Dear Hopewell High School student and parents:

Scores for the 2015 Spring Keystone Exams will be mailed home in the near future.  Proficiency on the Keystone Exams in Literature, Algebra I and Biology is a graduation requirement beginning with the class of 2017.  If your student has earned a proficient score on theses exams, congratulations, they don’t need to continue taking them.  If your student has yet to earn a score of proficient or advanced the Pennsylvania Department of Education requires Hopewell to offer them remediation courses. Remediation course have been scheduled for students and will appear on their schedules. 

These remediation courses will be online courses through the Hopewell Cyber Academy.  The purpose of these courses is to help our students strengthen their knowledge base about critical subjects without being required to re-take a whole course.  Each course will be worth a half credit and will be put on transcripts and they will count towards the student’s GPA and class rank.  Near the end of the course(s) students will re-take the Keystone Exams.  If a proficient or advanced score is not earned, the student will be rescheduled for the remediation course for the second semester and will again retake the exam.  If proficiency still is not achieved, the student will be required to complete a Project Based Assessment to demonstrate proficiency.

Achieving proficiency on the Keystone Exams is a graduation requirement.  Remediation courses are mandatory and will be put on student’s schedules in lieu of electives and/or study halls.  Students have the option of working from home if they do not have any study halls and are adamant about keeping an elective(s).   Students and parents may contact their counselor to speak about this option. 

Educationally,

Douglass C. Rowe

Principal