Class Rank - 'Splain it to me

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socal78

socal78

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I just found out my boy's class rank is "1 out of 663" students. What does it really mean, though?

I never paid attention to this kind of stuff when I was in school. I Googled but get the feeling the definition is inconsistent. Like at one school I think it said it can mean being in that percentile (having multiple people in a percentile??) While at others, it could literally mean being #1, for ex if there were 500 kids and each kid was given a number from 1 to 500. It's not really important to me what it stands for but I just want to get a better idea of what it actually means. Does class rank calculation vary from district-to-district or school-to-school? If so, how is it typically done around here? (That makes me sound like a newcomer but I'm actually from here!)
 
SoCal said:
I just found out my boy's class rank is "1 out of 663" students. What does it really mean, though?

I never paid attention to this kind of stuff when I was in school. I Googled but get the feeling the definition is inconsistent. Like at one school I think it said it can mean being in that percentile (having multiple people in a percentile??) While at others, it could literally mean being #1, for ex if there were 500 kids and each kid was given a number from 1 to 500. It's not really important to me what it stands for but I just want to get a better idea of what it actually means. Does class rank calculation vary from district-to-district or school-to-school? If so, how is it typically done around here? (That makes me sound like a newcomer but I'm actually from here!)
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It's not a percentile; it's a rank.  If it were the olympics, he would be gold medalist.  The rank is just preliminary, however.  As a rising sophomore, he only has one year under his belt and I'm sure there are many others who also got straight A's during freshman year and therefore he is probably tied with them for first.

As they progress through high school, the wheat will get separated from the chaff and there will be more stratification, especially as they move through AP level coursework, because bonus points will come into play (kind of like how Simone Biles falls on the balance beam yets still manages to medal).

 
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