In public High Schools, they usually have a “parent portal” where parents can check grades that are posted shortly after assignments or tests are completed.
Do boarding schools have this? Do you find out about grades regularly, or have to wait until end of term?
My kids’ school did not use one. Grades came out 6 times - mid-term and end of each term.
Grier School has it. Grade Reports comes seven times per year.
At NMH, we get midterm and end of term grades and comments. You should have an advisor who can answer any questions as the term progresses, if you’re not getting the info you want from your child. I expect mine to give me a head’s up before there are any surprises, but expect him to handle what he needs to.
At Andover, there is no parent portal for access to grades on an ongoing basis. I believe the assumption is that students handle grade concerns for themselves. There are midterm grades and comments provided and then final comments and grades after each term. So parents get updated information available 6 times per year.
^Same at SPS.
Choate has a parent portal. You can see grades and read teachers’ reports three times a year, after they are released at the end of each term.
One of the nice things about sending your kiddo to BS is NOT being able to check on grades and assignments – the day-to-day of academics is between your child and his/her teachers and advisor. If something goes seriously off the rails, the advisor will give you a call after a remediation plan is already in place, but monitoring academic progress on a micro level is no longer your job. 
SPS has a parent portal like @ChoatieMom describes but none of that real-time reporting like our public school has. My kids hated that in middle school as parents usually found out the grades before the kids did!
MX has a parent portal and it used “to communicate student grades”… however, we haven’t used it yet so its unclear if its only final/midterm grades that are posted or its on an ongoing basis…
to paraphrase skimom: “I didn’t take the test, so why would I check the grade?”
No news is good news…
I get it…just have had “Parent Portal” in public middle and HS so I’m used to real-time data without necessarily having to ask my kid. In public school, I believe it is necessary. In the prep/bs model, it may not be, since it is a different environment and the advisor is involved (vs. a school counselor with way too many students and also college counseling on their plate, that the student rarely sees).
Agreed with two kids in public school I do miss the instant gratification (well…so far) of knowing grades. At DD’s school there are mid term and final grades so six times per year.
My older kid is in public school and I definitely had to get used to not having a parent portal. Now I find it to be quite freeing and actually stopped checking my older kid’s portal so frequently!
I guess I’m more like @skieurope’s mom than I realized. I never checked the parent portal in public school. But I do check the Mercersburg website a lot to see if there are new pictures…
@twinsmama, I still love the photos, and I don’t have a kid in the school!
Mercersburg does not have a portal, but sends progress reports every 3 weeks the student’s first year, and 2 a term thereafter (unless your kid is “on progress reports”, and you continue to get them more frequently, due to less-than-stellar performance/effort). I, too, troll the website for pix. Sometimes I find one! Sometimes, like recently, a friend who is friends with the parent of a girl at the school, will send me a pic from Instagram on DS and his girlfriend at a recent dance. Mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do.
Hill has online portal that, like most others, post grades 6 times a year. I usually figure no news is good news, too, so I don’t worry. Much.
Solebury has it. We get midterm, end of term grades and comments like some other schools
The typical boarding school grades thing is midterm (advisory) grades, and a full report at end of term. The good part is that you also usually get very long and detailed writeups as to what your kid does well/can do better.
It makes for a very surprising review at term end. And you never know what it will be until you read it. HAHA.