How is Class Rank determined at your child's school?

Dragonflygarden
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:11:14 +0000

City public school
Class rank is by weighted GPA. All HS credit classes are counted even if they were taken in 7th grade. Honors and PreIB classes get a small weight (.0125) added (not averaged) on to the overall GPA; AP and IB get .03 added on to the overall GPA. So there is no penalty for taken a regular level class or free period except for not getting the small addition to overall GPA.

The top 10 students last year and this year are all IB due to all the weighted classes. DD has 7 IB/AP classes so will have .21 added to her GPA this semester alone. Highest class GPA right now is probably around a 4.6 but will be over 5.0 by graduation.