Overview
- The Court denied an appeal from Colegio El Roble and left SEP’s Acuerdo 10/09/03 in effect across public and private schools.
- The policy removes minimum attendance as a condition to pass and ends automatic failure for not clearing every subject.
- Students advance automatically in preschool and first grade, need a minimum grade of six in grades two to six, and in secondary can move up with up to four failed subjects through regularization.
- Minister Lenia Batres authored the opinion that the Plenary backed unanimously, while Minister Giovanni Figueroa voiced concern over dropping attendance requirements.
- The ruling covers more than 23 million basic‑education students and mirrors approaches in Denmark and Finland that rely less on numeric grades.