Grade Reporting & Grading Procedure • Grading Scale: Credit Percent Grade Points Range A+ 4.333 98–100 A 4.000 93–97 A- 3.667 90–92 B+ 3.333 87–89 B 3.000 83–86 B- 2.667 80–82 C+ 2.333 77–79 C 2.000 73–76 C- 1.667 70–72 D+ 1.333 67–69 D 1.000 63–66 D- 0.667 60–62 F 0 Below 60 • Veracross Access: Students and parents can access Veracross at https://portals. veracross.com/wca. Students and parents will gain access to Veracross by using their login and password provided by the school. • Incompletes (“I”): If students fail to make up daily work or tests due to recent or extended illness, they will receive an incomplete (“I”) on their grade report. They must make up this work or make special arrangements with their teacher within one week after the last day of the grading period to prevent the incomplete from becoming an “F.” Students assume responsibility for initiating contact with teachers regarding incompletes. • A course is completed on the final day of the semester. No makeup work may be submitted after the exam day for that course. • Honors Credits: Students enrolled in courses designated as “Honors Courses” will receive an additional 0.5 point added to grade of “C-” or above in that course (i.e. a student receiving a grade of “B” in an honors course will receive a 3.5 instead of a 3.0). All AP courses receive an additional 1.0 point. Please refer to the Online Course Selection Guide for a complete listing of all Honors, Excel, and AP courses offered at Westminster. • When a student retakes a class for which he or she has already received a grade, both the original grade and the second grade will be reported on the student’s transcript. The second grade – not the first – will be used to compute the student’s GPA, whether the second is an improvement or not.
National Junior Honor Society/National Honor Society A National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) chapter (Grades 7–9) and the John B. Prentis III National Honor Society (NHS) chapter (Grades 10-12) are sponsored by Westminster. Both organizations are governed by the Constitution of the National Junior and National Honor Societies. In order to be eligible for consideration for membership in both the NJHS and NHS, students must have an unweighted cumulative grade point average of 3.500 or above for NHS and 3.750 or above for NJHS and be enrolled at Westminster for at least one semester. After meeting the scholarship requirement, candidates will also be evaluated in regard to leadership, character, service (and citizenship for NJHS), as per the requirements of the national constitution.
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