• BLOCK SCHEDULE:

    Bob Jones is on a traditional block schedule. The vast majority of courses are semester-long, and accrue 1.0 credit. Students typically enroll in four courses in the fall semester, and four different courses in the spring semester. Final exams take place in December for fall semester classes, and in May for spring semester courses. Students typically will have two core classes (English, Math, Science, Social Science) and two elective classes each semester.

    TRANSFER CREDITS/GRADES:

    If a student transfers to Bob Jones during the school year from a high school that has a traditional schedule (year-long courses), it is possible that the student may lose the opportunity to earn credits for courses that were started at their sending school. For example, if a student was enrolled in eight year-long courses before transferring to Bob Jones in January, that student would be enrolled in only four semester-long courses in the spring at Bob Jones, leaving four of the original courses in which the student was enrolled unfinished, potentially with either only half-credits awarded or no credit (depending on the sending school’s policy for awarding credit). If the sending school only awards credit at the end of the academic year (not after each semester), the student may lose even more credits when transferring to Bob Jones.

    Letter grades transferred from previous schools will be placed on Madison City Schools’ Grade Point Average (GPA) scale using the following guide:

    • Give weight to incoming Advanced Placement (or International Baccalaureate), and Dual Enrollment courses based upon the MCS weighted grading scale. 
    • Give weight to Honors/PreAP courses that are recognized as such by Madison City Schools and/or Honors/PreAP courses that are recognized on the transcript of the previous school. 
    • Give MCS weight to Advanced Placement (or International Baccalaureate) courses even if the previous school did not weight AP since AP is a nationally standardized curriculum.