Grade Classification Policy	Honors Program
Advanced Placement Program	Enriched Courses
Co-Curricular and Interscholastic Eligibility	Special Services
Graduation Exit Examination	Grading Scale

     Grade classification requirements are based on credits earned and in accordance with the Caddo Parish School Board Pupil Progression Plan.
    To be classified as a Sophomore, a student must earn a minimum of 5 credits (including 4 in required classes).  To be classified as a Junior, a student must earn a minimum of 12 credits (including 7 in required courses).  To be classified as a Senior, a student must earn 18 credits (including 9 in required classes).
    Credits are checked at the end of each school year.  Students remain in the same classification for the entire school year.

    Honors level courses offer students the opportunity to pursue course content in greater scope.  Honors courses are offered in English I, II, III, and IV, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Biology I and II, Chemistry I and II, Physics, Civics, World History, and World Geography.  These courses are excellent preparation for the Advanced Placement courses at the junior and senior levels.
    To enroll in an honors class, it is suggested that the student has scored above the 85th percentile on a recent standardized test, has an A or B in prerequisite or related course, has the recommendation of the teacher in the same subject area, and has his/her parent's approval.
 
 

    Advanced Placement courses offer students the opportunity to do college-level work while still in high school.  They are available to academically qualified students in the eleventh and twelfth grades.  Upon completion of an AP course, the student may choose to take the nationally administered AP examination in May.  Depending on performance on the examination, the student may receive from three to twelve hours of college credit for each examination.  This makes it possible for a student to enter college at or near the sophomore level.
    Advanced Placement courses are offered in the following classes if enrollment is sufficient:  American History, Biology II, Calculus, Chemistry II, English IV, and Western Civilization.  AP courses are considered the highest level courses in the curriculum.
 
 

    The following courses are phased and may carry enriched credit:  Algebra I, American History, Biology, Civics, English, Geometry, and Physical Science.
    The following courses cannot be taken for general credit:  Advanced Math, Analytical Geometry, Biology II, Calculus, Chemistry, Computer Science, Creative Writhing, Debate, Discrete Math, Foreign Language II-IV, Human Anatomy, Novels, Physics, Probability & Statistics, and Speech II.
 
 

    To participate in extracurricular activities, a student must pass a minimum of 2 1/2 credit courses and have a minimum grade point average of 2.0.  This rule applies for each term as well as the final average.  Students who fail to meet these requirements may make up deficiencies through summer school and correspondence courses to attain eligibility for first term sports.
    Students not achieving a GPA of at least 2.0 and not earning at least 2 1/2 credits will be placed on probation for the following term.  If the GPA is below 2.0 and 2 1/2 credits are not earned by the end of the probation period, the student will be ineligible until such requirements are met.  The only exceptions are entering freshmen who are eligible for the entire freshman year.  The grades used to determine extracurricular eligibility art the 1st and 2nd term grades.
 
 

    The Special Services Program offers students the opportunity to obtain an education on a regular school campus in an appropriate school setting.  The program is designed to meet the individual needs of students, ranging from self-contained to full inclusion.
 
 

    Any student who graduates from a Louisiana high school must pass the Louisiana Graduation Exit Examination.  The Graduation Exit Examination is correlated with academic standards and benchmarks and is based on foundation skills.  The achievement levels on the GEE 21 are advanced, proficient, basic, approaching basic, and unsatisfactory. This examination consists of four components:  1)  English Language Arts Assessments, 2)  Mathematics Assessment, 3)  Science Assessment, and 4)  Social Studies Assessment.  Students take the English Language Arts Assessments, and Mathematics Assessment in March of their sophomore year and the Social Studies Assessment and Science Assessment in March of their junior year.  Students must pass the English Language Arts Assessments, the Mathematics Assessment, and the Science Assessment or the Social Studies Assessment.  Remediation classes and retake dates are scheduled for students who do not pass the test.
    The assessments are based on the following foundation skills:  Communication, Problem Solving, Resource Access and Utilization, Linking and Generation Knowledge, and Citizenship.  Questions on the assessments will cover strands from the state curriculum guides in each of the following areas:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS:  Writing, Using Information Resources, Reading and Responding, Proofreading, and Questionnaire.
MATHEMATICS:  Numbers and Number Relations, Algebra, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis Probability and Discrete Math, and Patterns, Relations, and Functions.
SOCIAL STUDIES:  Geography, Civics, Economics, and History.
SCIENCE:  Science as Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Science and the Environment.
 
 

    It shall be the policy of the Caddo Parish School Board that the grading scale for middle and secondary schools be a percentage-based grade.  Middle and secondary teachers will derive report card grades by averaging the students scores.
    At the high school level, these scores shall accumulate until the end of each quarter, at which time, if the percentage of the scores reflects a passing grade according to the grading scale, the student shall receive the appropriate Carnegie credit.
    Under a percentage-based grading system, grades on the report card reflect scores earned from the first day of the quarter through the last day of the quarter (for full-year courses).  At the high school level, the 4 1/2 week grade (mid-quarter grade) reflects the student's percentage of  scores (his/her progress) at that point during the quarter.
 
 

  Grades in phased subjects will be weighted as follows:
 

	Honors, Enriched, AP	General
A	5	4
B	4	3
C	3	2
D	2	1
F	0	0