Grading and Report Cards

Report Cards, Progress Reports, and HISD Connect

Report Cards will be sent home with your scholar at the end of each six-week grading cycle. The academic grades will reflect classwork, homework/projects, class projects, and assessments completed during that period.  Progress Reports will be sent home with your scholar at the 3^rd week of each grading cycle to summarize averages in each subject area and to report scholar conduct. The report card and the progress report should be signed and returned to school on the following day. 

HISD Connect Parent Portal is available at any time and parents are highly encouraged to check grades daily to stay abreast of their scholar's academic performance. These reports are to notify parents of their child’s progress. Please contact the campus, email the teacher, or send a ParentSquare message to request a conference with a teacher regarding grades. The teacher will then contact the parent directly to schedule a conference.

All grades will be numerical averages rather than letter grades.  Please use the following scale for interpretation of grades:

 

Conduct and Elective (Ancillary) Grades will be marked with one of four letter grades to be interpreted as follows:

 

The report card grade requirements for promotion are as follows:

 

Scholars must also meet HISD requirements on various standardized tests to be unconditionally promoted to the next grade level. Scholars who have excessive absences will have an *NG after their grades (i.e. 90*) and must be reviewed by the attendance committee to be considered for promotion to the next grade level.

Grading Policy

Number of Grades for Report Card Averages (Kindergarten – 2^nd Grade)

– Minimum of 12 grades per six-week grading cycle per subject area – Reading, Language Arts, Math, and a minimum of 6 grades per six-week grading cycle for Science and Social Studies

 Number of Grades for Report Card Averages (Grades 3-5)

– Minimum of 12 grades per six-week grading cycle per subject area – Reading &Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies/Art of Thinking.

There is no minimum grade policy.  Grades can range from 0 to 100. 

 Core subject (Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art of Thinking) grades will be weighted as outlined below:

Category	Weight
Unit/Module Assessments	X 4
DOL Weekly Summary	X 2
LSAE Assignment	X 1
Teacher Assignment	X 1

 

Teacher Grade Books will be monitored weekly by the Leadership Team to ensure grading policies are being followed and all assignments are meaningful and relevant to the content curriculum.  

Re-assessment

A scholar may be allowed one opportunity to retake common assessments, benchmarks, quizzes, and individual classroom assessments for which the scholar received a failing grade (69 or below). Retakes must be administered within two weeks of the initial grade, and the substitute grade recorded for the retake will not be higher than 70.

Late Work

Our late work policy ensures fairness and accountability. Teachers will accept late assignments up to one week after the due date with a possible grade reduction. Beyond this period, acceptance of late work is at the teacher's discretion, and may result in additional penalties. Special circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Teachers shall take no more than 5 points off the first day for late assignments. Each subsequent late day will result in up to a 2-point daily deduction. 

Make-up Work After Absences

Scholars who present acceptable excuses for absences will be given the opportunity to make up missed class work. 

Lockhart is required to provide make up work to scholars who have been excused for observing religious holidays. Lockhart is required to give scholars a reasonable amount of time, no more than five (5) days to complete such make up work.

Scholars whose absences are excused, but who fail to make up work within a designated period of time assigned by the classroom teacher, will not receive credit for work they have missed. The scholar will receive a zero (0) for whatever work was assigned but not completed within the designated period of time set by the teacher.

Make-up Work for Days Suspended

When a scholar is suspended from school, all days missed by the scholar during the suspension period will be considered excused absences. The scholar will be required to make up all work missed during the days of suspension. If the scholar makes up the work, the grades from the make-up work will be averaged with other grades to determine the six-week cycle grade. There will be no other impact on the scholar’s grade because of suspension.

All work must be made up within five (5) school days upon the scholar’s return from the suspension. The scholar will receive a zero (0) for whatever work was assigned for the day(s) suspended that is not made up in the five-day period.

Grades and Extracurricular Activities

Under Texas's “No Pass, No Play” law, eligibility for extracurricular activities is tied to academic performance:

• For the first six weeks of the school year, eligibility is based on a student’s final grades or credits earned from the previous school year.
• After the first six weeks, any student who earns a grade below 70 in an academic course becomes ineligible to participate in extracurricular competitions or public performances for the first three weeks of the next grading period (until progress reports are issued).
• During this ineligibility period, the student may continue to practice or rehearse but may not compete or perform publicly.
• If the student earns passing grades (70 or above) on the next progress report, they regain eligibility and may resume full participation in extracurricular activities.

This policy ensures that academic success remains a priority for all students involved in extracurricular programs.