St. Clair County Schools

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Elementary Grading Information

Grading Core Beliefs

St. Clair County Schools has a collective view on elementary grading and believes in providing parents and students with an ongoing, consistent, and accurate reflection of student performance on individualized standards through an informative approach to grading.
Kindergarten and First Grade Standards-Based Report Cards and Rubrics
Rubrics clearly identify what students are able to do based on observations or performance-based assessments.
These rubrics are designed to help parents have a deeper understanding of their child's academic successes as well as areas of needed improvement.

Grading Rubrics:

Gold: Tests and Quizzes that make up 62.5% of the overall grade
Silver: Classwork that makes up 37.5% of the overall grade
Linked below are the curriculum resources utilized in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms with a description of the curriculum and who uses them in the schools. These resources are used in whole group settings with the entire class of students as well as in small groups or one-on-one with students to remediate or provide intervention in deficit areas.

Instructional planning in all St. Clair County Schools begins with the state adopted Course of Study. These standards go through a rigorous process of drafting, public review, and approval from the State Board of Education. All curriculum resources and assessments are aligned to the standards located in the Alabama Course of Study for each subject. Click the links below to access the different courses of study.
Parents and/or Legal Guardians may request access to view additional information regarding elementary curriculum materials in writing to the Elementary Coordinator, Leah Pendergrass. These requests may be sent to Contact to Leah Pendergrass.