GPA Calcuations

[LPSD Registrar]

Hi Everyone!

LPSD is currently re-evaluating how GPA is calculated, including which courses are counted and when they are factored in. We’re interested in learning more about how other districts across the state approach this.

• Does your district include college courses (dual credit) in GPA calculations?
• Does your district Pass/Fail courses in GPA calculations?
• What is your district's current GPA Calculation Method?

We’d appreciate any insights you can share. Thank you!

Best,

Cassie Broscious

Lake and Peninsula School District

Registrar/Student Data/Federal Programs

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[Jamie Burgess]

Dual credit courses are included.  P/F are not included.  Other than that, it's a straightforward method - A = 4 points, etc.  We do not currently do weighted grades.

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Thanks.

Jamie S. Burgess

Superintendent, Nome Public Schools
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[Kyle Schneider]

I’ll just add that PowerSchool’s “Weighted” GPA refers to factoring varying credit amounts for each grade, not weighted as in “5 point scale”. If you’re using Added Value for that, you would want to use the default “Added Value” calculation.

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[Robin Gage]

I think most districts give one extra GPA point for college classes or AP classes. In my previous district, we would add 1 to the GPA points (making A = 5, B =4, etc). In my current district, we add the extra GPA point in the ‘added value’ field, and that is referenced in the GPA calculation.

 

Pass/Fail classes have always been excluded from GPA calculations from what I’ve seen. I think this is pretty standard. My advice would be don’t use P/F if you want to award GPA points, anyone who gets a transcript with a P/F grade will not put any GPA points in when they manually enter that grade.

 

We’ve got many GPA calculations that we use; some are grade specific, some are term specific (honor roll), some are simple, and some are weighted. The most important GPA calculation is the one used for HS students and that appears on transcripts and we use a weighted calculation that looks like this.

 

round((gpa_sum((gpa_gpapoints()+gpa_addedvalue())*gpa_potentialcredit())/sum(gpa_potentialcredit())),2)

 

 

GPA is something you want to set up once and document how you did it, like detailed notes explaining in plain language what is going on and which students/grade levels/classes they apply to. You can go months or even years without looking at them so when you come back to them it is helpful to have something more than just what you see in PowerSchool.

 

Good luck!

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Galena City School District

 

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