Many of the good students take advanced classes at community college. But the high school does not consider the GPA of community college as high school GPA. what is the value of high school GPA than?
The “value” of a the HS GPA is that is represents courses taken in HS, with other high schoolers.
Not sure what your point is?
Colleges get the transcript for the college classes and can weigh that as they wish.
And many HSs Do use the GPA of DE courses in their HS GPA.
^^And many don’t. 
Including college courses in HS GPA will only further confusion the HS GPA calculation. How do you weight the college class, how do you compare Sociology 101 taken at the local CC vs Physics 1 for Engineers taken that the Engineering school across town, with Genetics taken at the state flagship. All have very different difficulties and grading patterns.
You need to check with your guidance counselor at your HS to find the policy at your school. Regardless of if the grades get factored into the GPA, colleges will see the transcript and know the grades. And a number of colleges re-calculate GPA based on their own parameters (ex. academic courses only).
We have a handful of DE classes at our high school - they are taught by high school teachers, but Syracuse U. also gives credit. (I don’t understand the arrangement we are nowhere near Syracuse.) In any event they are given the same weighting as AP courses. After all in theory AP courses are also college level courses taught to kids who are ready for college level material.
I’ve always thought it was a bit silly to worry about things that are beyond your control. You are unlikely to get your school to change their system (whatever it is) in time to have any effect on your child. Though obviously if it’s a really stupid system it might be worth fighting for future kids.
This whole “good students take classes at comm college” is pretty classist. It assumes a nearby comm college and it assumes a student with his own car to get there and back.
^^It also assumes they live in CA, where there are many excellent CCs. Many other parts of the country aren’t so lucky.
This really isn’t a problem. Your kid submits a college transcript that shows the college grades. Admissions sees it all. Maybe your kid will also have recommendations from college teachers.
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College admissions officers are not dumb. They can and often do recalculate the GPA’s from HS transcripts
The VALUE of taking College level classes, and doing well in them, while in HS shows that the student is able to do college level work.
Until I came to CC, I didn’t even know about dual enrollment. I always assumed if the student ran out of classes at their high school, and he or she took courses at a local college, there would be a high school transcript and a college transcript. In applying to colleges, the student would submit both the high school transcript and the college transcript independently. I never realized or even thought of having the college grades roll into the high school GPA. By taking more advanced coursework outside the high school curriculum, the student shows he/she is capable of doing coursework in a college setting.
I don’t know about others but I found taking Biology at the local university as a high school senior - a lecture class with 500 students, and a lab of 25 students very different from taking any class,no matter what level, in high school.
My daughter is taking her 3rd and 4th year foreign language (Spanish) classes through the community college system because she was out of room in her schedule (she is part of a humanities block that takes up an elective space along with choir). Our school district imports the CC grades back into her high school transcript at the equivalent course that they were considered for dual enrollment. I’m glad that she had this option so that she could stay with the fine arts classes that are important to her while fulfilling the foreign language courses that many schools require for admissions. I also like that all of her coursework will be listed in one place (her HS transcript) and she won’t necessarily have to reference the community college records as well.
our HS is different. all my son’s CC grades count toward his HS GPA. they are considered Honors classes.