<p>I can’t remember a year when my high school had only one valedictorian. It was always everyone who had a perfect weighted GPA. During my time there, the number ranged from 2 to 7.
Since it was based on weighted GPA, there was some gaming of the system involved. A girl who was pretty much uniformly recognized as the smartest in our class was salutatorian because she took a non-Honors elective when she could have taken study hall and stayed Val. Nonetheless, using unweighted GPA for rank would have been ridiculous.</p>