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    The individual teachers of Harvest Christian Academy are responsible for establishing grading criteria and standards for each course.  It is the responsibility of the individual instructor to document student performance in order to justify all grades given. 

For grades 1-3: It is acceptable to use the "WISE" code for documenting student progress

For grades 4-12, letter grades are required. The following scale is recommended by HCA unless otherwise specified by the instructor:

It is important that the grading criteria be clear to the student at the onset of the course. 
The following is a sample of howa grading criteria might be structured for a biology course:

25% Daily assignments
25% Quizes
25% Lab Reports
25% Final Exam

It should also be clear when assignments are due and what the consequences will be for late work.

Honor's credit can be granted for high school courses that meet one of the following criteria:

1. Honor's courses must have distinctive features in terms of extended content and additional workload that set them apart from regular high school courses. Such courses are considered college-level. The course description must justify awarding honor's credit.

2.  The publisher designates the curriculum as honor's level.

3. Advanced Placement courses receive honor's credit. Call the HCA office for the availabiltiy of   APcourses for HCA students.

4. College courses taken during high school: Many colleges allow students to take courses while still in high school. While some are college-level and earn honor's credit, not all courses taken at community and 4-year colleges are college-level and therefore do not earn honor's credit. For example elementary and intermediate algebra are high school level courses and do not earn honor's credit, even if taken at a college.Contact the HCA office if you would like clarification on whether or not a class taken on a college campus is a college-level course.

1. Honor's courses must have established prerequisites.

2. Most honor's level courses are completed in 11th and 12th grades as most students are not ready for the demand of college-level courses prior to that time. Honor's credit assigned prior to 11th grade should be carefully considered according to the University of California guidelines. U.C. allows no more than 2 honor's courses during the 10th grade year and rarely are any allowed during the 9th grade year.