Credit Recovery and Replacement

Credit Replacement

Course Grade Replacement State rule provides students the opportunity to improve and replace grades on a transcript without penalty or acknowledgement of prior performance. Students that complete a repeat a course with a higher grade may have the prior course and grade excluded from their transcript.

Students who seek credit replacement for a course that was not failed (earned a grade of D- or better) may repeat a course to improve the grade, but may not earn additional credit toward graduation by repeating the course. If a higher grade is earned during the repeat of the course, the original grade and course are removed from the student’s transcript. If the same grade or a lower grade is earned, the original course and grade will remain on the student's transcript and the repeat course will not be added.

 

 Process for Credit Replacement:

1. Students may enroll in comparable course that fulfills the same graduation credit requirement as the course for which the student seeks to improve the grade. A comparable course is defined as a course of the same length, covering the same course content.

2. Students must enroll in a course through an accredited program, regardless of format (online, packet, or in-person). 

3. Once the course has been completed, the student or guardian should request that official scores, grades, and/or transcripts be sent to the SDJH counseling center.

4. Once SDJH receives official scores, the student's transcript will be updated accordingly.

Credit Recovery (Credit Remediation)

Our SDJH Counseling team works diligently to identify 9th grade students who are at risk in their progress towards high school graduation.

If a 9th grade student does not pass a core class required for graduation (F grade), the student does not receive credit, and is therefore, at risk for high school graduation. The student can restore the credit by completing the requirements for the course and term failed. Credit recovery courses are designed to enable students to master the core content standards. Each term failed is a separate credit recovery requirement.

 

 Process for Credit Recovery:

1. When a 9th grade student has been identified as at risk for graduation, the SDJH counseling team works with the student, parents, and credit recovery staff members to identify which courses the student failed (F grade).

2. Students are enrolled in the corresponding credit recovery course on Canvas. Support staff provides assistance and monitors student progress. (If multiple courses were failed, canvas courses are added one at a time. The next course is uploaded once the previous has been completed).

3. Once a credit recovery course has been completed, the student will receive graduation credit back to their transcript. The student can move on to the next credit recovery course if applicable.

4. The student's original F grade and GPA remains the same on their transcript.