Modifying the 'Grade Book' template to have a Report for each student

The grade book template looks like it could save me from buying Bento 2 and look prettier in the process. However, I might need to get some applescript help.
The default template has a Report page, and it includes one student. The included comment says to change the students name to change the values.
I want to have one of those reports for each student automatically generated and printable so that I can give them to the students at the end of the term.
Obviously, I don't want to generate each report myself (320 students ... not a fun way to spend a day). Applescript seems like the solution, but I don't know how to use it.
Can anyone lend a hand?

Not seeing exactly what you want it's hard to be sure what solution may work - fortunately there are others here that know far more than me.
I don't know how charts and graphs are moved to Pages, but if it cut and paste, I suspect it would be unlikely that you could do it with charts or graphs based on individual students. If it can be done with a mail merge, maybe it could.
But I'm thinking a different approach may be possible if the only charts or graphs you use are to show the class info and mail merge the individual student data.
Let me see if I can explain what I'm thinking of:
You mail merge info like scores for each test and/or just the average of each grade category, plus the overall average and personal comments.
As part of the pages document that is the same for every student, you could put the charts or graphs in for the class as a whole. For example, if you wanted the student to see the class average for each test to compare to their own score, you could have a graph for that CLASS info and then they could look at their mail merged info to see how they compared. It just wouldn't be part of the same graph.
I think this would let you have the same info as in the template, but structured a bit differently.
You may also be able to reproduce everything from individual tables into one big table - more than just normal summary info - and work from that. Basically it would be a table of just formulas pulling in from the other tables.
This is something I'm looking at for some of my projects, but I haven't worked out the details yet.
Good luck.

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