A school district’s academic standards are measured by their four year college attendance rates for High School graduates, MEAN SAT scores, and advanced placement class performance- not their grading scale.
You may ask yourself if a 10 point scale would “dumb down” Avon schools; however, other elite school districts, like neighboring Avon Lake, Westlake, and Bay Village have the standard 10 point scale and these schools carry no stigma of having “dumbed down” their schools.
Transforming current grading policies would not change the rigorous academic curriculum and high test scores that have given Avon its elite status among school districts. It would allow our students to compete at the same level as the other neighboring school districts.
One may think that the 10 point grading scale would lower academic standards; however, the Superintendants of Bay Village, Westlake, Avon Lake, and North Ridgeville would argue that the 10 point grading scale does not “lower academic standards.”