Exact class rank – and valedictorians and salutatorians – will become a thing of the past when this year’s freshmen graduate in 2029.
Poudre School District Superintendent Brian Kingsley made the decision to move to a decile ranking system, in which students will be grouped by GPA in 10 equally divided sections after a committee of counselors from PSD schools presented their proposed changes to the school board this summer.
“We have students that are so stressed out about trying to get to the top that they’re like, panicking, ‘Oh my gosh, like, I got an 87 in college trig, what am I gonna do?’ And it’s like, no, that’s a really good grade. And it’s like, ‘No, but then I’m going to fall out of, you know, the top three,’” said Fossil Ridge High School counselor Chris Savage, a member of the committee…