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student’s graduation or retirement, a current and accurate copy of the student’s OST must be stored in the OSR folder.
The transcript will include the following information:
✦✦ the student’s achievement in Grades 9 and 10, with percentage grades obtained and credits earned for successfully completed credit courses;
✦✦ a list of all Grade 11 and 12 courses completed or attempted by the student, with the percentage grades earned and the credits gained;
Note:
✧✦ Only one credit will be granted for a course that a student has
successfully completed twice.
✧✦ If a student withdraws from a course within five instructional days
following the issue of the first provincial report card in a semestered school or five instructional days following the issue of the second provincial report card in a non-semestered school, the withdrawal is not recorded on the OST.
✦✦ confirmation that the student has completed the community involvement requirement;
✦✦ confirmation that the student has completed the provincial secondary school literacy requirement;
✦✦ confirmation that a student in a Specialist High Skills Major has completed all the requirements (see section 9.2).
The transcript may also contain special indicators such as identification of any course that has been substituted for one that is a diploma requirement (see section 6.2) and an indication of any extraordinary circumstances affecting the student’s achievement in a Grade 11 or 12 course.
The Ontario Student Transcript (OST) Manual provides the information and guidelines required for the establishment, maintenance, issue, and storage of the Ontario Student Transcript. It also outlines the procedures that apply to the recording of information in various situations.
Ontario Student Transcript (OST) Manual (2010) www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/ost/ost2010.pdf
4.2 Student Attendance
Students who are six years old on or before the first day of school are required to attend school until they reach the age of eighteen or graduate. School boards may offer a full day of learning to four- and five-year-olds (see section 2.1), but parents are not required to send their child to school until the child reaches the age of six.
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