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5410 - PROMOTION, ACADEMIC ACCELERATION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION
The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.
It is the Board's intent that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth that is in harmony with his/her own development.
Promotion:
A student will be promoted to the succeeding grade level when s/he has:
| A. | completed the course and State-mandated requirements at the presently assigned grade; | |
| B. | in the opinion of the professional staff, achieved the instructional objectives set for the present grade; | |
| C. | demonstrated sufficient proficiency to permit him/her to move ahead in the educational program of the next grade; | |
| D. | demonstrated the degree of social, emotional, and physical maturation necessary for a successful learning experience in the next grade. |
Academic Acceleration:
A student may be accelerated when his/her demonstrated achievement, as well as measured ability, significantly exceeds that of his/her grade level peers. Consideration may be given to promoting him/her to a grade other than the next succeeding one (i.e., whole-grade acceleration), or permitting him/her to enroll in a course other than the next one in the academic sequence (individual subject acceleration). A student will be accelerated in this manner when s/he has:
| A. | achieved the grade/course objectives and State-mandated requirements, if applicable, for the grade/course in which s/he is presently enrolled as well as for the grade(s)/course(s) that will be skipped; | |
| B. | in the opinion of the professional staff, achieved the instructional objectives set for the present grade/course as well as the succeeding one(s); | |
| C. | demonstrated sufficient proficiency to permit him/her to be accelerated in the educational program; | |
| D. | demonstrated the degree of social, emotional, and physical maturation necessary for a successful learning experience in the grade/course to which s/he will be promoted or enrolled. |
Retention:
A student may be retained at his/her current grade level when s/he has:
| A. | in the opinion of the professional staff, failed to achieve the instructional objectives set forth at the current grade level that are requisite for success at the succeeding grade level; | |
| B. | scored at the below basic level on any State-mandated proficiency test. |
A student may be placed at the next grade level when retention would no longer benefit the student.
The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, academic acceleration, placement, and retention of students that:
| A. | consider the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, academic acceleration, placement, or retention; | |
| B. | require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level; | |
| C. | require that the parent(s) give their consent to the academic acceleration of their child; | |
| D. | assure that efforts will be made to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained; | |
| E. | assign to the principal the final responsibility for determining the promotion, academic acceleration, placement, or retention of each student; | |
| F. | provide parents the opportunity to appeal the decision about their child's promotion, academic acceleration, placement, or retention. |
R.C. 3313.608, 3313.608(D), 3313.609, 3313.647, 3324.10
A.C. 3301-35-02(B)(5)
Revised 8/21/06