8th grade students taking high school classes for credit- any best practices?

@Alexandra Heines
When do you roll your students over for the next school year? We are struggling with the 8th grade enrollment during the school year in freshmen classes, but for summer, we roll them over in June as soon as grades post before summer session starts.

@Alexandra Heines
The best workaround that we have found is to create instances of the class that are identical, other than class roster, in both divisions. Students are then assigned to the section aligned with their grade level (MS or US). It's not perfect, as it flags in the system as a conflict for both the teacher and the room and it requires teachers to manage two separate instances for attendance, grading, etc., but as long as you are keeping note of these instances as the scheduler it's workable.

@Alexandra Heines Yes - we roll our 8th graders over and they can take a summer art class that counts in their 9th grade year. Our new academic year begins in the summer and ends with the spring semester graduation.

@Alexandra Heines
We had a similar situation in the past. The difference being that only students who earned a certain grade earned high school credit. We entered them as transfer courses for those students. We are able to tell it to include it in HS GPA calculation.

@Alexandra Heines It looks like in Core …. under manage users, you promote the grade levels individually …so you should be able to.