I never knew until this board that 8th-grade (or before) classes might show up on a HS transcript (even if algebra, Spanish 1 or whatever). That never happened for me, or for my kids. 
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For us, (as everything is) I suspect it is related to the UC/CSU requirements. On the UC/CSU applications you list math and LOTE taken in middle school if at high school level, as it is part of what they need to determine youâve met all the entry requirements. Our transcript shows the courses are taken as complete and notes if the requirements are met in 7th/8th grade, but does not show the actual grade (which I assume is because the CA publics donât use middle school grades in their GPA calculations).
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Depends on the HS. Mine showed, but only as credit â no grade
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We are in CA as well, and our kidsâ HS transcripts do not show any courses taken or requirements fulfilled in middle school. The HS transcript only shows HS courses. However, the math class taken by all public school 8th graders in our school district counts as the first year of HS integrated math, and many kids also take a language in 7th/8th. Students are instructed to enter these courses into UC/CSU applications even though they donât appear anywhere on the HS transcript.
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At our school, those middle school courses were not listed at allâŚbut for example, if a student was in Spanish 2 in grade 9, they would have needed to take Spanish 1 prior to that. If a student was accelerated in math, and took algebra 1 in middle schoolâŚthen the next course would have been geometry in grade 9.
And the grades from any middle school courses that could have been high school ones were not included in the GPA at all for HS.
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same with our CA district.
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At the K-12 private school my kids attended, high school classes taken in middle school were listed with a grade. They were not included in the GPA calculation. The public schools in my area do the same thing. I highly doubt that college adcoms use those grades evaluatively but they see them. Op should check with their school to confirm that they include middle school classes in the high school GPA calculation.
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Ok so, maybe more to do with the fact that our k-8 and high school districts work very closely together? (everything is seamless, the kids automatically get placed in the appropriate high school with all the info they need to choose courses etc given them to at the middle school, it basically feels like the same district from the student/parent perspective. I donât know if other districts work like this because this is the entirety of our US schooling experience.)
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We have just one high school in our district and 3 middle schools. Itâs probably no less seamless than your district⌠Different districts simply do things differently.
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Yeah, I think it is regional/district dependent and has nothing to do with how close-knit or whatever system is. Or at least that is my experience take.
The places I am talking about had 1 middle school, 1 HS in 1 district. couldnât be more seamless. The teachers were all under 1 district head, etc.
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We had HS classes taken in MS with grades on final transcript (almost every student took foreign language and geometry in MS in our area.) If student took the same class twice, grade replacement was possible and only later grade appeared.
same thing done where we are, New Jersey. It is assumed if you started with geometry and/or spanish 2 in 9th grade it is because you took Alg 1 and Spanish 1 in middle school. No grades or credits factored in.
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