Grade Policies 

 Class rank is compiled after the first semester of the senior year for the Williamson County Academic Excellence Banquet.  Final class rank is not announced until the end of the senior year. 

 For transfer students, the cumulative GPA on the transcript for transferred work will be used.  Recalculation will be made for honors and AP classes that were not given the same weight (less or more) as Williamson County students (.5 for Honors and 1.0 for AP). Recalculation will also be made if the GPA was not calculated on a 4.0 scale.  All students who are enrolled for the entire final semester of the senior year will be included in class ranking and honor recognition.

 Semester and final exams are required for all students with the following exception.  Seniors who have maintained a 91 average, have been absent no more than 6 days (including college visit days) during the semester and have not been suspended are exempt from exams for the qualifying class.

 To audit means to take a class for no credit.  Usually, a student audits the first-semester of a full-year course when in the previous year the student passed the first semester, but failed the 2^nd semester.  This practice allows the student to be ready to take the 2^nd semester for credit and be successful.  The student is required to complete all work, including tests and the semester exam. 

 Home-schooled students must pass Centennial departmental exams in order to receive credit for each course taken at the high school level.  It is the student’s responsibility to take these exams in a timely fashion. 

 College courses taken for college credit, even when taken for dual high school/college credit, are recorded as Credit or No Credit with no grade point (GPA) value.

 Progress Reports will be provided to students mid-way through each nine-week grading period. 

 Report Cards will be mailed at the end of each grading period.   

 Incompletes - A student receiving notice that a course is incomplete must complete the required work and receive a grade within ten school days after the end of the grading period or the incomplete automatically remains the grade as reported in the notice.  Only the principal may exempt a student from this policy.

 The Transcript is a historical document of all courses taken at CHS.  Letters, not  numbers, are used in reporting grades on the transcript.  All grades, passing and failing are permanently recorded on the transcript.  When a course is failed and then repeated either in WCS Summer School or during the regular school year, the new grade does not replace the failed grade.  The course and grade are added to the transcript and averaged into the cumulative GPA. 

 Averaging Policy:  For certain sequential courses, the averaging policy allows students to pass even though they fail first semester.  This is possible only if the average of both semester grades is 70% or higher.  Credit will not be given when the second semester grade is the failing grade.  Examples of sequential courses that fall into the averaging policy are Math, World Languages, Chemistry, Physics, and Accounting. 

 Credit Recovery:  Students who have attempted and failed a semester in certain course(s) may be approved to earn credit through the credit recovery program.  On the student’s transcript, “CR” will be listed by the course name to indicate the course was completed through Credit Recovery.  A maximum of six (6) credits during high school may be earned through a credit recovery program.

 The WCS Summer School Policy offers two sessions in summer school equivalent to two semesters in the regular year.  Summer school is most often remedial, serving to aid the student who has failed a course.  The summer school grade is included in the cumulative GPA.  It does not replace the failed grade.  Students can earn a maximum of 2 credits during summer school.  A maximum of six (6) credits may be earned throughout the high school career.

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