The holistic grading model

Your grade is no longer based on one thing. It is built from six different categories that together give a complete picture of who you are as a student.

Two tiers that work together

The model is organized into two tiers. The first tier covers things that apply to every class you take. The second tier covers what happens inside each specific class. Together they make up 100% of your grade.

Tier 1 — Holistic (applies to all your classes equally)

Meeting Attendance

Did you show up on time and fully prepared for your scheduled teacher meeting?

10% of grade

Regular Engagement

Did you engage consistently through the Daily Discussion Forum and your digital textbook throughout the week?

5% of grade

Faith-Based Community Values in Action (Faith-in-Action)

Did you put your values into action this section — serving others, building community, living with integrity? This is the applied expression of CPA’s ESLRs.

5% of grade

Tier 2 — Class-specific (graded separately for each course)

Curriculum Grade

Your scores in the digital textbook (Edmentum/Apex curriculum) — quizzes, tests, and graded activities. The largest single category in your grade.

40% of grade

Assigned Work Completion

Did you complete the assigned journals, worksheets, essays, projects, and other work for each section?

10% of grade

Meeting Content — Learning Verification

Can you explain, defend, and discuss what you actually learned in your scheduled meeting? This is the most important category in Tier 2 and the one that cannot be faked.

30% of grade

What your overall grade looks like

Category	Tier	Weight
Curriculum Grade	Class-specific	40%
Meeting Content — Learning Verification	Class-specific	30%
Assigned Work Completion	Class-specific	10%
Meeting Attendance	Holistic	10%
Regular Engagement	Holistic	5%
Faith-Based Community Values in Action (Faith-in-Action)	Holistic	5%
Total		100%

Understanding the weights

The Curriculum Grade carries the most weight at 40%. This is the largest single category because your academic performance in the digital textbook is still central to your education.

The Meeting Content — Learning Verification category is the second largest at 30%. Even though it is smaller than the curriculum grade on paper, it is the most meaningful category in Tier 2. It is the one place where your genuine understanding is proven live, in real time, directly to your teacher. An AI tool cannot sit in that meeting for you.

Together these two categories account for 70% of your grade — rewarding both consistent academic performance and the ability to show that you actually learned what you were studying.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6