Weathersfield board weighs new grade scale

The school board also
accepted several donations

MINERAL RIDGE — The Weathersfield school board gave a first reading to a change in the grade scale for the high school, middle school and elementary school, to fall in line with computerized-based recording of grades being done by the Northeast Ohio Management Information Network, based in Champion.

The new scale versus the old scale is as follows:

U93 to 100, A, old; 93.6 to 100, new.

U84 to 92, B, old; 84.6 to 93.5, new.

U74 to 83, C, old; 74.6 to 84.5, new.

U64 to 73, D, old; 64.6 to 74.5 new.

U63 and below, F, old; 64.5 and below, new.

Board president Marilyn Besoui explained that the change is updating the district’s grading system. NEOMIN handles records by computer for many Mahoning Valley school districts.

Other action

In other business, the board accepted these donations: $1,860.80 from Seaborn Home and School Association to the Seaborn Elementary Library; 100 paper bags for recycling from Austintown Giant Eagle to the middle school Recycling Program; 188 yards of topsoil for the football field valued at $2,256 from Danny Persing of D&D Services; and an IBM typewriter valued at $100 donated by Ted Brown.

The board also approved the transfer of remaining funds from the Class of 2007 in the amount of $3,174.68 to the athletic fund to be used toward the purchase of a sound system for the high school gymnasium.