Guides to the SFUSD report card
The elementary report card is a good document explained badly. These guides put the district’s own wording next to what it means for the family reading it. Nothing here requires an account.
- 1What the 1, 2, 3 and 4 marks on an SFUSD report card mean
SFUSD report cards mark each standard 1 to 4 against the end-of-year expectation. The district's own wording for each mark, and why a 2 in the fall is normal.
- 2How the SFUSD elementary report card works across three trimesters
SFUSD elementary report cards come home three times a year. The trimester dates, how the card is laid out, and how to read one standard across T1, T2 and T3.
- 3How to read your child's SFUSD Star Reading and Star Math results
How to read the SFUSD District Assessments report: Star Reading and Star Math levels 1 to 4, scaled scores, and what the report leaves out.
- 4How to download your child's records from SFUSD ParentVUE
Where SFUSD ParentVUE keeps report cards, Star reports and state test scores, how to download them, and what Toward June does with the files.
- 5An SFUSD report card glossary for parents
Plain-language definitions for the words on an SFUSD report card: standard, end-of-year expectation, trimester, language pathway, Star, scaled score, ELPAC.
- 6Hero quest: a free math and reading game for TK to grade 5
Hero quest is a free practice game for SFUSD families: a child builds a hero and practises math and reading at their grade, with no ads, purchases or scores.