March 25, 2022
Humble ISD will continue to adjust its high school grading procedures for the spring 2022 semester, as was done in the fall 2021 semester.
Instead of taking final exams that count as 20 percent of the semester average in each course, students in high school courses will take summative tests during the week of May 23-27 that allow students an opportunity to improve their grade in each course. The summative grade that students earn will replace the student’s lowest summative grade in the fourth nine weeks.
The semester grade will be the average of the third nine-weeks grade and the fourth nine-weeks grade. Semester grades are recorded on the report card and transcript and used to determine class rank.
Teachers will have flexibility in the type of assessment they offer. High schools will adjust their bell schedule during the last week of the semester for the summative tests. High schools will have early release on Thursday, May 26, and Friday, May 27, as shown on the 2021-2022 calendar.
Exam exemptions will not be a factor this semester because there will not be semester exams. If a student does not take the last summative and receives a 0, the 0 can be dropped as the lowest summative grade.
The adjusted grading procedures only affect Humble ISD high school credit courses. Students enrolled in college credit courses will adhere to the grading procedures of Lone Star College or the University of Texas OnRamps.
Students should be aware that beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, Humble ISD will reinstate administering final exams at the conclusion of the fall and spring semesters. While the district moved to giving summative tests, instead of finals, in May 2020 because of the impact of COVID-19 and students’ varying circumstance and learning environments, high school final exams will return in 2022-2023. Next school year, students will have an opportunity to exempt some exams based upon their grades and discipline. The attendance criteria that was a part of the exemption policy in previous years will no longer be a factor.
As always, please reach out to your child’s teacher or counselor if you have questions about your child’s academic progress.
Example of Spring 2022 Grading Procedure (No Final Exam):
Third Nine Weeks Grade: 86, Fourth Nine Weeks Grade: 94*
Nine Weeks Average: 86 + 94 = 180/2 = 90
Semester Grade: 90
*Lowest summative grade in the fourth nine weeks will be dropped from the nine-week average.