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ACADEMICS<br />
GRADING SYSTEM<br />
<strong>Taft</strong>’s academic grading system includes a 40 to 100 achievement scale and an A to D effort scale.<br />
Grades of 87 and above are honors grades, while grades of 93 and above are high honors. <strong>The</strong> honor<br />
roll is comprised of students who earn an academic average of 87 or above for a semester; the highhonor<br />
roll is comprised of students who earn an average of 93 or above for a semester. A 60 is the<br />
passing grade, while a 59 or lower indicates failure. A 40 is the minimum achievement grade in<br />
any course.<br />
Report cards will indicate students’ achievement and effort grades in each course. <strong>The</strong> following<br />
designations are used for indicating effort:<br />
A<br />
B<br />
C<br />
D<br />
Exemplary<br />
Satisfactory<br />
Occasionally Unsatisfactory<br />
Unsatisfactory<br />
Each report card, in addition to reporting a student’s achievement and effort grade for each class,<br />
will also include the average achievement grade for all students enrolled in a particular course. This<br />
information is often helpful to those seeking to understand a student’s progress and relative success,<br />
but any questions should be directed to the appropriate class dean.<br />
Copyright the New Yorker Collection 2002, Tom Cheney from Cartoonbank.com. All rights reserved.<br />
8 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Taft</strong> <strong>School</strong>
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