Our grading system reflects your child’s overall grade-level mastery at a specific moment in time. Ongoing feedback from your child’s teacher communicates their individual progress toward mastery across the curriculum.

• MT = Meets grade-level standards

• MP = Approaching grade-level standards

• N = Needs Improvement

• NL = Insufficient Data

We intentionally separate grading and feedback as much as possible, knowing that research shows feedback is significantly less effective when paired with alphanumeric grading. Because feedback is critical to the learning process, we aim to ensure it has the greatest possible impact on student learning.

Grading in elementary school does not affect student access to future opportunities. Middle schools in our district do not consider grades, as admissions are determined by a lottery system. Private schools either contact us directly to understand our grading policies or, more commonly, use independent assessments to evaluate whether a student is a good fit for their community.

Click here to view frequently asked questions about grading at PS 39