| Purpose
The Board of Education acknowledges the usefulness of a system
of computing grade point averages and class ranking for secondary
graduates to inform students, parents and others of their relative
academic placement among their peers under relatively similar circumstances.
Authority
- The Board of Education directs that the Superintendent of Schools
establish and maintain a system of class ranking, by grade point
average, for students in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 which insures,
at the least:
| a. |
all students shall be ranked in their grade |
| b. |
class rank shall be computed by the final grade in subjects
for which credit is awarded |
| c. |
any two or more students whose computed grade point averages
are identical shall be given the same rank. The rank of the
student who immediately follows a tied position will be determined
by the number of students preceding him/her and not by the
rank of the person preceding him/her. |
- In recognition of the heavier burden of certain work, grade point
averages shall be weighted by awarding extra credit for each Honors
or Advanced Placement course.
- A student’s grade point average and rank in class shall
be entered on his/her record and shall be subject to the Board of
Education’s policy on release of student records.
Responsibility
- The Board of Education further directs that the Superintendent
of Schools, in cooperation with appropriate administrators and teachers,
develop procedures for the computation of grade point averages and
the assignment of rank in class to implement this policy.
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