EXEMPTIONS FROM SEMESTER EXAMS

9th – 10th grade may be exempt from up to three non-core class exams per year for classes in which they meet the guidelines. The guidelines are as follows: students must have a semester average of 85 or above, have no more than two absences that semester from that class, and are present on the exam days when attendance is taken. Students will be required to take mid-semester exams in the fall in all EOC subjects; however they will not be required to take a spring semester final in EOC subjects.

Students in 11th – 12th grade may be exempt from three semester exams for classes in which they have a semester average of 85 or above and have no more than two absences that semester from that class, and are present on the exam days when attendance is taken.

Seniors and juniors may have up to four absences when two of those absences are the excused absences allowed for visiting colleges and universities. Only two days for college visits are allowed per year (see College Visits).

The second semester courses exempted shall not be the same courses exempted the first semester.

For exemption purposes only, three tardies count as an absence no matter where they occur across the schedule.