For schools that teach Saxon
Place every applicant in your own Saxon courses.
When you sit down with a family, “ready for Saxon 7/6” means something to everyone at the table, including the teacher who will open the book on Monday. Placement Genius reports each applicant’s placement in the Saxon course names your teachers use, with every gap named as a skill and the course where your sequence teaches it.
For applicants entering grades 3–8, in math and language arts.
How the report speaks Saxon
Math places in Saxon levels, not grades: “Ready for Saxon 6/5,” because schools place the same level at different grades. At setup you tell us which grade uses which level. Classical language arts is usually a stack of programs, so it places by grade, with the stage your classical sequence reaches at that grade named beside it.
Many Saxon schools also teach Latin. The test does not measure Latin.
You set your curriculum once, by subject and grade. If a grade runs a different program or level, you change that one grade, and the report follows what you actually teach.
| Grade | Math | Language arts |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Saxon 3 | Grade 3 (formal grammar + progym Fable) |
| 4 | Saxon 5/4 | Grade 4 (Classical Composition I) |
| 5 | Saxon 6/5 | Grade 5 (Narrative stage) |
| 6 | Saxon 7/6 | Grade 6 (Chreia & Maxim) |
| 7 | Saxon 8/7 | Grade 7 (Refutation & Confirmation) |
| 8 | Saxon Algebra ½ | Grade 8 (Common Topic) |
Out of sequence is not the same as behind
Many of your applicants are public-school transfers. When a public school teaches a skill a year later than your Saxon sequence does, a transfer who has not met it yet is out of sequence, not behind. The report keeps the two apart, and it uses the gentler wording only when it is true for the child.
That is the sentence a worried parent most needs to hear, and the card prints it in words you can say across the table, with a first-30-days plan for the skills to close.
How the Saxon pack was built
It comes from Saxon’s publicly published scope and sequence. It has not yet been checked in a pilot at a school that teaches Saxon. Until it has, we ask your teachers to review the mapping with us before you rely on it.
Placement Genius is not affiliated with or endorsed by Saxon or its publisher. The names above are used only to say which course a student is ready for.
See it in your own Saxon courses
Request a pilot and we will run a sample applicant against your curriculum profile, so you can see the card in your own course names before your next family meeting.
The sample card shows a school that uses Abeka for math and BJU Press for language arts. Download it (PDF)
Also for schools that teach Abeka, BJU Press and Purposeful Design.