Beginning with courses taken between the eighth and ninth grade, all high school courses, including correspondence, night school, college courses taken for dual credit, credit-by-exam, and summer school, are averaged in the class rank with the exception of student assistant, local credit, and courses taken under the pass/fail option. High school courses taken by seventh or eighth-grade students and completed by the end of the eighth-grade year will not count in class rank with the exceptions of Geometry, Biology, Art I and the third or higher levels of a foreign language. Rank will be determined by grade point averages (GPA) of the students. GPA and class rank are calculated in the summer after students complete the ninth and tenth grades. Estimated class rankings are determined at the end of the junior year and the first semester of the senior year for the express purpose of college entrance requirements. Another ranking is performed at the end of the third grading period to identify summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude graduates..
