Class Rank
5430 CLASS RANK
Rank is calculated at the end of the junior year and senior mid-year. Pupils must be in attendance in district high schools for at least two years by the end of junior year in order to be officially ranked.
Sophomores who have been allowed to accelerate, pending results of the HSPA, and accumulate sufficient credits to graduate one year earlier than usual, will also be ranked.
Class rank includes grades from all subjects taken at and within the walls of either district high school (including annexes.) While pupils may be granted high school credit toward graduation for courses taken at colleges and other institutions of higher learning, grades for such courses will not be calculated into class rank. Additionally, the courses Math HSPA Skills 1, 2 and 3, English for Today 1, 2, 3 and 4, and Community Service will not be calculated into class rank.
Counselors will use the grade point averages for pupils who have less than two years in attendance at district high schools to provide an equated rank if requested to do so for college admissions purposes only.
Rank in class is determined by the total number of quality points earned by a pupil.
All courses considered “honors” courses will receive the weighted quality of 1.0 as indicated below. Advanced Placement courses will receive a weighted quality of 1.5.
The following courses will be considered honors courses:
English All courses entitled “Honors”
Mathematics All courses entitled “Honors”
Science All courses entitled “Honors” plus Human
Anatomy & Physiology and
Microbiology/Genetics
Social Studies All courses entitled "Honors
World Language Spanish as a Native Language 3 and 4
Business All courses entitled “Honors”
Technology All courses entitled “Honors”
Vocational All courses entitled “Honors”
The following chart indicates quality point values awarded to final marks:
|
Final Marks |
Range of Quality Points |
Honors Weighted Quality Points |
Advanced Placement Weighted Quality Points |
|
|
|
|
|
|
97-99 |
4.3 |
5.3 |
5.8 |
|
93-96 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
5.5 |
|
90-92 |
3.7 |
4.7 |
5.2 |
|
87-8 |
3.3 |
4.3 |
4.8 |
|
83-86 |
3.0 |
4.0 |
4.5 |
|
80-82 |
2.7 |
3.7 |
4.2 |
|
77-79 |
2.3 |
3.3 |
3.8 |
|
73-76 |
2.0 |
3.0 |
3.5 |
|
70-72 |
1.7 |
2.7 |
3.2 |
|
68-69 |
1.3 |
2.3 |
2.8 |
|
65-67 |
1.0 |
2.0 |
2.5 |
Pupils who have been classified within the Special Services Department are not ranked, since earning a high school diploma depends on successfully completing their Individual Education Program (IEP.).
Bilingual pupils who do not have official high school records are given a rank equal to that which they would have earned had they been in high school for four years.
Physical education and health education grades are combined and the average of the two is included in computing class rank.
Summer school grades from an accredited summer school are included in computing class rank.
Failing grades are also included in computing class rank.
“Dropped” courses shall have no effect on GPA/class rank, if dropped during the school-sanctioned “Add-Drop” time period. Courses “dropped” after that time period shall fall into the “Withdraw Passing” or “Withdraw Failing” categories described below.
“Withdraw Passing", in which a pupil has a passing grade at the time of the withdrawal from the course, will have no effect on GPA/class rank. The course will appear on the final transcript as WP.
"Withdraw Failing", in which a pupil has a failing grade at the time of withdrawal from the course, will have an effect on GPA/class rank. If the pupil substitutes a related course (e.g. one math class for another, the failing grade will carry over to the new course, will be averaged into the grade for the new course, and will be calculated into the GPA for class rank. If the pupil merely drops the failing course, that failing grade will be calculated into the GPA for class rank.
In the event of a tie for class rank, preference will be given to the pupil who has earned the greater number of credits in the Union City School System.
Adopted: 26 July 2005