To explore and create an assessment system that consistently communicates both student achievement aligned to essential learning outcomes and non-academic factors aligned to 21st Century skills. 

A student report card will report the Achievement Grade and Term Grade separately. The Achievement Grade is the compiled grade of projects, assignments and tests at the conclusion of learning.  The term grade is calculated with the following grades/percentages.

Academic Life Skills Rubric

Compacted/Accelerated Math Instruction at the Middle School

Holmen Middle School provides accelerated math classes for those math students who show they have the requisite skills and understandings to be successful in a rigorous accelerated class.  This accelerated math courses operate outside the TAG program.  Students who qualify for accelerated math instruction do not necessarily qualify for TAG services.

Students in the accelerated classes do not skip a year of math instruction but instead learn all four years of content in only three years.  The accelerated classes move much more quickly than the standard grade-level math classes.  For instance, in the sixth-grade accelerated math class, students cover all of the sixth-grade curriculum plus at least one-half of the seventh-grade curriculum.

To be considered for the sixth-grade accelerated class, fifth graders first must take the district placement test.  Because of the rigorous nature of the class, the placement test is not offered to all fifth graders.  Instead, students must qualify to take the district placement test.  In order to qualify, a student must meet only one of two criteria based upon performance on the Fall and Winter STAR tests OR a specified score on the mid-year district math assessment.  Students who qualify for the placement test will be informed in late winter or early spring.  The test then will be held during the school day prior to the end of the school year.

In order to then be enrolled in the accelerated class, students must achieve a specified score on the placement test plus again meet one of two criteria based upon performance on the Winter and Spring STAR tests OR a specified score on the end-of-year district math assessment.

Please be aware that Holmen Middle School does not place a certain number of students into the accelerated class.  Instead, the option to accelerate is offered only to those students who, based upon additional – and even more rigorous - qualification criteria, show that they have the necessary skills and understandings to be successful.

For more information on the compacted/accelerated math classes, please contact Holmen Middle School.