Understanding Your Child's Report Card

We are often asked what the typical progression of standards-based scores is for the standards that are included on report cards.  

After examining data from the past several years, we have developed the typical progressions shown below, including:

  • Typical progression through a full school year
  • Typical progression through a trimester

Within each of these time ranges–full school year and trimester–we  also show progressions for standards that repeat in more than one trimester and progressions for standards that do not repeat–meaning that they occur in only one reporting period (trimester).  


Typical Progression Through a Full School Year

Some standards repeat in Trimester 1, Trimester 2, and Trimester 3. 
Some standards repeat in Trimester 1 and Trimester 2 only.
In the tables below, "On Track" means that the student is where he or she is expected to be.

• Standard REPEATS in Trimester 1, Trimester 2, and Trimester 3

end of
Trimester 1		 end of
Trimester 2		 end of
trimester 3		 Post Trimester
(For students
still scoring
Below 3.0)
On Track
(Most students):
1.5, 2.0, 2.5		 On Track
(Most students):
2.0, 2.5		 On Track
(Most students):
3.0, 3.5

Teachers in the next grade
will receive Report Card
info and will address
skills and knowledge not
at the mastery level
Some students:
3.0, 3.5, 4.0		 Some students:
3.0		 Some students:
4.0


• Standard REPEATS in Trimester 1 and Trimester 2

end of
Trimester 1		 end of
Trimester 2		 Post
Trimester 2
(For students still
scoring below 3.0)
On Track
(Most students):
1.5, 2.0, 2.5		 On Track
(Most students):
3.0, 3.5		 Support for students to learn
and demonstrate proficiency
at 3.0 will occur
during Trimester 3
Some students:
3.0, 3.5, 4.0		 Some students:
4.0		  

 

Typical Progression Through a Trimester

Some standards are taught in one Trimester only (on the Report Card for one Trimester only) and do not repeat. 
Some standards repeat in two or three trimesters.
In the tables below, "On Track" means that the student is where he or she is expected to be.

• Standard DOES NOT repeat  (It is on the Report Card for one Trimester only)

Beginning
of the
Trimester		 Middle
of the
Trimester		 End
of the
Trimester		 Post
Trimester
(For students
still at 
1.0 or 2.0)
On Track
(Most students):
1.0, 1.5, or 2.0		 On Track
(Most students):
1.5, 2.0, or 2.5		 On Track
(Most students):
3.0		 Support for students
to learn and demonstrate
proficiency at 3.0 will
occur during Trimester 3
Some students:
2.5, 3.0, 3.5, or 4.0		 Some students:
3.0, 3.5, or 4.0		 Some students:
3.5 or 4.0		  

 

• Standard REPEATS in one or more Trimesters  (Standard will appear again in future Trimesters)

Beginning
of the
Trimester		 Middle
of the
Trimester		 End
of the 
Trimester		 Post
Trimester
On Track
(Most students):
1.0, 1.5, or 2.0		 On Track
(Most students):
1.5, 2.0, or 2.5		 On Track
(Most students):
1.5, 2.0, or 2.5		 Instruction will 
continue into the
next trimester
Some students:
2.5, 3.0, 3.5, or 4.0		 Some students:
3.0, 3.5, or 4.0		 Some students:
3.0, 3.5, or 4.0