th so we knew where things stand before they truly matter for high school admissions.

Our starts in sixth. Before that, they get "meeting expectations" or "exhibiting strength" etc. we like the system. I don't see why they need grades earlier than that.

Exceeds expectations = A
Meets expectations = B
With Support = C
Does not meet = D
It's not hard to translate the 1-4s to letters if it matters to you.

A lot of the K-8s start in 6th because high schools look at grades and 7th & 8th, so you essentially get a practice year and then it counts.

Ours starts giving letter grades during the second semester of 6th grade. Prior to that, the kids' report cards contains ratings of "exceeding, proficient, developing" on roughly 10 skills per subject. These are accompanied by individualized narrative descriptions for each subject.

Just because a certain school's report cards don't have "grades," doesn't mean they aren't useful or descriptive about where a student stands academically.

Anonymous wrote:Our K-8th doesn't start till 7th! I hate it!

How does this work for applying for high school? They only have two years worth of grades?