Los Lunas Schools

K-6 Standards-Based Report Cards
& Competency Cards

How Will the Standards-Based Report Card help students?

Students know their academic expectations
Students are able to make connections between classroom lessons and the content standards
Students are able to distinguish between levels of performance to meet personal academic goals

How will the Standards-Based Report Card help parents?

The new report card will provide parents with detailed information about their child's academic progress toward achieving grade level standards
Parents can identify their child's academic strengths and needs
If a child struggles in learning a standard, parents will know exactly which area to provide review and practice at home
The Standard-Based Report Card provides a focused and detailed profile of your child's academic performance

Why use a Standards-Based Report Card?

The standards-based report card allows parents to see their child's progress in each academic standard
With a standards-based report card, parents can monitor their child's progress as he/she works toward each of the NM State Content Standards

What are Content Standards?

On the national level, No Child Left Behind brings regulations regarding student achievement that is focused on state standards.

Standards were created by the state of New Mexico to determine the proficiency levels of students by the end of each year in school.
K-12 Grade level Power Standards were created by teacher teams from the NM State Standards in 2006:
- Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts and Physical Education

Why Use Content Standards?

The standards-based reform is an effort to increase student achievement by setting high academic standards and working to help all students achieve the standards
All students are expected to be proficient in their grade level standards by the end of the school year
A complete list of the grade level standards can be found on the our Curriculum Standards Web page

How will Standards be graded?

*-Advanced
Achieving beyond Grade Level Standards

3 Proficient
Achieving Grade Level Standards

2 Progressing
Progressing toward Grade Level Standards

1 Beginning Steps
Instruction and/or understanding in progress

0 Skill not demonstrated/Intervention indicated

Previous Report Card vs. Standards-Based Report Card

DRAFT forms of the following will be available soon:

K-6 Report Cards English

K-6 Report Cards Spanish

Student Competency Cards (What Your Child Will Know and Be Able to Do) by grade level K-6

Previous Report Card

Letter grades (A-F) reflect on Individual teacher's expectations.

Curriculum and instruction may be textbook driven, and not necessarily aligned with the content standards.

Subjects are listed by name.

4 times per year.

Standards-Based Report Card

Numerical levels indicate progress toward a defined standard, which is consistent district wide.

Curriculum and instruction are aligned with the state standards.

Major subjects are listed by content standard.

4 times per year.