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Title Copy of PROMOTION, ACCELERATION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION
Code po5410

Status

Legal WV Code 18-5-46

West Virginia Board of Education policy 2510

Adopted January 22, 2015
Last Revised March 2, 2023
Last Reviewed February 13, 2023

5410 - PROMOTION, ACCELERATION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION

The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that
they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.

It shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth
that is in harmony with his/her own development.

Such pattern skeuldshall coincide with the system of grade levels established by this Board and the Content Standards and
Objectives established for each.

PROMOTION

A student witshall be promoted to the succeeding grade level/course when s/he has successfully completed the course(s)
and State-mandated requirements at the presently assigned grade level.

ACCELERATION

A student may be accelerated when his/her demonstrated achievement, as well as measured ability, significantly exceeds
that of his/her grade level peers. Consideration may be given to promoting him/her to a grade other than the next
succeeding one (1), or permitting him/her to enroll in a course other than the next one (1) in the academic sequence.
Dependent upon the placement and rigor of the option—the more permanent or rigorous, the more advanced the criteria
will be.

Acceleration Options:

A. Early Entrance Kindergarten

B. Grade-Based Acceleration


C. Content Acceleration

D. Credit by Examination for high school students

E. Independent Study

F. Early Graduation from high school
RETENTION
A student may be retained at his/her current grade level when s/he is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the
student skewtdshall be promoted to the next grade level, based on the recommendation of the school intervention team.
The teacher's recommendation relating to whether a student should be promoted to the next grade level shall be a primary
consideration when making such determination.

PLACEMENT

A student may be placed at the next grade level when promotion best serves the educational needs of the student, based
on the recommendation of the school intervention team.

ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES

The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, acceleration, placement, and retention of
students that:

A. require the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, acceleration, placement, or retention;
B. require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level;

C. require that the parent(s) give their consent to the acceleration of their child;

D. assure that efforts witshall be made available to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained;

E, at grades K-7 assign to the school intervention team the final responsibility for determining the promotion,
acceleration, placement, or retention of each student;

F. at grade 8, the transition year to high school, advancement shall be based on successful completion of two (2) of the
four (4) core areas.

G. at the high school level advancement shall be based on credits earned. Class placement shall be based on current
state and county graduation requirements as follows:

Freshman 0 credits
Sophomore 6 credits
Junior 12 credits
Senior 19 credits

Cross Reference

po5111 - Eligibility of Resident/Nonresident Students for Enrollment
po5421 - Grading

po9270 - Home Instruction

Revised 3/19/15
Revised 6/11/20
Revised 2/13/23

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