<p>Great questions!</p>
<p>I think the answer to your first question is “the higher of the two grades”, but I’m not sure. I’m planning on reaching out to the HS guidance counselor for more info.</p>
<p>As far as the transcript, my understanding is that he’ll have 2 middle school grades (Algebra and another class) on his HS transcript, but they aren’t labeled as such. They are simply listed as 9th grade classes. Now, I’m assuming that admissions staff will be able to look at it and figure out that he didn’t really take 9 classes in 9th. My understanding is that if he repeated a high school class in summer school, both grades would be on the transcript, but repeating a class taken in middle school results in the previous grade disappearing.</p>