A report card error is the most public mistake a teacher can make. It goes home, a parent reads it at the kitchen table, and it comes back as a question at the next conference. Most of these errors are not about teaching at all. They are copying, rounding, and template mistakes that happen at eleven at night in the last week of the term.
This guide walks through the report card as DepEd Order No. 15, s. 2026 now defines it, part by part, with the checks that catch errors before the card is printed. For how the grades themselves are computed, see our guide to the MATATAG grading system and transmutation table.
The 10-second answer: For Grades 4 to 12 (and Grades 2 and 3 this school year) the report card is the Learner’s Performance Report in DO 15 Annex G: term grades for Terms 1 to 3, a final grade and remark per learning area, MAPEH with two sub-rows, the general average, monthly attendance, and teacher comments. Grade 1 uses the descriptive Learner’s Progress Report instead.
Which report card your class gets
| Grade level (SY 2026–2027) | Report card | Grades shown |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | Learner’s Progress Report with the PACE Form (Annex F) | A to E levels per competency and narrative remarks, no numbers |
| Grades 2 and 3 | Learner’s Performance Report (Annex G) | Numerical, with the adjusted transmutation table |
| Grades 4 to 10 | Learner’s Performance Report (Annex G) | Numerical |
| Grade 11 (Strengthened SHS) | Learner’s Performance Report, SHS layout | Numerical, by term, electives in the terms they are taken |
| Grade 12 | Your school’s Grade 12 template | DO 8, s. 2015 weights this school year (DO 15, Sec. 49) |
DO 15 notes that the SDO or school reproduces the template, so your school’s copy may differ slightly in layout. The content below is the same.
The header: copy, do not retype
The header asks for region, division, district, school, school year, and for the learner: name, LRN, age, sex, grade, section, and track for senior high. Copy every learner detail from the School Register (SF1). The single most common report card error is a name or LRN that differs from SF1, and it follows the learner into the permanent record. Our overview of how the DepEd school forms connect explains why SF1 is the source for everything after it.
Learning Progress and Achievement
This is the grade table. For Grades 4 to 10 the learning areas are Filipino, English, Mathematics, Science, Araling Panlipunan, GMRC or Values Education, EPP or TLE, and MAPEH.
Term grades
Each term grade is the transmuted grade from the class record, a whole number. Do not round again, and do not average the component scores yourself on the card. If the class record and the card disagree, the class record is right and the card is a copying error.
MAPEH and its two sub-rows
MAPEH has one row and two sub-rows: Music and Arts, and Physical Education and Health. The MAPEH term grade is the average of the two halves. DO 15 is explicit about passing: a multi-component area passes if its final grade, the average of its components, is 75 or higher, even when one component is below 75 (Annex D). So a learner with 72 in Music and Arts and 82 in PE and Health passes MAPEH. Our MAPEH computation walkthrough has the worked numbers.
Final grade and remarks
The final grade is the average of the three term grades, written as a whole number. The remark follows the descriptor table printed on the card.
| Final grade | Descriptor | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| 90–100 | Advancing | Passed |
| 80–89 | Benchmarking | Passed |
| 75–79 | Connecting | Passed |
| 65–74 | Developing | Failed |
| 0–64 | Emerging | Failed |
General average
The general average is the average of the final grades of the learning areas, as a whole number. Count MAPEH once, not three times. In senior high, DO 15 computes the general average by units. It appears only when every learning area has a final grade.
Attendance
The attendance table lists each month with the number of class days, days present, and days absent. DO 15 requires attendance on every term report (Sec. 70). Take the numbers from SF2 and total them monthly, not at the end of the term.
Two attendance rules affect more than the card. Teachers intervene with parents by the end of Term 1 or when a learner reaches about twelve absences, and absences above 20% of class days mean a failing grade and no credit unless justified, with the School Head able to grant documented exemptions (Annex D). Our guide to a remediation plan that actually runs covers what to do when those flags appear.
Comments and signatures
Teacher’s comments are written per term, and parents or guardians sign per term. Keep comments specific and useful: what the learner does well, one thing to work on, and how home can help. DO 15 asks for narrative remarks that are “brief, clear, and useful for parents or guardians” in the early grades, and the same standard serves every grade.
The ten-minute check before printing
- Every name and LRN matches SF1, character for character.
- Every term grade matches the class record, and none was rounded twice.
- MAPEH shows both sub-rows, and its row is their average.
- Final grades are whole-number averages of the terms.
- The general average counts each learning area once.
- Remarks match the descriptor table.
- Monthly attendance matches SF2.
- No descriptor from the old scale appears anywhere.
Letting the arithmetic take care of itself
Almost every error above is copying or rounding, which a tool should do for you. Skoolari’s DepEd mode builds the Learner’s Performance Report from your MATATAG class records, so every term grade is the one the class record computed. Subjects taught by other teachers can be typed in. It handles MAPEH sub-rows, the general average, monthly attendance, comments, and the certificate of transfer, and prints in the Annex G layout. Grade 1 teachers get the Learner’s Progress Report with the PACE Form. You still review every card and submit through your school’s official forms and systems. See the plans.
For the week when report cards, class records, and submissions all land together, keep the term grading week checklist open. If you are still choosing tools, our guide to choosing a class record app covers what to look for.
Related reading: converting grades between school scales.