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Please see the PRHS Program of Studies on the district’s website for more information about curriculum, courses, and
academic life. Please also refer to the guidance website for more information about academics, career, and college
planning.

Grading System
✓ Students’ grades are the result of their efforts as evaluated by their teachers. Grades are based on the
quality of students’ academic progress in class as measured by their class participation, written work, examination,
projects and other assignments. Grades students earn each quarter appear as percentages on report cards four times
a year. Final grades for courses appear only as letter grades on student transcripts. The grading scale is as follows:

Percentages Letter Grade
90 - 100% A
80 - 89% B
70 - 79 % C
60 - 69 % D
0 - 59 % F

Graduation Requirements
✓ All graduation requirements are established by the Board of Education for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and the Board of Directors for the Pine-Richland School District.
✓ Pine-Richland School District requires students to earn a total of 24 credits in order to graduate in addition
to other requirements. Please see the PRHS Program of Studies for specific graduation requirements.

Incomplete Grades
✓ Students who have not completed the work for a class assigned during a quarter receive an incomplete grade
on their report card. Students have two weeks after the report card is distributed to complete the missing work. If the
work is not completed within two weeks of distribution of the report card, the missing assignments will be marked as
a zero and a new quarter grade will be calculated.

Mid-term and Final Exams
✓ Mid-term and final exams are given in year-long classes as a means of assessing how much knowledge has
been retained and how much knowledge can be applied. Mid-term and final exam scores appear separately on the
report card and are each worth 10% of the final course grade. Semester courses give final exams which are worth
20% of the final course grade.

Report Cards
✓ Report cards are made available electronically via the Sapphire’s Community Web Portal (formerly Home
Access Center), the electronic student information system.

Cheating/ Plagiarism
✓ It is the responsibility of each student to submit work, assignments, and projects that represent his/her
own work. Cheating and plagiarism could include copying, providing or receiving answers, or theft of any of the
following: papers, tests, homework, etc. While consequences for cheating and plagiarism may vary, students
typically do not receive any credit or points for assignments on which they cheated or plagiarized.

Athletic Eligibility

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