| Medina City Schools |
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5410 - PROMOTION, 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 shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth that is in harmony with his/her own development.
A student will be promoted to the succeeding level when s/he has:
| A. | completed the course requirements at the presently assigned level; | |
| B. | demonstrated the degree of social, emotional, and physical maturation necessary for a successful learning experience in the next grade. |
A student may be placed at the next level when retention would no longer be of benefit to the student. Placement decisions will be made collaboratively by teachers and administrators according to guidelines established by the Superintendent.
The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, placement, and retention of students which:
| A. | require the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, placement, or retention; | |
| B. | require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level; | |
| C. | assure that efforts will be made to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained; | |
| D. | require that a student be retained if s/he is truant for 10% or more of the required school days and has failed at least two (2) courses of study, unless the principal and the teachers of the failed subjects determine that the student is academically prepared to be promoted; | |
| E. | assign to the principal the final responsibility for determining the promotion, placement, or retention of each student. |
R.C. 3313.609, 3313.647
A.C. 3301-35-02 (B) (5)
Revised 8/16/99