K-8 Promotion and Retention
- Academic Progression
K-8 Promotion and Retention
Updated
The Marana Unified School District is committed to providing each student the opportunity to achieve curriculum standards and successfully meet and exceed the Arizona Academic Standards. Criteria have been developed to provide each student with maximum opportunity to succeed in school. Promotion is based on students achieving competency skills necessary for success at each succeeding level.
Students, parents, and the school’s professional staff share the responsibility for academic achievement and regular advancement through the educational process. Promotion from year to year will be based upon the mastery of curriculum standards in reading, written communication, mathematics, science, social studies, and other required areas adopted by the State Board of Education.
Parents, students, and school personnel shall be made aware of the promotion/retention decisions-making process. Arizona Revised Statute 15-521(3) states that every teacher shall make the decision to promote or retain a student in grades K-8.
The retention decision should be based on sufficient data, collected over a period of time, so that students will be in a grade where they will be most successful. If a retention decision is made, retention will not be a repetition of the grade without modifications in the instructional program.
Student performance on the following items that are known to objectively measure student mastery of the Arizona Standards will receive primary consideration in the promotion and retention decision:
- Assessment of daily work, tests, quizzes, classroom assessments
- Standards Reports grades
- Report card grades
- AzMERIT assessment results
Secondary considerations may include attendance, motivation, conduct, and/or maturity. The final decision to promote or retain will be made on objective data.
Arizona Revised Statute 15-342 states that a parent or legal guardian who chooses not to accept the decision of the teacher(s) may appeal the retention to the Marana Unified School District Governing Board through the prescribed appeal process.