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MENTONE — Mentone Elementary School Principal Randy Dahms updated the Tippecanoe Valley School Board on the school at the board's regular meeting Monday.
Mentone currently has 367 students, split between 176 girls and 191 boys.
Dahms noted students are "by and large ... at or above state averages in most cases" on the ILEARN English test and close on the math test as well.
He recognized second-grader Charlotte Treber for achieving a perfect score on the IREAD-3 test, aimed at third-graders.
Dahms and his staff also recognized the Mentone student council and spell bowl and math teams.
The board also heard from Tippecanoe Valley High School Principal Brandon Kresca about proposed changes to grading at the high school.
Currently, semester grades are calculated for each class with 40% of the grade being from the first quarter of the class, 40% from the second quarter and 20% from the final exam.
Kresca explained leaders were hoping to move toward a system with 30% of the grade from assignments, 55% of the grade from initial tests, quizzes, etc., 5% from a midterm exam and 10% from a final exam.
He said naming a valedictorian and salutatorian each year might be eliminated in favor of honoring groups who earned GPAs to reach summa cum laude, magna cum laude and the like.
No decision on the measures was made at the meeting.
The board's next regular meeting is 6 p.m. June 16 at Mentone.
