CSD Credit Guidelines

III.

Credit for Grading Period / Schedule Changes

A. In order to meet accreditation guidelines, students seeking high school credit for a course should be enrolled in that class no later than 10 school days after the beginning of a grading period. In addition, students seeking high school credit for a course should be transferred or withdrawn from a class no sooner than 10 school days before the end of the grading period. B. On the rare occasion that a class change is necessitated after the first 10 days of a grading period; the change should only occur within a content area and only with teacher and administrator approval. A content area means a subject area. For example, changing Secondary Math I to a Secondary Math II is within the Mathematics content area. (Changing from Mathematics to Ceramics is not within the same content area.) When such changes occur, the student’s current grade percentage from the class they are leaving should be transferred to the new class and averaged for a final grade for that grading period. C. If a student makes a class change after the first 10 days of the grading period that is not within the content area, then the student receives an F in the class that is being dropped and an NC in the new class until the new grading period begins. Changing content areas is highly discouraged and should not be recommended as a course of action. Exceptions can be made with administrator approval. D. Students who drop a class after the first 10 days of enrollment to enroll in an online class, will have an F posted on their transcript for the dropped class but will be eligible to earn full credit in the online class. Students are encouraged to enroll in online classes only at the beginning of each quarter or trimester. Exceptions can be made with administrator approval. E. Students who transfer from a school 10 school days or fewer before the end of the grading period will receive their final grades from the previous school attended. If students enroll before the last 10 days of the grading period, they will have the course grade percentages they brought with them from the previous school averaged with the course grades they earned in the current school. It is district procedure to attach the Skyward grade print out to the withdrawal sheet. Grades will not be posted until the official transcript has been received from the previous school. Students who enroll in school after the first 10 days of class without current grades from a previous school will receive a No Credit (NC). Exceptions can be made with administrator approval.