REPORT CARDS
Students in Grades K-5 will receive a report card three times a year. Each marking period,
parents/guardians will receive a copy of their child’s report card and be asked to return a signed
copy to their child’s teacher.
PROGRESS REPORT AND REPORT CARD SCHEDULE
*First Marking Period: August 28 th – October 25 th
*Second Marking Period: October 28 th – February 21 st
*Third Marking Period: February 24 th – June 4 th
Progress Report
Marks Close *
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January 10
May 1 st
October 25
February 21 st
June 4 th
Report Cards Issued
November 6 th
March 6 th
Last Day
* If snow days occur, dates will be adjusted to the number of snow days used.
GRADE K-5 PARENT GUIDE TO STANDARDS-BASED REPORT CARDS
Your child’s standards-based report card lists the most important skills students should learn by the
end of the school year in each subject at a particular grade level and is based on the Connecticut Core
Standards. Instead of traditional letter grades, students receive marks that show how well they have
mastered the skills and knowledge included in each grade level’s standards.
Teachers use a variety of assessments, including observations and evidence collected during the
course of the grading period, to determine each student’s level of proficiency. On your child’s
standards-based report card, you will see that each subject area is divided into a list of skills and
knowledge that your child will be expected to learn by the end of the school year. Your child will
receive a separate mark for each standard, which will indicate how well she/he is performing relative
to grade-level standards during that marking period.
Academic achievement for students in grades K-5 in Language Arts and Mathematics is based on the
domains below:
Language Arts
Mathematics
Foundational Skills
Reading Literature & Informational Texts
Language
Writing
Speaking & Listening
Mathematical Practices
Counting & Cardinality (Kindergarten only)
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Measurement & Data
Geometry
At the elementary level, there are three reporting intervals. For the first two intervals, students are
assessed on their progress toward end-of-year standards. In the final reporting interval, the report
card grades reflect a student’s actual achievement of the cumulative skills, strategies, and concepts
identified in the Connecticut Core Standards. It is expected that most students will achieve a grade
of ‘3’ by the end of the year for each grade level standard.
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