5451 - ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
The Board of Education values excellence and wishes to inculcate in students the desire to do their best in all things. It shall be the policy of this Board, therefore, to recognize outstanding academic accomplishment.
The Board authorizes the recognition of the following achievements:
At the end of each school year or semester:
The high school graduate with the highest academic average.
The high school graduate with the second highest academic average.
Students demonstrating excellence in curricular and co-curricular activities will also be appropriately recognized as determined by the building principal and staff.
The high school principal shall develop procedures for recognition of academic excellence which include:
a method of computing academic average which is fairly administered and considers no factors other than the student’s achievement;
the public recognition in suitable fashion of students so honored by the Board;
the preparation and presentation of appropriate certificates to students recognized by the Board;
the cut off time for determining the GPA to be used for the selection of this academic recognition shall be after the completion of the third grading period annually.