Scholastic Credits

Last Update: 3/25/2008

Basis for grades
Grade reports are issued to high school students to take to parents/guardians approximately every 22 school days. Grades are reported as alphabetic letters and are determined by the percent scale shown below.

Final grades are accumulative, representing all class work from the beginning of the course to the date of the report. Each successive report is not the average of previous grade reports; rather, it represents the compiled scores of all daily lessons, homework, projects, quizzes, examinations and other classroom assignments during the entire 22, 45, 67 or 90 days covered by the report.

Basis for credit
One unit of scholastic credit is based upon 180 class periods of 55 minutes net or 90 class periods of 90 minutes net. The minimum amount of credit which may be awarded is one-half unit. In order to receive credit, the student must have passing grades (A, B, C, D) and 93% class attendance.

Credit for Cooperative Education is earned through the regular class in which the student is enrolled. The student may earn one (1) credit for the work-based learning method plus one (1) or two (2) class credits. Students must work a minimum of ten (10) hours per week to earn one credit in a class for Cooperative Education. Student accounting is documented through the Cooperative Methodology/Supervision Period course code.

Recording of credit
Scholastic grades and credits are recorded on the student’s cumulative record per semester. The length of a semester is 90 days. Grades of one-half unit courses ending at mid-semester (45 days) shall be reported to parents immediately and shall be repeated on the student's grade card and transcript label at the end of the 90-day semester.

High school courses completed prior to grade nine
Beginning with the entering freshmen class of 2008, a high school course completed in a Knox County middle school shall be awarded high school credit if the student satisfies the following:

1. Successfully passes the course

2. Achieves the pre-requisite score on the Gateway/EOC

3. Is recommended for the next course in the sequence

Students entering high school from outside Knox County and having completed a high school course may receive high school credit for the course if the course appears as credit on the sending high school's transcript or the sending high school verifies it accepts the course for credit.

Once the student is assigned to the next sequential level of the subject in grade nine, the student is given a trial period of approximately three weeks to demonstrate satisfactory progress.  At the discretion of the high school principal, a student whose progress is not satisfactory may revert to the preceding level (the level completed in middle school), in which case the awarding of high school credit shall be deleted from the high school record for the course completed in the middle school.