Schools

School Officials Consider New GPA System

Under the new system, all grades, regardless of class difficulty, would be of uniform value.

School officials are considering a new approach to grade point average at the , which would align all grades regardless of class difficulty.

The high school currently values grades in honors level classes higher than grades in lower-level classes, according to Boston.com. Under the new system, an A in either class would be worth the same.

Superintendent Bella T. Wong told Boston.com that the change is in the “discussion phase.”

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“I think it’s healthy for the community to look at policies and evaluate them from time to time,” she said in the story. “It really just came up this year.”


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