BCLUW will phase out high school class ranking

In conjunction with a wider trend around the state and the country, BCLUW will phase out class rankings beginning with next year’s incoming freshmen.
           
BJ Hoffman, who serves as a Hardin County supervisor and has a son attending BCLUW, previously spoke before the school board about why he believes the ranking is obsolete and how it has hampered students seeking financial aid, and he wrote the board another letter before its monthly meeting last Thursday. Iowa’s regents’ universities are abandoning the system and moving toward admissions processes that prioritize grade point average, community service and SAT and ACT scores.
           
Superintendent Ben Petty explained that several large high schools (including those in Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City) have already done away with class rank as the consensus shifts toward “standards-based learning” and more holistic criteria.
           
Under the motion that passed by a 4-0 vote (Adam Probasco, Eric Engle and Todd Pekarek were absent), incoming freshmen at BCLUW will no longer be ranked according to their academic performance, but the sophomore, junior and senior classes will still operate under the current system until they graduate. 
 
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