RUMFORD – Parents of kindergarten through grade eight students will see an altogether different kind of report card this year.

The elementary and middle grades will receive report cards with Es, Ms, Ps, and Ns instead of the traditional A, B, C and D. And besides that, they will get report cards three times a year, rather than quarterly.

It’s all part of the state’s requirement calling for report cards to provide information on how well a child is doing to meet standards. E means a student exceeded the standards, M means they met the standards, P means the student partially met the standards, and N means the standards were not met.

At the high school, new energy-saving windows have been installed, and at Virginia Elementary School, both new boilers have been installed.

Students at Meroby Elementary School will see new walls extending higher than the generally open atmosphere at the school. The walls, said Superintendent James Hodgkin, will provide more privacy and quietude for each classroom.

At Mountain Valley Middle School, several more special education or special program classrooms have been reconfigured.

In addition to the Maine Education Assessment and Stanford Nine tests, more grade levels will take standardized testing each year, and the work on the local assessment process will continue.

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