<p>Our HS does not include PE in the GPA calculation. However AP classes and honors classes get a 10 and 5 point boost in the weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Regarding grade inflation, I think our HS has effectively resisted this trend. I'll offer a few statistics. During the past 5 years no student has graduated with a 100+ WGPA. Our school does limit the number of AP a student may take(3 junior and senior year-none soph-frosh year). But that still allows students to full the remainder of the schedule with mostly honors(+5) courses. The Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society requires students to have a 95+ wgpa in at least three math courses including precalc. Typically less than 5% qualify and in my son's class the %age was 3.2%. Of the 36 students in the APCalc classes only 5 had an unweighted final average of 90+ going into finals week and quite a few had unweighted averages of less than 80. However 66% got grades of 4 or 5 on the AP exam vs a national average in 2004 of 44.12.</p>
<p>I do know that the Guidance Office does provide a supplemental statistical report of grade distributions with its school profile so that our students are not at a disadvantage with adcom's.</p>